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Chili Mac Pepper Jacks are a super fun and warming dinner for your Halloween night and all of your Halloween parties! creative, festive and fun!
Hello and welcome to my annual Pepper Jack recipe!
This is something I look forward to each year, and I know some of you do too.
(See my Pepper Jack Recipe Collection here.)
This year, my Pepper Jacks …
Stuffed Pepper Jacks Recipe Collection – all kinds of vegan and gluten free ideas for breakfast, lunch and dinner on Halloween!
not a pepper fan? Peep our Deep Dish Pizza Pot Pies with a familiar Halloween face…
The first year I made these Pepper Jacks, they quickly went viral with the help of Paul Reubens.
Yep – PeeWee Herman shared my jacks on his Facebook page, and we broke the internet. They also snagged third place in a contest back in 2011.
I have fun with these every year, sometimes choosing a scary type face, other years opting for more… friendly? Most of these recipes (linked below each photo) are lunch and dinner friendly, and we have one breakfast (or breakfast for dinner?) jack.
I’d enjoy ANY of these for breakfast…
Pepper Jacks with Black Pepper Cheesy Mac and Broccoli
Asparagus Mushroom Scramble Pepper Jacks
Carrot Ginger Quinoa Pepper Jacks
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Frito Pie Pepper Jacks – a fun and festive Halloween dinner that is easy, tasty, and will fuel you for the whole evening of Halloween fun.
Here we are approaching Halloween again, in my eighth year of blogging.
I continue to carve these Pepper Jacks each year despite 1) not having children, and 2) everyone and their dog makes them now.
Yep.
Rosemary dachshund carved one of these.
Okay maybe the dog didn’t carve one, but these Pepper Jacks may have …
Asparagus Mushroom Scramble Pepper Jacks – a fun, fast and flavorful Halloween breakfast – or breakfast for dinner – stuffed into some Silly Spooky Pepper Jacks.
This morning I have for you an incredibly flavorful and incredibly easy scramble recipe – perfect any time of day and any time of year, or for Halloween breakfast if you want to stuff it into some fun Pepper Jacks.
I know.
Two Pepper Jack recipes this year?
Heh.
I may have a third before this month is up.
Back to this scramble, though.
My usual scramble has creamy cashew milk, cheesy nutritional yeast… I pared this way down to the true basics, plus a couple of …
Chipotle Coconut Pepper Jacks – do not let the spooky pepper faces keep you from tasting the flavorful fillings inside, protein packed and perfect before a night of Trick or Treats!
This is Halloween, This is Halloween. Halloween! Halloween!
This year I am back with another Pepper Jack that Jack Skellington would want to be friends with. Spooky faces on The Jacks this year – after several years of Pepper Jack carving, I am getting more detailed.
The Orange Pepper Jack is my favorite this year…
Isn’t he fun?
This Chipotle Coconut mixture is perfect by itself – I have enjoyed a bowl for breakfast before. This recipe fills approximately six bell peppers, depending on size of pepper. I usually make this filling, fill a couple peppers for dinner, then enjoy the leftovers as is. Yum.
Also, I have made a note about tasting the Chipotle Coconut mixture before filling your Pepper Jacks – the …
Jalapeno Popper Pepper Jacks – everyone’s favorite party appetizer stuffed into a delightfully ghoulish Pepper Jack O Lantern… perfect for kids of ALL ages!
This Is Halloween, This Is Halloween! Halloween Halloween, This Is Halloween!
Long time readers know my favorite time of year is autumn – I love what October smells like – and that I love Halloween. I tend to get creative with the foods this time of year.
The Halloweenies in this house are looking forward to their costumes:
Jailbird Dog
Skeleton Dachshund
Remember Basil’s costumes? This is Rosemary’s first Halloween with us – photos of her costumes coming soon…
You may also remember my pepper jacks – carrot ginger quinoa pepper jacks and the year before that, pizza polenta pepper jacks. They won an award, they caught the eye of Pee Wee Herman and went viral, they are dinner year round in this house. Yep, carved jack o lanterns included.
I make the …
Pizza Pepper Jacks – super fun Pepper Jack O Lanterns filled with everyones favorite flavors – pizza! great for pre trick or treating, and for kids of all ages!
(See our entire Pepper Jack Recipe Collection here.)
The other day, I received a major indicator of the arrival of fall and the arrival of Halloween – the annual email announcing the Corn Maize!
There is a haunted maize and a ‘normal’ one – this year the design incorporates Portlandia, our statue, with Portlandia the awesome television series.
They put a bird on it.
As our evenings get cooler, this is also when I start carving bell peppers – practice for the pumpkins to come.
Who doesn’t like pizza flavor?
I made these “pepper jacks” for something special – the …
Carrot Ginger Quinoa Pepper Jacks – delightfully ghoulish Pepper Jacks – jack o lanterns carved from peppers. kids of ALL AGES will love these!
See more Pepper Jacks here – Pepper Jack Recipe Collection.
This is Halloween, this is Halloween. Halloween, Halloween!
That song will be in my head all day now…
You know we love our stuffed peppers, right?
Today I have another stuffed pepper, and another play on words. These jack o lantern peppers are fun (I make them every year), but the new filling is what I’m excited about!
Doesn’t that one look like a skeleton?
So. This filling. I started by…
