Happy Halloween! What’s scarier than sea monsters when your dining aboard? Not much!
Ingredients:
1 cup ketchup
1/4 cup grated horseradish
2 Tbsp. lemon juice
1 Tbsp. hot sauce
1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
Serve with:
Seaweed or Japanese Seaweed salad (optional for decoration)
24 pieces or more of assorted shellfish
(Alaskan, Blue or Stone crab claws, shrimp, whole squid or baby octopus, shell-on mussels, clams, oysters, whole lobster, etc.)
Directions:
Stir sauce ingredients in a small bowl until mixed well; cover and refrigerate until chilled
(about 2 hours). To serve, lay ice on a shallow serving platter and put strands of seaweed over the ice.
Place the bowl of cocktail sauce in the middle of the platter, and display the shellfish, claws, and tentacles around.
Other Halloween favorites:
Haunted Pumpkin Bars
Black and Blue Petrified Cheese Log
Vampire Blood Chili
Sea Monsters with Hellish Cocktail Sauce
Bloody Mary’s
By Lori Ross, Southern Boating October 2017