Happy Halloween Treats from Reading Terminal Market

Happy Snow-loween!

Yesterday's winter storm in October threw everybody for a loop, but if you fell behind on your Halloween plans, fear not!  We spotted plenty of seasonal treats on offer at the Reading Terminal Market and there's no snow in today's forecast, so....

Start at the Pennsylvania General Store...
These trick or treat bags will hold all the goodies you can carry....

Have fun filling them with these goodies....

Flying Monkey Patisserie's pumpkin whoopie pies are certainly worthy of their name...don't miss their other autumn treats.

Photo by Albert Yee

Chocolate by Mueller offers an eerie array of creepy chocolate organs--hearts and brains to name but two.

Chocolate organs not your cauldron of witches brew? Don't miss their candy apples:

 All that shopping may make you hungry....we recommend Molly Malloy's pumpkin pancakes. 

Isn't carb loading recommended for long distance runners?  Trick or treating can be something of a marathon.
And if your'e not  'pumpkined out' by Tuesday, Metropolitan Bakery starts featuring pumpkin cranberry as their bread of the month for November.   Count on us to be first in line!

Happy Halloween!

The Apple of His Eye

So Michele is obviously the apple of Barack's eye, evidenced by the fact that while at work he thought of her and brought her home a treat--four Gala apples, to be exact, from the Fair Food Farmstand.  Wasn't that the coolest thing that he stopped at Our Market?

Which brings us to this week's contest:  Write a caption for this photo--be clever, be witty, and remember our overall theme:  food and love.  Email entries by Wednesday, October 6.  Winner will be announced Friday October 8.  And yes, you will win a prize!  Here it is...a book about Inter Courses (We mean entrees and appetisers -- this is PG-rated after all.)

President Obama's offering got us thinking about spouses and gifts.  We heartily encourage gifts from spouses, and of course we love apples, but if our spouses hoped to woo us, well, a bag of apples just wouldn't do the trick.  There are many other delectables that would serve their purposes better, especially in the culinary Mecca of Reading Terminal Market.

Here are our top five:
1.  Chocolates by Mueller's Dark Chocolate Cashew Turtles
2.  Cheese (Tallegio, Pecorino, and Belladonna, perhaps)  from Salumeria or Downtown Cheese
3.  Red Velvet Cupcakes from Flying Monkey
4.  Pretzels from Miller's Twist
5.  Fried Chicken from Delilah's



What are your go-to foods when trying to pave the road to your beloved's heart?