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Butternut Squash Dessert Recipe: Squash and Apples 3 Ways

Deborah Smith, Executive Editor
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This Butternut Squash dessert recipe is so versatile, I think you could actually serve it a forth way; as a side.  But for our purposes here, we’re talking dessert and breakfast.

Looking back on the last three years of posts, I realized something. I am obviously a bit obsessed with Butternut Squash.  I’ve posted recipes for Butternut Squash Soup, Chili, Butternut Squash and Asparagus pasta and even Butternut Squash Dip.  The one thing we’ve been a little lax on however, is dessert.

Now when you Google “Butternut Squash Dessert” you end up with 596,000 results.  There are pies, cakes, tarts, souffles and the list goes on and on.  I wanted something incredibly simple and relatively healthy.  I found my answer on a website called DianasKitchen.com. The only tweak I made was to add chopped pecans to the topping. Adding an oatmeal crumble on top would be very nice too.  Be sure to use some nice baking apples (Cameo, Cortland, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Jonathan, Newton Pippin, Pink Lady, Rome) for that  “apple pie” result. The original recipe doesn’t specify what type of apple.

This morning, with half a dish of leftovers, Peter decided the leftovers might go very nicely in his oatmeal.  While I thought that was a great idea, I opted for something a little more decadent; crepes filled with ricotta and our lovely baked butternut squash and apples.

The original recipe is very healthy, a little too healthy for this family, so for dessert we opted for a little ice cream compliment. It’s all good. This is one recipe that I really think you could dress up and down and around in a million ways.  I hope you’ll try it and tell us about your unique variations.

INGREDIENTS

* 1 small butternut squash, about 2 pounds

* 2 apples, cored, peeled, sliced

* 1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed

* 1/4 cup cold butter

* 1 tablespoon flour

* 1 teaspoon salt

* 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

* 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/4 cup chopped pecans

DIRECTIONS

Peel squash, scoop out seeds, and cut in small pieces.

Place squash and apple slices in oblong baking dish (7×11-inch). Blend remaining ingredients with fork or pastry cutter until crumbly. Distribute over squash and apple.  Sprinkle chopped pecans on top.

Cover and bake butternut squash casserole at 350° for about 45 to 50 minutes.
Butternut squash recipe serves 6 to 8.

Deborah Smith is the Founder and Executive Editor of jerseybites.com.  Launched in 2007 as a home for her growing collection of recipes, Jersey Bites soon grew into a hub for all things edible in the Garden State. Deborah is also the owner of Parents With Nannies, Inc. which operates a network of nanny employment websites established in 1999.  In her spare time, (Ha) she works as a Social Media consultant and speaker.  You can learn more about her services and marketing through social media on her blog www.DeborahLSmith.com

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Peel squash, scoop out seeds, and cut in small pieces.
Place squash and apple slices in oblong baking dish (7×11-inch). Blend remaining ingredients with fork or pastry cutter until crumbly.
Distribute over squash and apple.
Cover and bake butternut squash casserole at 350° for about 45 to 50 minutes.
Butternut squash recipe serves 6 to 8.

New Jersey’s Best Pies

Deborah Smith, Executive Editor
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We’re at it again, looking for your opinion on who makes the best in New Jersey.  This month we are looking for the best Pies just in time for Thanksgiving.

We will be selecting 5 of the top vote getters who will receive the coveted Jersey’s Best Jersey Bites Award and the license to publish the beautiful logo you see here wherever their hearts’ desire.  Maybe someone will even come up with a Jersey Bites Pie.  Oh, ho, now there’s an idea.

Polls close Friday, November 19th.  Please share this with your Friends on Facebook and Followers on Twitter.  And, if you are on your way out to sample some pie before voting, be sure and tell the nominees that they’re on the list.

Click here to take survey

Jacques Torres’ Amazing Chocolate Chip Cookies

Deanna Quinones
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Attending the 13th Annual Chocolate Show in New York has been a waking dream. Running Nov. 11 – 14th at the Metropolitan Pavilion, it is a truly eye-popping showcase of design, talent, and delish. More to come on what I’ve sampled and seen, but wanted to share a special recipe you chocolate lovers won’t want to miss.

Jacques Torres, the famed French chocolatier, may very well have created the best chocolate chip cookie ever. The recipe is not complicated, but it takes a little time. It’s worth every second. Enjoy!

Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies

as reprinted by the New York Times

Time: 45 minutes (for one 6-cookie batch), plus at least 24 hours’ chilling

2 cups minus 2 tablespoons (8 1/2 ounces) cake flour

1 2/3 cups (8 1/2 ounces) bread flour

1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/2 teaspoons coarse salt

2 1/2 sticks (1 1/4 cups) unsalted butter

1 1/4 cups (10 ounces) light brown sugar

1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (8 ounces) granulated sugar

2 large eggs

2 teaspoons natural vanilla extract

1 1/4 pounds bittersweet chocolate disks or fèves, at least 60 percent cacao content (Disks are sold at Jacques Torres Chocolate; Valrhona fèves, oval-shaped chocolate pieces, are at Whole Foods.)

Sea salt.

1. Sift flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Set aside.

2. Using a mixer fitted with paddle attachment, cream butter and sugars together until very light, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Stir in the vanilla. Reduce speed to low, add dry ingredients and mix until just combined, 5 to 10 seconds. Drop chocolate pieces in and incorporate them without breaking them. Press plastic wrap against dough and refrigerate for 24 to 36 hours. Dough may be used in batches, and can be refrigerated for up to 72 hours.

3. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a nonstick baking mat. Set aside.

4. Scoop 6 3 1/2-ounce mounds of dough (the size of generous golf balls) onto baking sheet, making sure to turn horizontally any chocolate pieces that are poking up; it will make for a more attractive cookie. Sprinkle lightly with sea salt and bake until golden brown but still soft, 18 to 20 minutes. Transfer sheet to a wire rack for 10 minutes, then slip cookies onto another rack to cool a bit more. Repeat with remaining dough, or reserve dough, refrigerated, for baking remaining batches the next day. Eat warm, with a big napkin.

Yield: 1 1/2 dozen 5-inch cookies.

Deanna Quinones is the Jersey Bites Regional Editor for Morris County. A freelance writer, blogger, and unrepentant chocolate addict, Deanna spent 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area where life was good and the burritos even better. She recently returned to the Garden State and now resides in Morristown, where she and her Texas-born/Jersey-raised/California-found husband are raising two wild and wonderful kids. An experienced book marketer, award-winning greeting card writer, and entertainment writing dabbler, Deanna can be reached at [email protected]. (photo credit Pete Genovese/The Star-Ledger)

Cranberries, the Pine Barrens and John “Peg Leg” Webb

Tom
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Photo By Scott O’Donnell

In the 1840’s in the small Pine Barrens town of Cassville, in Ocean County, NJ lived a 50 year old one legged School teacher who saw an opportunity, cranberries. John “Peg Leg” Webb was his name and cranberries became his game.

Mr. Webb tamed the wild perennial vine creating one of the first commercial cranberry operations in America. Webb’s fruit commanded top dollar, $50.00 a barrel from whaling ships in Philadelphia. Sailing ships took cranberries out to sea so the crew could snack upon the Vitamin C laden, scurvy preventing tart treats. Premium prices were paid for Webb’s quality, why did Webb’s barrels contain no bad berries? Well, the one legged Webb was unable to carry the barrels of cranberries down from the storage attic. So he simply tipped the barrels and let the berries bounce down the stairs. Webb had discovered that healthy cranberries bounced! Only the best cranberries made it to the bottom of the stairs, he had accidentally invented the “Bounce Board” still used today to determine Cranberry quality.

From this beginning grew a New Jersey industry that peaked in 1910 with 12,000 acres of Cranberry bogs. Today NJ ranks third in production with 3,600 acres, behind Massachusetts and Wisconsin.

More cranberry history and fun facts, from Ocean Spray.

Cranberry recipes from Piney Power.

Tom Kovacevich is in the wholesale fruit and vegetable business in Philadelphia. His company, TMK Produce, distributes top quality produce to retailers and food service companies up and down the east coast. In 2008, Tom started a blog at BestFruitNow.com as a way to share his thoughts on what fruits are best each month. Geared for consumers, BestFruitNow.com also offers tips on how to select and prepare the fruits being recommended. An avid cook, gardener and all around foodie, Tom regularly travels the world meeting with growers ever learning more about his passion for fresh produce.

Fast and Filling Turkey Soup-A Holiday Tradition

Beth
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I’ve always enjoyed fostering our family’s food traditions around the holidays. Thanksgiving would not be the same without John’s homemade apple pie, and my kids would disown me if the customary loaf of Irish Soda bread did not appear in their college mailboxes in March. As is the case with many families, our food traditions have provided a comforting and familiar ritual that we all cherish.

One of our favorite holiday season meals is the Fast and Filling Turkey Soup that I have been making for years on the day after Thanksgiving. The recipe originally appeared in either Family Circle or Women’s Day magazine. It’s easy, tasty, and not to be missed by my family. One year, we were visiting family members out of state and did not make our own turkey. With no leftover turkey meat to make the soup, it did not appear on our table on Black Friday that year. Oh, the weeping and gnashing of teeth that ensued! From that point forward, I always made sure to roast a turkey breast for the turkey meat, even if we were going to be out of town on Turkey Day.

Here is the recipe. I hope that you enjoy it, and that you will take some time to leave a comment below or on the Jersey Bites Facebook page about your family’s favorite holiday dish.

Fast and Filling Turkey Soup
¼ cup butter or margarine
3 medium celery ribs, diced
3 large carrots, sliced
2 small zucchini, sliced
1 large onion, diced
¼ teaspoon dried rosemary
¼ teaspoon dried thyme
6 cups water
2 envelopes instant chicken broth
¼ cup uncooked long grain rice
3 cups chopped cooked turkey
1/3 cup chopped fresh flat leaf parsley
Salt and pepper to taste

In 4 quart saucepan over medium heat, melt butter and add celery, carrots, zucchini, onion, rosemary and thyme. Cook 10 minutes, stirring frequently until vegetables are tender. Add water and the instant chicken broth and boil. Add rice and return to boil. Cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer 15 minutes. Add turkey and parsley-heat 10 minutes more. Add salt and pepper to taste and serve.

Note: you can make this using homemade turkey stock instead of the instant chicken broth by covering a turkey carcass with water and simmering with a little onion and celery.

Beth Christian subsisted primarily on cheeseburgers and liverwurst sandwiches during childhood and refused to try most new foods.  Her culinary horizons were expanded during her college days in Schenectady, New York, where she learned the joys of trying slow-simmered Italian dishes, Szechuan cuisine, and everything in between.  When not engaged in the practice of law in Monmouth County, Beth is busy scouting out interesting restaurants,  farmer’s markets and food purveyors near her home in Burlington County. Beth’s primary dining sidekick is her husband John, but she also enjoys having her daughter Meghan, son Michael and her wonderful friends come along for the ride. Email Beth at [email protected]

This is New Jersey: The Colors of Fall

Deborah Smith, Executive Editor
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Hurley Pond in Wall Township Photo by Carol Thornley

Swartzwood Lake Photo by Karen Manzi Jensen

Thank you to our Facebook Fans for submitting these beautiful photos.  If you haven’t done so already, join the fun with Jersey Bites on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/jerseybites.

“This is New Jersey” is our Saturday “way of life” feature bringing you images of New Jersey that may be new to you or at least a reminder of all that is wonderful about New Jersey.  We welcome submissions from photographers and amateur photographers, so please send us your photos.

5 Foodie Things To Do in Ocean County This November

John Fusco
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If you’re already in a tizzy about what to make for Thanksgiving…STOP! Before you get all worked up about side dishes and pie recipes, make sure you take some time for yourself this month. Here are some foodie ideas for you to enjoy…

* Even though it only started last year, Jersey Shore Restaurant Week has become a very fun and exciting restaurant event. Although most of the participating eateries are in Monmouth County, you also have locations in Toms River, Point Pleasant and Seaside Heights (just to name a few) that will also be offering a special menu. The special prix fixe menus will be available from November 5 to 14, and will be only $20.10 or $30.10, depending on the restaurant.

* Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson is trying a new wrinkle this fall: a food and wine event! The weekend of November 6 and 7 is Six Flags Grape Adventure (clever, huh). Enjoy tasting wines from a number of local wineries, and check out the battle for Jersey Shores’ Ultimate Chef. The safari will be open as well, so you can wine and dine with the animals. Mind you, serving alcohol to the animals is not recommended.

* For some of you, every day may be an Italian-kind of day. On November 12, Laurita Winery in New Egypt offers to you an Italian Night. The menu that night is inspired the northwestern Italian region of Lombardia – so out with the tomatoes and in with the butter! The fun starts at 7PM and is $49.95 per person.

* The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences is offering you the chance to eliminate the need to wash dishes. How is that possible? Simple: edible bowls! On November 15, take a class to learn how to make Chocolate Covered Pretzel Bowls from 6:30PM to 8:30PM. The cost of the class is $20, and only $10 for members of the foundation.

* If you want a more traditional cooking demonstration, Georgian Court University in Lakewood will be having The Fish & Seafood Show on November 15 (hmmm…a popular date) starting at 7PM. The cost of the class is $37 per person. Seating in limited, so you do need to call and reserve in advance. And if the class is sold out, there will be The Appetizer Show next month.

John and Lisa Howard-Fusco Regional Editors, Ocean County.  Although they and their two kids call Ocean County home, their John and Lisa Are Eating in South Jersey food blog has them traveling all over the southern region of New Jersey.  They and their blog have been mentioned in articles by the New York Times, Courier-Post, nj.com and njmonthly.com.  Lisa has written articles and reviews for South Jersey magazine as well as for Ed Hitzel’s Restaurant Newsletter and Hitzel’s Restaurant Magazine.  And John could use a Gaetano’s cheesesteak right about now.

Ride to Feed the Masses

Elizabeth Norton
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Motorcycles
On Saturday, the Cape May County Chapter of the Red Knights hosted a ride from Main Street Cycle in Cape May Court House to Natali Vineyard where they served pulled pork platters to raise money for local food banks. The club also collected non-perishable food items to donate. It was a gorgeous day for a ride and I christened myself as a real biker by taking my first (and hopefully only) fall turning onto a gravel road. The bruises are ugly, but I was fortunately distracted by the tunes of Geno White playing at the back of the tent and all the amazing food.

Vendors

The highly talented chefs from Copper Fish were in attendance serving mouthwatering crabcake sliders with a chipotle remoulade. Pensari “Old World Sausage Bread” sounds like something out of the medieval era, but their sausage bread will warm your bones on a chilly autumn afternoon.

We also enjoyed Cinnabon and a little shopping through handmade jewelry, feather hairpieces, cigars and gourmet oils.

Wines

Natali served up glasses and bottles of their award winning wines including 100% NJ Blueberry, Plum Wine and Meadow’s Edge- my personal favorite. They brewed a peach sangria especially for this event.

The vineyard was packed with people enjoying good food and good music all for the good cause of helping those less fortunate. It’s especially important to think of the hungry as the holidays approach. For information about how you can help local food pantries, please visit The United Way of Cape May County.

Alison Heller is the Jersey Bites Cape May County Regional Editor. She also writes for Examiner.com and TrendHunter.com. She grew up on the beach in Wildwood Crest and currently works in advertising. After earning her Master of Fine Arts in English and Creative Writing in New York City (a place that was essentially Food Rehab), she stopped putting ketchup on everything and started experimenting with flavors. She loves sushi and cupcakes, sushi that looks like cupcakes, but never cupcakes that look like sushi. www.superalzy.com

November Food & Drink Fun in Morris County

Deanna Quinones
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What to do once the costumes parties are over? Here are a handful of delectable events coming up in November around Morris County:

In celebration of their 25th anniversary, Morris Habitat for Humanity is hosting a Chocolate Tasting on November 4 at ReStore in Mine Hill. Enjou Chocolate, J. Emanuel, Enchanted Chocolate, Chocolate Fountain Fantasies, The Candy Shop of Harding, Mara’s Country Desserts, Sugar Mommy Cupcakes, Dove Chocolate Discoveries, and Sugar and Spice will be on hand with delectable samples while the Sweet Adelines serenade. Event runs 6-8pm. Tickets are only $10; visit the Morris Habitat website to purchase:

If your humanitarian sympathies tend more toward the four-legged variety, check out the Wine Tasting at the Morris Museum to benefit homeless pets on November 10 (6-9pm). Madison’s Main Street Wine Cellar, in partnership with St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center, will offer a “walk around” tasting event that includes wines from all over the world and hors d’oeuvres donated by local area restaurants. Tickets must be purchased in advance: http://www.sthuberts.org or at The Main Street Wine Cellar, 300 Main Street, Madison. Despite the pet-friendly theme, pets are not actually allowed to attend. Cost is $50 per person, including entrance to the museum.

For the Anglophiles out there (you know who you are), the Park Avenue Club in Florham Park offers its annual fall fête on November 14 with a decidedly British theme: “Tea and Tonic.” Champagne cocktails, Pimm’s, tonics and gin; a specialty tea-tasting station; a cigar-rolling station; cucumber sandwiches, scones, strawberries and cream, and other “delectable high tea classics.” They also promise “lilting music to take a turn ’round the dance floor, and you can even have your tea leaves read!” Event runs from 4-7pm. Stiff upper lip optional. Ticket information is available from the club’s Development Department: 973-236-2998.

Want a break from getting up before dawn to stuff your turkey? Morristown’s Copeland Restaurant will do the work for you. A sumptuous three-course menu will be offered from 1-9pm on November 25. Selections include white acorn squash soup, seared Hudson Valley foie gras, chili-cinnamon glazed sea bass, prime NY sirloin, warm Valrhona chocolate brioche pudding, Copeland apple pie with cardamom ice cream–oh, and of course roasted turkey … though theirs is cognac- and maple-glazed. Cost is $59 adults, $29 children (11 years and under; the standard children’s menu will also be available). For more info visit www.copelandrestaurant.com.

Deanna Quinones is the Jersey Bites Regional Editor for Morris County. A freelance writer, blogger, and unrepentant chocolate addict, Deanna spent 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area where life was good and the burritos even better. She recently returned to the Garden State and now resides in Morristown, where she and her Texas-born/Jersey-raised/California-found husband are raising two wild and wonderful kids. An experienced book marketer, award-winning greeting card writer, and entertainment writing dabbler, Deanna can be reached at [email protected]. (photo credit Pete Genovese/The Star-Ledger)

Blogging Out Hunger Returns

Deborah Smith, Executive Editor
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Today we are excited to introduce our 2nd Blogging out Hunger campaign to help raise awareness and donations for the Community FoodBank of New Jersey.  Two years ago when we spearheaded the first ever “blog burst” (as they are sometimes called) we really didn’t know what to expect.  Needless to say,we were amazed by the enthusiasm and eagerness by so many bloggers to get involved.  By the end of the day of December 15th, we had over 122 bloggers who had posted about the Community FoodBank’s desperate need for donations.

This year, we are hoping for even more bloggers to jump on board and help us spread the news about the 20th Anniversary of the FoodBank’s “Check out Hunger” campaign which is going on now through December.  Check-Out Hunger is an annual awareness campaign and fund raiser for the Community FoodBank of New Jersey which actually began in New Jersey and is now run at supermarket chains across the northeast.  I know you have seen those tickets at the check out counters of your local grocery stores. Please don’t ignore them. The Community FoodBank of New Jersey reports that need for nutritious food is up 30-40 percent at its partner agencies (soup kitchens, pantries, shelters, etc) this year.

In 2009 Check-Out Hunger crossed the $2 Million plateau for the first time. The campaign raised $2,093, 086 for food banks across the state. Since 1992, millions of people have supported the program at food markets and online at www.checkouthungernj.org.

Participating food markets include A&P, Food Basics, Foodtown, Kings, Pathmark, Shop Rite, Super Fresh, Wawa, and Wegmans.

Please make it a point to donate during the Holiday Season to the Check Out Hunger campaign.  With so many New Jersey residents out of work, this season is going to be particularly hard on families and demanding on the hunger relief programs in our state.

Also, please visit the blogs below to check out their “Check out Hunger” posts.  This list will continue to grow as the day goes on. So, feel free to check in often.  And, Bloggers, feel free to jump on board even if you didn’t commit to participate.  Just send a link to your post to info (at) jersey bites.com and we’ll get you listed.

Participating Blogs:

JerseySmarts.com

RadomCravings

GServo.com

Mamasick.com

NJTrees.com

JustAnotherDistraction.com

John & Lisa are Eating in South Jersey

ThisFullHouse.com

Jersey Girl Cooks

Roxy’s Best Of… New Jersey

Roxiticus Desperate Housewives:

Roxy’s Bay Head Blog

Middletown Comfort Inn Blog

Tommyeats.com

Family Friends and Food

SableMinded.com

Goodies From Mom

Welcome To My Planet

Food Allure

Red Bank Limo Blog

Lifes a Balancing Act

The Ridgewood Blog

MoreMonmouthMusings.net

Bergenation

South Jersey Locavore

Toque Magazine

Jersey Shore Vacations Blog

 

Bites from the Editor

Deborah Smith, Executive Editor
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Happy Halloween Biters,

The pulled pork is ready for our annual front lawn fiesta at a friend’s house in Point Pleasant later today. She lives on a street that resembles Bourbon Street on Halloween. I kid you not. I think the neighborhood parents look forward to the day more than the kids.  Whole families come themed out to trick or treat.  The kids collect candy and the grownups a beer or a bowl of whatever is on the stove.  It is a fairy tale Halloween every year that I am sure my kids are going to look back on with fond, fond memories.  I know I will.

I’m coming to you a day early with my monthly update, because tomorrow we are holding a “blog burst” on behalf of the Community Food Bank of New Jersey.  What the heck is a blog burst you ask? Basically, it is an organized effort among us bloggers to get the word out collectively about the Foodbank’s Check Out Hunger Campaign, going on in grocery stores and online in November and December.  Please check back tomorrow.  We will be providing a list of blogs here who are participating in the campaign.  And, remember to look for the “Check Out Hunger” campaign signs at your local store.  It is the 20th anniversary of Check out Hunger and we want to make it the most successful year yet.

We will be welcoming a new contributor to the Biter family and a new column this month with our first edition of “Beer Bites” by Pete Culos. Pete will be covering the exciting things going on with craft beer here in New Jersey.  His first post will be an interview with Gretchen Schmidhausler, Head Brewer of Basil T’s in Red Bank.  Gretchen is an award winning Brewer and Past President of the Garden State Craft Brewer’s Guild.  We are so excited about this new feature for Jersey Bites and are looking forward to Pete’s picks for the best places in the Garden State.  And, if you have some tips on great beer spots to visit, please put it on Pete’s radar for a future trip by leaving a comment.

We have some great reviews coming up this month, including our new Editor from Sussex County, Danielle Kohler, with her first post on Milano Restaurante in Hardyston and Beverly Beveridge’s Beach-side wedding review at the Breakers in Spring Lake.  Tom Kovacevich our resident produce guy will be spotlighting Jersey cranberries just in time for Thanksgiving.  And, speaking of Thanksgiving, we’ve got lots of yummy plans in store.  For starters, this month’s “Jersey’s Best” contest will be in search of the best Pies in New Jersey.  Just like last month’s best pizza contest (which if you missed here are the winners) we will be looking for your nominations through our Facebook page.  We will also be launching an exciting giveaway this month sponsored by Emile Henry Gourmet Housewares.  One lucky winner will walk away with a prize worth up to $250, so stay tuned for that.

And finally, don’t forget that Jersey Shore Restaurant Week starts on November 5th and runs through the 14th.  Visit their website and get out and support some of your local eateries during the off season at the Jersey Shore.

Happy Halloween from the Jersey Bites crew.  If you haven’t done so already, be sure to “Like” our Facebook page so you can participate in our “Jersey’s Best Pies” competition this month.  Just go to http://www.Facebook.com/Jerseybites.  After you “Like” the page, go to the Discussions Tab and nominate your favorite Pie Place.

This is New Jersey: Zombie Walk in Asbury Park

Deborah Smith, Executive Editor
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Photo by Jeff Wickliffe **

Get your Zombie on today at the New Jersey Zombie Walk in Asbury Park.  Everyone who attends the Zombie Walk this year MUST BE ZOMBIFIED to participate in the Guinness World Record Attempt! The record they’re trying to break is the ‘Worlds Largest Gathering of Zombies’, so ‘zombie hunters’ and ‘survivors’ are welcome to attend the event, but won’t count towards breaking the record.

Central Jersey Blood Center will also be a part of the 3rd Annual NJ Zombie Walk in Asbury Park (naturally) and will be holding a blood drive from 10:30 AM to 4:00 PM. The drive will be held in the blood mobile outside of Convention Hall, and for your convenience they are offering the ability to schedule your appointment online by clicking here.

Location: Asbury Park Convention Hall.
RAIN OR SHINE  http://www.njzombiewalk.com/
Events begin at 11:00am, please arrive by 2:00pm!  Hurry up all you Zombies, get moving!!!!

**For more great photos by Jeff check out his Flickr Stream.

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