recipe/idea request: "green fuzzy food"

[cellio]

There is a Halloween pot-luck at work on Monday. Just yesterday we had a spectacular fridge purge -- things years past their expiration dates and quite a few "science experiments" and containers of green fuzzy...something. These ideas seem like they should go together. What can I make for Monday that would evoke the themes of the fridge purge?

Constraints:
- I'll need to keep it at room temperature for a few hours. Or if it's small I can use the fridge. :-)
- Cannot require that-day heating.
- Kosher parve or dairy (no meat).

I will unlock this post Monday after work if I get any suggestions.

Thanks!

Comments

[dsrtao]

Guacamole is appropriately green, and can probably be induced to look fuzzy-ish with the aid of a fork.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Coconut cake with occasional circles of green, pink, and/or black coloring of varying sizes to simulate mold colonies.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Angel food cake would work, especially if the circles are made with colored confectioner's sugar. Done right, this could look very scary.

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

A family favorite when I was growing up was "moldy green salad" -- cottage cheese, pineapple chunks, chopped walnuts, golden raisins, and lime jello mix (not yet made into actual jello). Served cold. ;)

[cellio]

This is what I ended up doing (with a dash of blue food coloring to temper the green). It was evocative. :-) Thanks!

[ralphmelton.livejournal.com]

Watergate salad is green and lumpy, if not fuzzy.
For great fuzziness and some green, kiwi fruit.

[cellio]

I had never heard of Watergate salad, though I recognize Google's answer as "green fluff". Thanks.

[hudebnik.livejournal.com]

Well, you could start with some chip dip or yogurt or something, arrange it attractively in a serving dish, and then sprinkle in a drop of red food coloring here, a drop of blue there... Do not mix, of course. It won't be fuzzy, but should be otherwise repulsive.

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

G had 3 ideas - the third is probably the best.

(1) A friend of ours used to keep other people from eating the cottage cheese she kept in the communal dorm fridge by adding small amounts of green or blue food coloring.

(2) This one probably isn't work appropriate and isn't edible: a green colored cat ("it grew legs and walked away").

(3) A different friend of ours makes a bizarre drink to teach lab safety to her high school science students (as in "never eat or drink anything in the lab"): equal amounts of milk, seltzer, and syrup (vanilla, chocolate, etc), plus a pinch to 0.25 teaspoon sour salt in the seltzer or syrup, plus food coloring in one or more of the liquids - turquoise in the milk works well (looks like detergent), red added to chocolate syrup sometimes works (looks like blood if done right), as does yellow in the seltzer (can make it look like urine). Keep the 3 liquids separate until you're ready to serve, and you'll get a fizzing grey icky looking drink that's really not too bad. You would probably want to practice at home to get the amounts just right...

[cellio]

The lab-safety lesson is awesome! I will have to do that sometime when there is more of a "performance" venue. (This was basically a buffet that people came and visited whenever over the course of a few hours.)