4 servings

Hands on: 30 minutes Total time: 3 hours, 30 minutes

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Meridith Ford: Even if you?re not in the, ahem, spirit of things, this Pea Soup makes a great fall dinner. Pair it with Fava Bean Salad and you've got a monster of a meal.

1 cup split peas

3 cups chicken stock

2 cups water

2 tablespoons unsalted butter

1/4 cup chopped celery

1/4 cup chopped carrots

1/4 cup chopped onions

1 clove garlic, minced

1/2 teaspoon ground cumin

Salt and pepper to taste

Ketchup

Wash and drain the peas. In a large pot, place the peas in the stock and water, bring to a simmer and cook gently for 2 hours.

In a medium saute pan over medium heat, combine butter, celery, carrots, onions and garlic. Add to the pea mixture and cook for an additional hour. Add the cumin, then salt and pepper to season. Remove from heat. Puree in a food processor until smooth.

To make a spiderweb in the soup: Pour the soup into shallow bowls. Pipe the ketchup in concentric circles, starting from the center and piping outward. Using a toothpick, pull the ketchup from the center of the bowl to the edge to create a web. Garnish with a creepy hand and lots of ghoulish spiders.

Per serving: 246 calories (percent of calories from fat, 24), 13 grams protein, 33 grams carbohydrates, 13 grams fiber, 7 grams fat (4 grams saturated), 16 milligrams cholesterol, 1,629 milligrams sodium.

Bob Longino: Linda Blair is the little girl with perfect aim in "The Exorcist" (1973). Let's be real here: Her projectile vomiting is Cy Young-worthy. The green goop flies from her pie-hole and smacks Jason Miller in the face. (By the way, director William Friedken had assured Miller the upchuck would land on his chest.)

Though not green, there is also memorable regurgitation in Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later" (2002), when a disease-infected zombie crashes through a window and vomits bloody bile all over actor Luke Mably. "It was like being a kid again," Mably said. "I used to make movies myself as a kid with a video camera and get tomato sauce and chuck it at our faces and pretend to be zombies, so now it was doing it for real. A lot of sugar blood and chopped up raisins. It was fun to do."