Drink

Witches Brew

(Using sparkling water instead of 7up)

Appetizers

“Witch” Guacamole with blue corn tortilla chips

Bowl of grapes

Dinner

Roast Pork Tenderloin with Rosemary and Garlic

Balsamic Roasted Vegetables

Twice Baked “Witch” Potatoes

Spinach, Pear and Pumpkin Seed Salad with (mustard version) CMF Basic Salad Dressing

Dessert

“Candy Corn” Fruit Cups

Fudgy Black Bean Brownies topped with

Chocolate Wafer “Bats”

Day before

  • Make CMF Salad Dressing (mustard version)
  • Toast pumpkin seeds for the salad
  • Prep vegetables for Roasted Vegetables, place in roasting pan, cover and refrigerate
  • Make guacamole (I mash 2 avocados and mix with 1/4 cup each finely diced onion, tomato, cilantro, juice of 1/2 a lemon and season with salt and pepper to taste
  • Prep Roasted Pork Tenderloin, place in pyrex/roasting pan and refrigerate
  • Bake the potatoes for Twice Baked Potatoes
  • Make the Fudge Black Bean Brownies
  • Chop pineapple and orange for the “Candy Corn Fruit Cups”

Day of

  • Place guacamole and blue corn tortilla chips on serving platter
  • Prep salad, slice pear and drizzle with lemon juice
  • Prep potato “witch” hat items: bowl with blue corn tortilla chips, olives, bell pepper slices, carrot sticks, anything that could be used to make witches faces
  • Prep “bat” cookie station: place chocolate cookies on a platter, pretzel “legs” in a bowl, dried cranberry “eyes” in another, and dulce de leche in a small bowl

An hour before serving

  • Place Roasted Vegetables in preheated oven
  • Half hour later, place Roast Pork Tenderloin in oven
  • Take Roasted Vegetables out, place Twice Bake potatoes in oven
  • Toss spinach, pear, pumpkin seeds with salad dressing

Produce

Avocado 2

Yellow onion

Red onion 2

Garlic

Eggplant 1 lb – 1 1/2 lb

Red bell pepper

Green bell pepper

Zucchini

Yellow squash

Russet potatoes 4

Rosemary

Baby spinach

Pear 2

Mango (or orange)

Pineapple

Refrigerated

3 lb pork tenderloin

Eggs

Heavy whipping cream (or full-fat coconut cream) for fruit cups

Pantry

Coconut oil

Cocoa

Can of black beans

Blue corn tortilla chips

Back to Nature Fudge cookies

Candy “eyes”