The requested recipes!!!!

You all want the recipes right? Well were not going to give it to you, ya you read right WE ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE THEM TO YOU!!!! Well not just quite yet........we will give them to you when you buy our cook book that is in the process of being published! Hopefully it will be ready for sale before the end of the year. The cook book is going to feature all recipes containing oatmeal that can be served at breakfast. So an oatmeal breakfast cook book, we have not decided on a name so if you all have any ideas we would love to hear them! Neat time we will give you the titles of the recipes so you can have a little appetizer before you get the full course meal(cook book):)

The DeL Sisters

Sweet Potato Cherve Wanut Salad with Creamy Balsalmic Dressing

Yummy! This Salad was so scrumptious! On Tuesday of last week we had sweet potatoes for lunch, so on Wednesday we decided to use up the leftover baked sweet potatoes on a salad. Esther and I thought of some changes that we would make if we were to have more time to prepare it; Grill the baked Sweet Potatoe slices, ( they would need to be a little al dente to do this so they wouldn't fall apart) Toast the Walnuts, and use cranberry Cherve cheese, and maybe sprinkle with a few dries cranberries.

What do you normally do with sweet potatoes?


Here is the recipe: serves 1-2 depending on how hungry you are!

21/2c. of baby spinach
1 sweet potato cooked then cut into 1/4in. slices
1/4c. crumbled cherve cheese
2T. walnuts

Top spinach with remaining ingredients, and drizzle with dressing.

The dressing
2T. balsamic vinegar
2t. sour cream
2t. olive oil
pepper

Mix and store in refridgerator

Coming soon! Another wrap recipe!

Italian here we come!

So off us girls went to Austin last week so I (Hannah) could get a harp lesson. Being told that there was a really neat shopping/eating area around, we decided to check it out and get a bite to eat. We unanimously agreed on stopping in at an Italian Cafe. Oh was it worth it!

Great staff, that had wonderful recommendations, and great food!

The food!

Esther and I as you all know love interesting salads, so we decided on a Spinach Salad with Heirloom tomatoes, cherve cheese (goat) candied walnuts, with a balsamic dressing, with of course a bit of cracked black pepper. Yummy! Definitly something we need to make at home in the near future!

Esther and Mom

Esther and I also split a Avocado, balsamic, cherve cheese grilled panini on walnut bread. What a great paring to go with our salad! On the side came fried chickpeas...very interesting indeed, we've never had anything like that before, they were different, I wouldn't say they were bad........ but I wouldn't order them probably because we don't like fried food though we do love chickpeas!

Mom got a classic Italian mozzarella and meat ball sub, that was very good as well. ( no pic. sorry!)

Ah! now for dessert and coffee!

Now after that delicious meal, Esther and I checked out the pastry window. Oh what a sight it was! So many good looking things, we we're contemplating on whether we should get the lemon panna cotta, or the banana cream tart. As you see from the picture we chose the latter, because it went so much better with coffee! Normally I don't care for banana desserts but now I know I love this banana dessert! It was so good! It was a shortbread crust, with some melted chocolate smeared onto the bottom, then layered with slices of bananas, topped with banana pudding, and then little meringue stars.......it was just the right amount of sweetness, and paired great with some real Italian coffee. And was just the right amount to serve 3 of us perfectly!

Restaurant review coming tomorrow!