Home cooking

haha so we're doing sooo much better at these updates.  Last week (for unremembered reasons) Shelley and I could not leave in order to get our desserts so we improvised and made our own.  we made chocolate cookies.  The PLAN was chocolate chocolate chip cookies but someone (coughcoughshelleycoughcough) messed it up.  BUT THATS OK! because i think they were even better. 

if you want the recipe we used, here ya go!  http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chocolate-Chocolate-Chip-Cookies-III/Detail.aspx

Chili's

We're not doing so well at consistently writing our findings.  Will try to do better in the future!  Two weeks ago we went to Chili's for dessert.  Since we were both PMS-ing, a giant chocolate dessert was required.  We ordered the Molton Chocolate Cake...one of my favorites.  A warm chocolate brownie filled with a gooey hot fudgey center served with vanilla icecream and topped with chocolate sauce was the perfect dessert for that week!  And this time there was just the right amount of icecream.  We had no trouble finishing it off!  As well as having a fabulous dessert we were entertained by the outfits and hats the servers were wearing.  It seems there was a clown there earlier in the evening who had made balloon hats for them.  We're not sure, though, why they were wearing Mardi Gras beads...since it was the middle of lent.

SHELLEY

Catch Up!

Friends! Romans! Countrymen! Lend me your computer screens!

Whoooooo! This post has been quite some time coming! I apologize greatly for the delay friends but fear not! We come bearing new reviews!

Let’s see, where did we leave off? Ah yes, four weeks ago Shelley and I took a trip to the lovely Landmark restaurant, located next to the mall.  Shelley had plain cheesecake with strawberry topping while I enjoyed the Oreo cheesecake.  While our local cheesecake connoisseur did not fall in love with her cheesecake, I found mine rather enjoyable.  “It wasn’t great” is the only thing I can get out of her about it.  While I don’t usually like cheesecake, I did enjoy what I ate of mine. 

For our next stop we venture to the far off land of Virginia.  Daddy dear joined us for this dessert night.  Craving a piece of pie, we found ourselves in a little café called the Thunderbird Café in the little town of McGaheysville.  Shelley and Dad had the apple pie, but I was craving something a little sweeter, so I went with the chocolate pie.  They get nothing but good marks from this girl!  ALL of the pies were homemade (and we could tell) and fresh from the refrigerator / microwave for the warm apple pies.  I assume Shel and Dad enjoyed theirs because all I heard for about the next 7 minutes was “mmmmmmmm.”  I am pleased to report mine was to die for! It was so rich I didn’t think I would be able to finish it! However the waiter challenged me by SAYING I couldn’t so then, of course, I had to.  ;)

For week 4 of our quest, we were back home and decided to go with Santa Fe.  We ordered the caramel apple wraps.  Their menu describes this tasty treat as “Stovetop apples rolled in a flour tortilla, lightly fried then sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar, drizzled with caramel and served with a scoop of Blue Bell® Ice Cream” and oh mah goodness was it fantastic! Shelley says it was delicious but with an unneeded scoop of ice cream.  (I am beginning to see a theme here, are you?)

Finally! I have managed to catch you up and bring you back to this week.  Last night, we girls were looking for something light after my tap class, so we decided to hit up Schroeder’s Deli on Broad Street.  Shelley ordered (are you ready for this?) a cheesecake and I got the cinnamon yeast roll.  Shelley could say nothing bad about her weekly treat.  It was small, but just the right size for a quick pick-me-up.  She said she LOVED it.  As for mine, it was equally yummy! A small square yeast roll (looked like Sister Shubert’s but I love those too so I’m not complaining) covered in cinnamon.  I only got one so it was small, but also just the right size.  HOWEVER! They charged us 15 cents each for water.  Shame shame Schroeder’s! shame shame…

Well! What a rant this has been! Until next week, stay sweet!

~ChRiStInA