Book club is a hit at Courtney's new home!

Courtney hosts an entertaining book club at her new home.  It is always good to see everyone, catch up and eat good food.

Courtney made a delicious main dish:  Sweet Potato, Kale, and Sausage
http://pinchofyum.com/sweet-potato-kale-sausage-bake-white-cheese-sauce. 

This was followed by 2 great desserts.  Thanks to Courtney for the Healthy No Bake Snickerdoodle Bites:
http://thebigmansworld.com/2015/10/01/healthy-no-bake-snickerdoodle-bites/

And Lauren for the Pumpkin Brownies:
http://cookiesandcups.com/2-ingredient-pumpkin-brownies/

Happy Eating and Reading ;)

Delicious eats in Del Mar

I think the desserts took the prize this time around...oh wait or is that every time ;)

Zoe provided an amazing Strawberry Bread:

Strawberry Bread

Ingredients
1 ½ cups fresh strawberries, sliced
1 cup sugar
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
½ cup melted butter (1 stick)

Directions
Preheat oven to 350.  Lightly grease a standard loaf pan (8”x5” approx.)  Rinse, core and slice the strawberries, place in a small bowl and sprinkle with ½ cup sugar. In a large bowl, blend together the remaining sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.  In a medium bowl, beat the eggs until foamy, then add the vanilla and melted butter.  Make sure the melted butter isn’t too hot- just barely melted.  Stir in the strawberries.  Combine the two mixtures, blending until the dry ingredients are moistened.  Pour into the pan and bake for 60 -70 min, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.  

Lara made her now famous fudgy hot tamale brownies....YUM!

Her recipe was adapted from this one: http://www.somethingswanky.com/fudgey-chocolate-chunk-brownies/

**Lara says "Two things to note, I used a whole bag of dark chocolate chips, and also added a whole box of hot tamales candy!"

Lauren made delicious Raw Fig Bars:
http://www.thehealthymaven.com/2014/09/raw-fig-bars.html#_a5y_p=2339836