I have tried making it a home several more times, but I just couldn’t get it to taste exactly like Fresh Berry’s Tart flavor.  My mom told me to try Sour Cream — that it could be their secret ingredient.  Sounds weird — I know!!  BUT–I made it with Sour Cream and it tasted exactly like Fresh Berry’s Tart.  It makes sense in a way – Sour cream is white so it would not change the color, it is tart….

Here is the recipe:

1.5 cartons (48 ounces) Lowfat Plain Yogurt
1/8 – 1/4 C. Sugar (to your taste)
2-3 heaping spoonfuls of Sour Cream

Blend ingredients very well until the mixture is very smooth.  You should not be able to feel any sugar granules.  I usually blend it in my blender.
Pour mixture into yogurt maker/ice cream maker – whatever you have.  I leave it in there until it looks like soft-serve consistency.  It is probably 10-15mins.
Serve with your favorite toppings.

The three baguettes were free.  The Hunts tomato sauce was 15 cents/can, the ribeye steak was free and the two T-Bone steaks were $1 each.

I am off to make French Toast Bake with one of my baguettes.

2 T Olive Oil (I don’t like olive oil so I always use grapeseed oil in its place…yes, I am weird)
1 small onion chopped
7-8 carrots, peeled and sliced
1.5 green pepper chopped
6-8 cups of water
1 can fire roasted tomatoes
1 can diced tomatoes
1 large can of tomato sauce
1 can garbanzo beans
1 bag green lentils
2 large handfuls of baby spinach
2 bay leaves
1 t Italian seasoning (mine has marjoram, thyme, rosemary, savory, sage, oregano, and basil in it)
1 T dried parsley flakes
Pepper and Salt to Taste (I don’t ever add salt but you could.  I love pepper so I added a lot of pepper.)

Use a large stock pot.  Saute onion, carrots, and green pepper until soft.  Add the the other ingredients except the spinach and stir.  Put the lid on and bring to a medium boil.  Let simmer for 30-40 mins until your lentils float to the top.  Turn the heat off, put the spinach on top, put the lid back on for five mins or until the spinach has wilted.  Then stir in the spinach.

This was so good!  It makes a lot.  I would say it makes 12 individual servings.  It freezes very well, so I like to freeze it individually for nice easy meals to pull out of the freezer at anytime.  I had never bought Italian seasoning before, but it was also very good.

You could use any vegetables that you like in place of what I used.

Place frozen chicken breats in the bottom of a crockpot.  Pour Salsa (diced tomatos for less spicy) over the top, pour a can of rinsed black beans on top and cook on low all day.  Serve with a dollop of sour creme.  Enjoy!

For my tall drink made with non-fat milk and no whip:

• Fat:  15
• Calories:  360
• Protein:  11
• Sugar:  46

Oh my gosh!!  How could this have so much fat it?  I can understand the sugar, but 15 grams of fat!!!

I pulled that picture off of Starbucks.com.  Doesn’t it look pretty?!  Don’t be fooled!!  They are sinful.
Next time, I will stick to my regular:  Caffe Latte (Tall, non-fat, no whip, no foam)

• Fat:  0
• Calories:  100
• Protein:  10
• Sugar:  14

The restaurant is located at 61st and Yale where The Market used to be.  It is a nice shopping center, and D’Novo seemed to have an excellent image.  To get inside the restaurant one has to walk through the outside eating area, which is beautiful.  Check it out below…

Now that I look back at them, my pictures don’t really do it justice.  You all can just use these and then imagine. 

In the entrance to the restaurant is a waterfall on the left which is very pretty.  The whole restaurant is white it seems.  The booths are white; the walls are white, like I said everything is white.  I don’t know how they are going to maintain the white booths or the white walls.  It seems like they would get dirty so fast.  Well, that is their problem to worry about.  On to the food.

I ordered chicken with ratatouille pasta.  The chicken was wonderful.  I thought it would be too dry, but to my amazement it wasn’t.  It was great.  It was served with whole wheat pasta which definitely needed some more vegetables added it to it for the price tag.

My husband ordered a sirloin burger which was served as a wrap.  His meal came with a salad.

Next time we go, I will have the Sirloin Burger as well.  It was very very good.

Overall, I was pleased with the atmosphere and food at D’Nono.  The man who took our order wasn’t the most friendly crayon in the box, but he seemed efficient enough.  I was surprised at how quickly our food was delivered to our table.  My husband and I will definitely go back to D’Nono and I would recommend it.

The restaurant is filled with chandeliers.  My phone didn’t do a good job at capturing their brilliance, but you get the idea.

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Always ready to try something new, I plopped it in my cart.  At home I cut the melon open exactly like a honeydew.  To my delight the melon smelled amazing.  It smelled very sweet like a ripe cantaloupe but the coloring looked more like a honeydew.  I cut it up and tasted it…I must have gotten one that was the perfect ripeness because it smelled delicious and was very very tasty.

What have you tried recently that you have never tried before??

Spelt flour is supposed to be better for you.  It is typically organic because it has a short growing cycle and doesn’t usually need to be sprayed for bugs or weeds.  It is supposed to contain more vitamins, fiber, and protein than regular white flour and also whole-wheat flour.  I used whole spelt flour, but my mom said she usually uses white spelt flour.  Yesterday she made bread out of white spelt flour and my brother thought it was Sara Lee.  lol

I would have taken pictures, but my poor camera is in Kansas.  Last summer I left my camera in San Antonio -Ryan was NOT happy (It was actually his expensive camera he had before we were married).  This summer I left our new expensive camera at my mom’s house -Ryan was not happy.  Luckily, we will get it back this summer.  Then when I was making the bread today I tried to move our espresso machine with the shot glasses on it to another counter….not good.  One of the espresso shot glasses fell and broke into a million pieces.  Sophie was on the situation ASAP unfortunately.  No she didn’t eat any, but she did want to help pick up.  After I swept the floor twice she went right over to two pieces I missed and looked at me, so I swept again and once again -Ryan was not happy.  Feeling like a failure of a wife, I finished with the bread.  When I pulled the beautiful loaves of organic spelt flour bread out of the oven and my kitchen was filled with the aroma of freshly baked bread -Ryan was very happy.

I must warn you — it is very hard to watch.

I don’t even know how I found this video. One night I was just surfing around on different blogs and found this. After watching it, I told Ryan he needed to watch it. He dragged his feet (very busy- as always ), but I got him to watch it. He was repulsed as well. After watching the video clip, I began thinking about the foods that Ryan and I eat the most of. Chicken was among our top five food choices. Even though this video was made about Kentucky Fried Chicken farms, all other large chicken farms are most likely very similar.