Recipes

Summer Vegetable Salad with Olives

Prep Time: 20-25 min.
Ingredients:

• 1 cup mixture of green and black olives
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1 clove fresh garlic (peeled and forced through a press) or (1/4 cup of pickled garlic)
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• freshly ground black pepper to taste
• 3 tomatoes cut into wedges
• 1 medium sweet onion, sliced into 1/4-inch thick rings
• 1 cucumber, sliced into 1/4-inch thick rounds
• 6 fresh basil leaves sliced into 1/8-inch ribbons

Preparation:
Place all ingredients: tomatoes, onion, cucumber, olives and basil in a bowl. Add olive oil, salt and pepper and mix it up. Make it cooler in the fridge for 10-15minutes before serving.

It is lovely with garlic bread or toasts.

Delicious walnut cake

Prep Time: 1 hour 15 min.
Ingredients

• ½ cup butter
• 1¾ cups flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 2¾ teaspoons baking powder
• Yolks of 3 eggs
• Whites of 2 eggs
• ½ cup milk
• ¾ cup walnut meat, broken in pieces
• ½ teaspoon salt

Preparation:

• Preheat oven to 220.
• Mix ingredients in order given.
• Pour in a buttered pan.
• Bake 45 minutes. Let cool.
• Garnish with pieces of walnuts