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BY THALIA GUZMAN
Th e panini ($10) includes sliced chicken, bacon, tomato, havarti cheese and pesto sauce.
The Nanaimo bar ($4) is a chocolate dessert named after the Canadian city of Nanaimo in British Columbia.
The Maple Leaf ($9) is two slices of brioche toast topped with syrup, powdered sugar and fresh strawberries.
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Northern D’Lights brings Canadian avors to Schertz, from homestyle cooking to old fashioned desserts
Northern D’Lights, a Canadian-inspired restaurant, had its beginnings as a home-based, baked goods business in 2019 which eventually led to selling at local vendor markets in 2020. About the owners The restaurant is owned by Parker Hallet and his wife Krista Hallet, who attribute their success to Krista Hallet’s Canadian roots named after where her family is from in Prince Edward Island. “The recipes are passed down from her grandmother and mother, and that’s where the northern part of our name comes from, because she is actually from Canada. So, most of the recipes have a long heritage of her upbringing,” Parker said. Krista said she started baking full time after the pandemic hit. As the business grew, Krista and Parker began selling out of a coffee truck with the goal to open a brick-and-mortar to
brioche toast topped with syrup, powdered sugar and fresh strawberries. On the savory side, the panini sandwich includes sliced chicken, bacon, tomato, havarti cheese and pesto sauce. The bacon-wrapped meatloaf is served with green beans and mashed potatoes. The popular chicken pot pies can be preordered. For dessert, the Nanaimo bar is a three-layered chocolate dessert which is popular in Canada, and features coconut, custard and chocolate ganache. Baked items such as the molasses cookie originated from Krista’s grandmother’s recipes and are customer favorites. What’s special about it? All baked items are made from scratch by Krista Hallet, who is passing the baking knowl- edge she learned from her mother and grand- mother on to her daughter. “I grew up everyday watching my mother and grandmother baking or cooking and thought I was deprived because I didn’t have Little Debbie cakes, instead I had homemade cookies,” Krista said. “Watching my daughter grow an interest in baking has been great.”
Iced vanilla latte ($5.75) comes with a small version of the molasses cookie.
Parker Hallet and Krista Hallet are the owners of Northern D’Lights in Schertz.
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Northern D’Lights serves a variety of breakfast dishes such as ‘The Maple Leaf’—two slices of
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