Sylvia's Scenario

No, I am not in Singapore but Nick is there for another work-related trip and he has been texting us lots of photos, as he usually does when he goes to Singapore.  He's been there several times, I've lost count, but he goes there often for work.  He would love for us to go to Singapore because he is so fascinated with it but I'm not sure I could handle the heat.  It's on the equator and it is hot twelve months of the year and mean hot and humid , my most unfavorite type of any weather.  I was in Japan last year in July and Nick said that was similar to how Singapore always is. It's the humidity that's tough; that muggy, jungle-type heat.  But there are so many things he loves about Singapore that he doesn't mind the heat.  The first thing he loves is the food.  He sent us the photo above of Chinese/Japanese/Singaporean fusion humbao sliders.  Top left clockwise;  vegetable tempura; tempura salmon mentaiko (Japanese spicy fish egg);...

It may be "back-to-school" time and the beginning of football season, but I am still enjoying what's left of my summer.  Is August more than halfway over already? (gasp!)  Around here, summer means lots of festivals, Mariner baseball games, free concerts, art shows, air shows (Blue Angels), boat races, and lots of yummy food everywhere.  What can I say.  I love summer and I don't want it to end. So far this summer, we've gone to Alki beach for two of their festivals; the Alki Art Fair last month where they had a stand selling mangos-on-a-stick that I loved  and then, of course, the big Sub Pop Anniversary concert last weekend that I blogged about already in my previous post. (Our rock-and-roll weekend.)  We also went to our neighborhood's SummerFest that they have every year at the Junction, which is West Seattle's main downtown area.   It's a lot easier to go to local festivities in our nei...

The weather here cooled off briefly for a day or two so I decided I felt like having some soup.  That is something I haven't eaten in awhile since it's been rather hot here.  I've been trying more recipes from the book called  The Plant Paradox  and I will admit, some have been a flop, thus no posting.  Or maybe I should say, they did not meet my taste standards.  I'm sure I made them correctly, but when you're using alternative ingredients, some recipes just taste too weird.  But this soup recipe was really good.  I'd never bought celery root before and wasn't even sure what it was.  The root of celery, I guess. (Thus, the title of the recipe.)  I forgot to take a photo of it before I chopped it up but it looks like a gnarly Russet potato but has the texture of a rutabaga, or something like that.  I only made half the recipe, in case it turned out to be a flop again but now I wish I would have made the whole thi...