If I'm not posting recipes in awhile it's because something is happening in my life to cause writer's block. This month, my writer's block was called October baseball. Our team, the Seattle Mariners, made it to the MLB playoffs and kept winning. They've made it to the playoffs before, exactly six times since their inaugural year of 1977, but this year they kept winning. This year they made it to game 7 of the ALCS (American League Championship Series) after winning the ALDS (American League Division Series) against Detroit. Not only did we make it to game 7, they were ahead in the game through seven innings before they lost to the Toronto Blue Jays. That's the closest they have ever gotten to the World Series...within 3 innings. Agonizing, to say the least. Playoff games are not like regular season games at all. They're much more intense and there is lot more strategy applied by the coaches like the way they use the pitchers, how they arrange t...