Sylvia's Scenario

And so it begins. The holiday season is upon us.  Are you ready for it?  For us, it helped that yesterday we attended our favorite Holiday Open House in our neighborhood at The West Seattle Nursery.  It's an excellent Open House to get you in the mood. We learned how good it was three years ago when we moved here and now we attend every year.  It's a wonderful place to shop for unique gifts and decor.  I always love looking at their displays which are more like a work of art.  They have multiple Christmas trees decorated throughout their grounds that are gorgeous.   This tree is a maritime theme.  You can purchase plenty of ornaments for this theme, appropriately so because of where we live.  Need a special gift?  There's plenty to choose from here, that's for sure.  They always offer an assortment of amazing refreshments each year at thei...

We woke up on our New Year with fresh snow and it was so quiet and beautiful.  I love waking up to a surprise like that especially since snow is so rare here.  It apparently snowed in the early morning hours, not last night while all the celebrating was going on. I was too tired to stay up until midnight but Bruce said he could see the fireworks at the Space Needle while laying in bed, a show that lasted 10 minutes - talk about watching fireworks in the comforts of your own home or should I say, own bed. This isn't quite our view but you get the idea. I haven't had any food postings for awhile because I haven't been doing much cooking since Christmas.  With Nick and Sachiyo visiting, I was constantly cooking and eating, then Christmas, more cooking and eating...it feels good to just not think about cooking and eating for awhile.  I did, however, enjoy the feast we had on Christmas at my brother's house with my entire family, at least those who live here loca...

Merry Christmas from our family to yours! We are having a leisurely morning before we head over to my brother's house for a dinner of good food, good drink and good times to be had.  There will be 20 people there so everyone is bringing food.  I am bringing my  brussel sprouts with mustard butter , salmon dip, homemade rolls that I made yesterday that turned out very festive-looking and everyone is bringing  Christmas cookies  for dessert so I made my usual. My cooking has been on the light side, no complaints but enough to keep me satisfied.  Even last night was easy. Lauren, Ari, Bruce and I went out to our neighborhood   Salty's  for Christmas Eve and spent 3-1/2 hours at a wonderful and entertaining meal.  We indulged since it was Christmas Eve and had drinks, appetizers of oysters,  delicious special holiday's entrees and dessert of their signature White Chocolate Mousse Cake with Raspberry sauce  ...