Sylvia's Scenario

I made this recipe recently when my sister and her husband were visiting from Colorado to spend some time with their son, Skyler, who lives here in Seattle.   While they were here, I invited the rest of my family over for a Sunday brunch so everyone could visit  and I made this dish which is another version of my favorite   hoppelpoppel .  Since we had been traveling in Italy right before this, I was craving Mexican food.  (I still have not eaten any spaghetti since we've been back.)  It's funny how you gravitate towards certain foods depending on what your diet has or has not been...I guess that's why they say "everything in moderation".  When we first returned from our trip, it was so easy to think of what to cook for dinner because I was craving everything (except spaghetti).  That first week, after Barbara's split pea soup and   dill bread  were gone, which only lasted two days, I made  chicken and dumplings , ...

Our visit to the Hotel del Coronado continues to be a very magical time. I love the Crown Room and today we got to spend our Sunday morning tasting the best of the Del.  It was the best  Sunday Brunch  I've ever been to.  You can feel the presence of L. Frank Baum in this room because of the beautiful crown lights that he designed hanging above us and they look like they're right out of the Wizard of Oz.  He apparently wrote a couple of the sequels of the Wizard of Oz here at the Del and he would often have story time out on the beach and read to the children of guests on the beach.  Can you  imagine?  And I think we experienced the hotel's ghost   last night because our bathroom light kept going on by itself as we slept!  So weird.  But we woke up with a good appetite ready for our Sunday brunch. The seafood here is incredible and last night at the convention's cocktail party, I mostly atta...