Sylvia's Scenario

We picked twelve cups of blackberries the other day while we had visitors here and turned it into blackberry coffee cake.  This recipe used 3-1/2 cups of blackberries so I also made two loaves of  blackberry bread   and the most popular  blackberry cobbler  that got eaten so fast I never got a photo of it.  And I still have blackberries leftover.  All these recipes are from a very old cookbook of mine called Wild & Free Blackberries that I've had since around the mid-1990's.    And this is definitely the time of year that this little cookbook is sitting out on my kitchen counter.  We picked them at our local golf course because Bruce sees how plentiful they are when he plays golf and he has been eager to get us out there to pick and we finally did. Our visitors have returned home now but they had three children who LOVED picking blackberries and also LOVED eating them.  They were children of Bruce's nephew who was here with his ...

We recently had the best waffles we've ever eaten and it was at none other than a waffle party.   And the waffle party was none other than in New York City.  Eating doesn't get much better than this.  This was at my cousin's apartment in New York City located in the Upper West Side.  I've mentioned her before when her apartment (or called a co-op in New York) was featured in the New York Times in 2012  here .   Thirteen years later, I'm finally getting to see her place and she really rolled out the red carpet for us.  Bruce and I were visiting New York on our way to Washington D.C. to see Nick who was there for work.  And we loved every minute of being in New York.  I also have a nephew who lives there and we met up with him, as well.  Both of my relatives who live there are the most wonderful, fun people and our take-away after visiting New York is that the people there are extremely outgoing, fun-loving with very interesting lives. ...