Sylvia's Scenario

Fall is in full swing around here including our baseball team going to the post season (gotta love October baseball...Brrrr!)  thus the baseball pumpkin in my photo that my friend brought over.  She and I went to the game Friday night and it just so happened that we won with a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 9th inning with 2 outs by a pinch hitter to secure our place in the playoffs - the first time that has ever happened in Major League history!   We could not believe what we were seeing.  The stadium immediately put up the big blue 'W" for all to see. We knew the Mariners could clinch a Wild Card spot this week but we didn't know what game it would actually happen.  They kept announcing the "magic number" everyday which means how many games they needed to win to secure a spot in the Wild Card.  So, we had plans to go to four games this week so we could be there for the celebration.  I couldn't believe it happened Friday night with my friend. ...

We are still having soup weather around here...rain, rain, rain.  Do you know there are six types of rain? Isn't rain just rain?  Oh no, not if you live in Seattle.  There was a whole article about it in the Sunday paper this week.  Just what we wanted to read about after a wonderful Hawaiian vacation.  UGH!  Anyway, the six types are drizzle, mist, sprinkles, "normal rain", downpours, and thunderstorms.  Isn't that just lovely and what you always wanted to know?  So, I go make myself another pot of soup for dinner and sit down to watch the drizzle, or is mist?  Maybe sprinkles?  I think it's rain.   This recipe is super easy and a perfect meal to let slowly cook away while its raining all day.  It is from  Hannah Freese, RD  and since she recommends cutting out "white carbs",  there is no bun in this cheeseburger.  Remember my  Cheeseburger Salad  from June?  When you are trying to avoid the ...

Tonight, I made a pretty simple dish for dinner provided by  Hannah Freese, RD  that was chock full of flavor, fiber and healthy goodness all in a compact little ramekin dish.  It is made with chicken and riced cauliflower that I buy frozen at Trader Joe's which makes it super easy.  You can make your own riced cauliflower with fresh cauliflower and put it in a food processor to dice it up.  You only need 1-1/2 cups in this recipe so not very much.  There is also Dijon mustard mixed in this recipe giving it some spiciness, a combination that I've always love with chicken.  My favorite part was the grated cheese on top that gives that brown crispy cheese taste like "cheese crisps" on top.  It was the perfect topping and then I also sprinkled some chopped green onions on top.  As you can see, we have a guest in our home, as we are dog-sitting this week.  It has been so fun having another Samoyed in our home.  We had two "Sammies" over...

Have you started eating fall food yet? We had our first soup dinner tonight during the Seahawk game for Sunday Night Football (in an empty CenturyLink field thanks to covid). It wasn't really a soup-kind-of-day but was actually a beautiful day in the upper 60's. But fall is in the air so I felt like soup. We set up our new deck furniture in preparation of fall since we can feel it coming.  We ordered our furniture on May 5th and only got it last week, September 11th to be exact.  That was when we were in the midst of the wildfire smoke so our furniture came, they put it on the deck and we never even went out there because of the smoke.  All we could do was look at it from out the window. So disappointing after waiting so long!  Supposedly, anything that is ordered is taking a very long time due to covid, except Amazon, of course. Amazon just continues to save the day, don't they?  Thank goodness because I've been using them so much since covid which is why ...

We are having soup weather.  Not because it is cold but because it is wet...surprise, surprise.  This is Seattle, after all.  We had really nice weather for a long time, dry and sunny and Bruce even went golfing last week but the rain always returns eventually.  The past couple of days, it has been pouring all day. On Sunday, I went to our local "downtown" in West Seattle called The Junction because the Farmers Market was going on (in the pouring rain but it's held rain or shine year around every Sunday.)  I also wanted to get my presents wrapped at a fund raiser that was going on.  I took eight gifts to get wrapped and they did a gorgeous job.  It was for an organization called  Furry Faces Foundation  that helps low income people stay together with their pets when they can't afford to do so.  I was happy to make a donation and get my presents wrapped at the same time.  There were 3-4 ladies doing the wrapping and the gift...