Sylvia's Scenario

We've been eating this recipe a lot lately because the cauliflower has been looking so good in the stores. Even Trader Joe's, who usually only has pre-packaged produce, had whole, fresh, cauliflower so I grabbed one.  I have a bunch of recipes piled up to post and now that we're snowed in,  I'm getting caught up.  It snowed again last night so here we go again! But I did have to go out today for my morning Pilates class that I usually walk to but the the sidewalks were too slushy so I drove the one mile.  I walk to Pilates 3X/week and walk to  Barre 3  2X/week.  There is a Barre 3 class everyday that I can go to but I usually just go 2X week because I also go to Pilates.  I feel so lucky that I can walk to everything in our neighborhood.  We even started walking to church on Sundays.  The furthest anything is around here is less than two miles.  We really wanted a neighborhood with a high walk score when we moved back to S...

This is sort of a random recipe that I wasn't planning to post but my family all loved it so much that I knew it was a keeper.  I got the recipe from  Sally's Baking Addiction  at the spur of the moment when my 4-year-old grandson decided at the last minute he wanted a banana cake for his birthday. The only difference between my recipe and the original recipe is that I made my cake into a layered cake instead of putting it in a 9” X 13" pan...you know, to get that traditional birthday cake look and to get that birthday cake look that's decorated by a 6-year-old and 4-year-old. I also made  Beatty's Chocolate Cake  for Lauren, the same cake I made to celebrate all five of the July birthdays last year.    This year, we all got individual celebrations and cakes.  How lucky is that?                                      You can safely say that we all got...

I am continuing my quest for more summer salads.  One salad that I eat a lot for lunch is this  Green Goddess Salad with Tuna .  I've changed it up recently now with the addition of beans and this recipe has an easier salad dressing of just olive oil and lemon juice so it's super easy.  I love a tuna salad for lunch or any salad with chicken breast which can be easily substituted in both these recipes.  This tuna chickpea salad is another recipe from  Hannah Freese, RD   and Bruce loves it as much as I do.   I like adding it to a bed of lettuce because the salad dressing tastes good with lettuce, too.  I generally don't drain the can of tuna so I get lots of juice in the mixture.  That allows extra liquid for the salad dressing so there is plenty for the lettuce, too.  Hannah's recipes are all part of my "anti-inflammatory diet".  I really got to test it out these past few weeks because I had my second total knee replacement on...

I wasn't joking when I said this is our year of reconstruction with our house being remodeled and having a  total hip replacement  in February.  I'm on a roll right now so on August 15th, I had my right knee done, too.  Both my knees need a total knee replacement which is a bummer but I need to just buckle up and get it done.  My hip surgery went so well that I wasn't so fearful of the knee surgery, although everyone keeps telling me they are totally different experiences.  I realize their differences but I was still eager to get it over with.   I'm currently post op. day # 9 and it hasn't been that bad at all.  If I was to give anybody advise about this surgery, it would be PAIN CONTROL.  Duh.  I know that sounds obvious but twice I tried reducing my pain meds because I was feeling so good and twice I ended up increasing them back up to the prescribed amount.  I need to be doing my PT exercises 3X/day and I can't d...