Sylvia's Scenario

It may be "back-to-school" time and the beginning of football season, but I am still enjoying what's left of my summer.  Is August more than halfway over already? (gasp!)  Around here, summer means lots of festivals, Mariner baseball games, free concerts, art shows, air shows (Blue Angels), boat races, and lots of yummy food everywhere.  What can I say.  I love summer and I don't want it to end. So far this summer, we've gone to Alki beach for two of their festivals; the Alki Art Fair last month where they had a stand selling mangos-on-a-stick that I loved  and then, of course, the big Sub Pop Anniversary concert last weekend that I blogged about already in my previous post. (Our rock-and-roll weekend.)  We also went to our neighborhood's SummerFest that they have every year at the Junction, which is West Seattle's main downtown area.   It's a lot easier to go to local festivities in our nei...

The weather here cooled off briefly for a day or two so I decided I felt like having some soup.  That is something I haven't eaten in awhile since it's been rather hot here.  I've been trying more recipes from the book called  The Plant Paradox  and I will admit, some have been a flop, thus no posting.  Or maybe I should say, they did not meet my taste standards.  I'm sure I made them correctly, but when you're using alternative ingredients, some recipes just taste too weird.  But this soup recipe was really good.  I'd never bought celery root before and wasn't even sure what it was.  The root of celery, I guess. (Thus, the title of the recipe.)  I forgot to take a photo of it before I chopped it up but it looks like a gnarly Russet potato but has the texture of a rutabaga, or something like that.  I only made half the recipe, in case it turned out to be a flop again but now I wish I would have made the whole thi...

Happy Record Store Day! Did you know there was such a thing? Neither did I, until this week. One of our local cafe/coffee shop/record stores is celebrating Record Store Day today so Bruce and I had to walk up there and check it out. We've eaten breakfast here a couple of times and we always recommend it to our visitors, as well. The food is so-so, nothing to write home about, but to tell you the true, it's not really about the food here at all. This place is so much more...and it finally hit us this week. It's about Rock 'n Roll! They are big supporters of local music scene here in Seattle and there is a lot of it. We didn't realize how big of supporters they are until we saw this video from Easy Street Records last year on Record Store Day. They hosted a concert by a local group called the Sonics who were popular in the 60's in Seattle.  We knew they must have been popular awhile ago because of their ages...but we thought they were still p...