Sylvia's Scenario

It's time for the Top 3 posts of 2012 and  fruit flavored overnight oats  has won the #1 spot by a landslide!   #1 I do admit this was one of my favorite recipes and I ate them for breakfast regularly.  And putting food in jars was popular in 2012 for all kinds of recipes and even other household functions.  Now that it's winter, I'm into the hot cereal for breakfast since I am a very seasonal eater but will start up my overnight oats again in the spring. This is such a good combination of starch (oatmeal) and fruit together with the creamy yogurt - just really hits the spot in the morning.  Plus, they are so convenient since you can make them ahead of time, store in the refrigerator, grab and go.  I even bought the nice screw top  caps  for the jars for added convenience and also use these caps after I open a jar of our  apple butter ,  plum jam , or  grape jelly . #2  The second most popular re...

Goodbye 2012 and Hello 2013! We spent the last four days of 2012 celebrating the year's end in San Francisco My reward for completing  my list   and surviving the feasting.  San Francisco during the holidays is so beautiful and festive and full of so much to do and so much to eat! And we got our fill of all of it!   There is so much history  and tradition and we could feel it's presence everywhere we went. My highlight was going to the Nutcracker which I haven't seen in years. I loved the music, the costumes, the dancing…well, everything.  The venue was gorgeous, of course - the War Memorial Opera House…again... full of history.  It's where the United Nations began a very old and elegant place perfect for the Nutcracker with lots of nutcrackers on display. Being the tourists that we are, we had to buy one for a souvenir. This guy was just begging f...