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Cheese/Ranch Tater Tot Picnic Night Casserole

posted on : July 6, 2018 posted by : nicolesteinthal 0 Comment

I just got back from picnic night with friends and everyone brought the most outrageous dishes. My blogger friend Totally Tikaa posted this amazing Cheese/Ranch Tater Tot Casserole for the Holiday. She says it is incredible. I am making this for picnic night next week!! Bon Appetit!!!!

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4th of July Party

posted on : July 5, 2018 posted by : nicolesteinthal 0 Comment

Happy 4th!!!!! Here are some of my favorite party ideas!!! Wish we were celebrating together!!!

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Stile Armonk

posted on : July 3, 2018 posted by : nicolesteinthal 0 Comment

There’s a hidden GEM in Armonk that I found last weekend, Stile. The owner Julie is incredible and has a great eye. She really curates the store to have a great mix of fashionable clothing, and accessories, gorgeous contemporary artwork, and chic items for the home. Julie just stocked the shop with new summer arrivals and already started their EPIC summer sale. Now is the time to run over for Jumpsuits, Jeans, Dresses, Gifts and so much more. Stile also has a great user friendly website, click HERE to check it out.

I could not decide what I loved more the bag or the artwork.

How great are these silhouettes…they have a bunch of colors, patterns you can choose from. If silhouettes are not your thing, this same artist had a bunch of great pieces in the store!!

The earring selection was so great…I love the long ball ombre earrings!

I loved this vegan leather jacket. It was so lightweight. I think it would look great over a dress on a cool summer night.

Julie tells me that these logo sweat pants are flying out the door. And there are a bunch of logos/patches you can choose from for your own custom design.

I could not resist this cute Hampton Sweatshirt.

There were a bunch of really pretty feminine blouses to choose from.

I love this dress…Its really hard to find a good white dress!!

These candles would really stand out anywhere in your home. I love the super tall ones.

These bracelets made from repurposed channel buttons were really incredible.

The jeans selection went on and on!!

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Book Club Monday

posted on : July 3, 2018 posted by : nicolesteinthal 0 Comment

This week’s book choice is for all you fashion lovers!!! Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de la Falaise and the House of St Laurent is a must read for anyone who follows haute fashion. Here is the wonderful untold story:

Dauntless,“in the bone” style made Loulou de La Falaise one of the great fashion firebrands of the twentieth century. Descending in a direct line from Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli, she was celebrated at her death in 2011, aged just sixty-four, as the “highest of haute bohemia,” a feckless adventuress in the art of living―and the one person Yves Saint Laurent could not live without.

Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008) was the most influential designer of his times; possibly also the most neurasthenic. In an exquisitely intimate, sometimes painful personal and professional relationship, Loulou de La Falaise was his creative right hand, muse, alter ego and the virtuoso behind all the devastatingly flamboyant accessories that were a crucial component of the YSL “look.” For thirty years, until his retirement in 2002, Yves relied on Loulou to inspire him with the tilt of her hat, make him laugh and talk him off the ledge―the enchanted formula that brought him from one historic collection to the next.

“Her presence at my side is a dream,” Yves declares in Loulou & Yves. “I trust her reactions. Sometimes they are violent but always positive… I bounce ideas off her and they come back clearer and things begin to happen.”

Yves’s many tributes shape Loulou’s memory, as if everything there was to know about this fugitive, Giacometti-like figure could be told by her clanking bronze cuffs, towering fur toques, the turquoise boulders on her fingers and her working friendship with the man who put women in pants. But parallel to this storyline runs another, darker one, lifting the veil on Loulou, a classic “number two” with a contempt for convention, and exposing the underbelly of fashion at its highest level. Behind Yves’s encomiums are a pair of aristocrat parents―Loulou’s shiftless French father and menacingly chic English mother―who abandoned her to a childhood of foster care and sexual abuse straight out of “Les Misérables”; Loulou’s recurring desperation to leave Yves and go out on her own; and the grandiose myths surrounding her family. Loulou felt that her life had been kidnapped by the operatic workings of the House of Saint Laurent, and in her last years danced with financial ruin. Delving beyond the “official” version of her life, Loulou & Yves unspools an elusive fashion idol―nymphomaniacal, heedless and up to her bracelets in coke and Boizel champagne―at the core of what used to be called “le beau monde.”

On the theory that everyone loves a cocktail party, Loulou & Yvestraces her life chronologically through the charming literary device of oral biography, in which the spoken memories of more than two hundred “voices”―husbands, lovers, extended family, friends, enemies, slightly less bitter detractors, colleagues, groupies, pundits, and hangers-on―are seamlessly interwoven with those of Yves and Loulou themselves. Readers mingle at the party as invited guests, listening in on Andy Warhol and Karl Lagerfeld and collecting clues from Mick Jagger and Tom Ford as the narrative unfolds. Topping the A-list of figures who tell Loulou’s story in their own words, uncensored, are Cecil Beaton, Diana Vreeland, Thadée Klossowski, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Hubert de Givenchy, Manolo Blahnik, Diane von Furstenberg, Elsa Peretti, Betty Catroux, John Richardson, Alber Elbaz, Christian Louboutin, Grace Coddington, Ben Brantley, Bruce Chatwin, Lady Annabel Goldsmith, André Leon Talley, and Pierre Bergé. In a fluent round of sparkling conversation, author Christopher Petkanas brings them all together for a party that swirls around one of the most scintillating women the fashion world has ever known.

“She’s the sounding board,” Yves rhapsodizes of his second self in Loulou & Yves, a sweeping, waspish work of fashion and social history. “She’s never wrong.” – AMazon.com

For more information to to purchase this book, click HERE

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Stuffed Chicken Breasts with Prosciutto and Mozzerella

posted on : June 29, 2018 posted by : nicolesteinthal 0 Comment

I was scrolling through my sponsor, Hilary’s Table page and found this recipe. I think it is a quick easy summer supper! Hilary is really remarkable, she believes that family time starts with meal time. She holds amazing cooking classes for kids, college age students and adults throughout the year. Stay tuned for a blog cooking group coming in the fall and a back to college cooking class in August!!! Bon Appetit!!

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Ingredients

4-5 chicken breasts
8-10 slices of prosciutto, chopped
1 cup of basil leaves, torn
2 cups of shredded mozzarella
1 bunch of kale
3 garlic cloves, minced
olive oil
salt and pepper

In a bowl, combine the chopped prosciutto, basil leaves and mozzarella. Set aside.
Slice each chicken breasts in half, but not all the way through.
Lay chicken breasts flat on a flat surface and cover with plastic wrap.
Pound each chicken breast until about ½ inch thick.
Season both sides with salt and pepper.
To stuff the chicken breasts, add the prosciutto mixture to the side closest to you and then flip the flap over the mixture. Secure the chicken breasts with kitchen twine or toothpicks.
Repeat procedure until you’ve stuffed all chicken breasts.
Add oil to a frying pan and sear the chicken on each side
Transfer chicken to the oven (pre-heated to 350) and bake for 12-15 min until the chicken is cooked through.
Serve over spinach

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Straw Bags for Summer

posted on : June 28, 2018 posted by : nicolesteinthal 1 Comment

This was one of my favorite posts to write…I LOVE handbags but I most especially love summer bags. There is nothing cuter than a straw bag with a summer dress. This year I have found so many great ones. I have my eye on the round colorful one below and I am swooning over the leopard frayed one. Anthropologie had an incredible selection this year in all price points as well. There were also some well priced ones in my shopping guides Here, and Here.