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Chilled Mint Pea Soup

posted on : June 1, 2017 posted by : nicolesteinthal 0 Comment

Over the long weekend, I had a lovely lunch with good friends at their club.  They recommended that I try one of their favorite things on the menu, Chilled Pea Soup.  OMG!!  It was AMAZING and healthy too!!  I decided to recreate it on my own.  This is the closest version that I could find.  You have to try it.  Bon Appetit!!

Adapted from Cook For Your Life




1 tablespoon butter

4 scallions, white and pale green parts only, sliced

  • 2 sprigs mint, washed
  • 2 pounds fresh peas, shelled, or frozen organic peas
  • 6 cups good quality unsalted chicken stock
  • ½ cup of cream or greek yogurt (optional)
  • 2 sprigs mint, leaves stripped and chopped, for garnish
1. In a heavy bottomed pot (I used my Le Creuset), melt the butter over medium-low heat. When it has melted and stopped foaming, add the chopped scallions. Sauté until they have softened.
2. Add the whole mint sprigs and sauté for a couple of minutes then add the peas and salt to taste. Add the stock and cook until the peas are just soft and bright green, this will go fast for frozen peas. Remove the mint sprigs and blend until the soup is completely smooth. Check for seasoning and add cream or yogurt, if using.
3. Let the soup chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours. Serve cold with chopped mint.

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Bow and Drape

posted on : May 31, 2017 posted by : nicolesteinthal 0 Comment

I found the absolute greatest clothing company, Bow and Drape!!  The cheeky pieces come with the cutest sayings in sequins on sweatshirts, tees, jackets and even pet clothes!!  Bow and Drape has been featured lately in all the top magazines and TV shows.  My girls are obsessed and so am I.   They wear them with jeans, leggings and jean shorts. You can even customize your own saying.  My favorite is “Vogue For Breakfast”!!!  To see the entire must have collection, click HERE.

Thank you to Bow and Drape for sponsoring this post but as always, all thoughts and opinions expressed above are my own.

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Things That Caught My Eye This Week

posted on : May 30, 2017 posted by : nicolesteinthal 0 Comment

I wanted to share with you some of the things that I have added to my shopping cart and wish list lately.  I feel like each one is such a winner.  I know you will not be able to resist!!!!!  Happy Shopping!!!!

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I have been buying this for friends for the past month or so and everyone is getting the biggest kick out of it!!!!


I love these for the pool or beach….They come in a bunch of colors.


I am DYING for this splurge. It is so incredible and perfect with all summer outfits.


I received a sample of this last month and now I am hooked…..You will LOVE this product.


My daughter has been dying for a swing chair for our patio. She reads and does homework out there all the time. I just got her this for her upcoming bday!!! SHHHHHHHHHHH


Speaking of Bday gifts…this has been our go to for my girl’s friends that have spring & Summer B- days!!!!!


According to a high profile stylist, this is the BEST product on the market today!!!!


I am counting down the days until this is released…you can pre-order your copy NOW!!!!

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Book Club Monday

posted on : May 29, 2017 posted by : nicolesteinthal 0 Comment

Happy Memorial Day!!! I just love this week’s Book Club Monday choice!!!  It is It Happens In The Hamptons:A Novel by Holly Peterson.  The Hamptons is one of my favorite places soooo I know this book is going to be fab.  I cannot wait to read it …here is the story:

When Katie Doyle moves across the country to the Hamptons, she is hoping for summer employment, new friends for her young son, and a chance to explore a new love affair with a dazzling investor. What she finds is a strange cocktail of classes, where society’s one-percenters vacation alongside local, hard-working people who’ve lived in the Hamptons for generations. Though she’s looking forward to their move, Katie is wary about mingling with her boyfriends’ East Coast elite circles. She soon discovers Southampton isn’t all that it seems to be on the surface—and neither are the people who live there.
As George takes Katie on a whirlwind tour of country clubs, haute couture, and lavish events, she is amazed to witness sudden whims become dire needs, extra-marital affairs blossoming right and left, and people purchase friends and loyalties like a pair of shoes. Even the middle-class townspeople maintain a determined façade while maneuvering like sharks among the wealthy summer invaders.
The more Katie becomes immersed, the more she learns the secrets of both the upstairs and downstairs, the upper crust and middle of the road. The combustion between the classes becomes explosive as the summer tears on. Betrayals, a sexual predator, and a missing person lost in murky waves drive the reader on a racing Learjet ride through impossible twists and turns until landing at the shocking conclusion. When she meets Luke, a local surfer and middle school teacher, he makes her question what it is she really wants as she understands the life she’s begun for herself is built on shifting Hamptons’ dunes. – Amazon.com

For more information or to order this book, click HERE.

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Weekend Real Estate Stalking

posted on : May 27, 2017 posted by : nicolesteinthal 0 Comment

This week’s Weekend Real Estate Stalking choice is a house in my own neighborhood.  This is such a great home and the owners have the most incredible talent.  Both have careers in creative fields and this house totally reflects that.  Also, it has a great view of Long Island sound in the distance.  For more information please contact Barbie Haynes.

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Fashionable Friend Friday

posted on : May 26, 2017 posted by : nicolesteinthal 0 Comment

This week’s Fashion Friend Friday is Glenn Close.  She is starring once again as Norma Desmond, in a limited Broadway engagement of Sunset Blvd. Last night I joined Show Score for their Member’s Night at Sunset Blvd.  I can honestly say that this was one of the most amazing Broadway performances I have ever seen. Glenn Close’s Norma left me speechless.  She was absolutely incredible.  I could watch her again and again and again.  For more information or to purchase discount tickets, click HERE.

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A Night To Remember