This week’s Fashionable Friend Friday is Ashley Krauss, the owner of A Little Something White in Darien Ct. Ashley is a Goldman Sachs transplant with amazing taste and an outstanding sense of fashion and style. She turned these talents into the most beautiful bridal and special occasion shop where she carries unique and distinguished lines. In the shop, which houses her impecable brands, you will receive the utmost personal attention, as you try on dresses by such designers as made to measure Anna Maier, TLC’s recent feature, Heidi Elnora and mother-daughter design team from Israel, Mira Zwillinger, just to name a few. She even has the most adorable children’s gowns by Nicki Macfarlane, who designed the attendants dresses at the Kate and Wills royal wedding, among other designers. Take a look for yourself, A Little Something White not only has bridal couture but graduation gowns, bridal attendant attire, mother of the bride gowns and all types of special dresses for little girls. Ashley also curates her own collection of vintage jewelry, which is not only incredible but truly breathtaking. I hope you enjoy Ashley and her wonderful shop as much as I did!! For more information on A Little Something White, click HERE . Bon Weekend!
This pumpkin bread has been a favorite through decades. It is the recipe of the nuns of the Monsatery of Angels in Hollywood. They have been making the bread and selling it in their gift shop for the past the 40 years to keep the Monastery going. Over the years, their bread has been so well recieved that it has been sent as gifts all over the country, even to many presidents. In fact most people say it is the best pumpkin bread in the WORLD. Lets give it a try!
Ingredients
3 1/2 sifted flour
3 cups of sugar
2 teaspoons soda
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
4 eggs, beaten
1 cup oil
2/3 cup water
2 cups mashed, cooked pumpkin (canned will do too)
walnut halfs
butter
Sift together flour, sugar, soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Combine eggs, oil, water, and pumpkin and mix well. Stir into dry ingredients.
Pour into 3 greased 8X4 inch loaf pans and top with walnut halves. Bake at 350 degrees 1 hour or until wood pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool before slicing. Serve with warm butter.
All last year, I kept getting recommendations to watch Showtime’s series The Affair. I finally caught up on season 1 over the summer and now three episodes into season 2, I am addicted to the Golden Globe Best TV Series. The story is of Noah and Allison and the affair they start during one summer in Montauk. Both are married and their story is full of drama, tragety, love and pain. The setting is amazing, especially if you spend the summers on the East End of Long Island, you will recognize many of the regualar spots. I will warn you that it is at times racy, maybe too much for cable TV. But, the story is worth it, especailly since the hour is broken down into Noah’s point of view and then Allison’s point of view. Its really cool to watch how the same situtation can be perceived so differently by two people, down to what clothing each wore. It makes you think of your own life and how you and the important people in it experience the same things, yet perceive them so differently. Give The Affair, a try….Let me know what you think!!!
