Eggplant Zucchini Veggie pizza with Pesto and Feta – aka slice of heaven

I made this last night – and ben and i agreed that it was in the top three pizzas we have ever eaten.  I made up the recipe and thought you would enjoy!

Ingredients-

1 large egg plant

1 zuchini

cherry tomatos

1/2 purple onion

arugula (optional)

diced nuts (pine nuts?? optional)

1 goats feta or feta soaked olive oil (comes this way in a jar or tupperware)

1/2 cup basil spread or pesto

salt

olive oil

garlic paste

pizza base or dough

(I spent roughly 25 dollars on the meal and it makes 2 pizzas)

1. Cut eggplant into 1/4 inch slices – salt liberally (see video below, the process softens the eggplant and brings out flavor) let set out for 30 min – 1 hour

2.  Meanwhile, cut zucchini long ways into thin strips.  Cut onion and cherry tomatos.  Put zucchini and tomatos in oven at 400 F for 8 minutes.

4.  After the eggplant has soaked – rinse with water.  Then glaze with a light layer of olive oil and fry in pan on high heat.  Flip when size blackens.

5. While frying spread basil or pesto as the sauce on the pizza base.

6.  Place fried eggplant pieces, baked zuchini slices, and cherry tomatos on pizza base.

7.  Fry the purple onions with a little oil and 2 tbs garlic paste until blackened.  Then decorate pizza with.

8. Crumble feta over the pizza.

9. Bake for 20 minutes (until base is crispy and golden brown) at 400 F.  (check the temperature with the pizza base you choose)

10. Top with arugula garnish and chopped up nuts.

Anyways it is amazingly yum!  w

bon appetite!

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In sydney, the girls wear lace up vintage leather boots with floral print dresses.   It is always interesting to incorporate feminine pieces with scuffed up leather.   Sometimes, the best style is when you incorporate garments or accessories you don’t think would go together.  My grandmother always says, when decorating your home, as long as you like everything then different pieces work together.  That your taste is the underlying factor that ties the room together.  I think this philosophy also works with fashion; whether it be an outfit, your closet, or just your personal style.  Here are some floral & leather inspirations – think Sienna Miller.  Images sourced from google.

Vintage boots like this are availbe @ etsy.com or ebay.com

Woods three clear in Australia
BY SPORTS NETWORK
THE SPORTS NETWORK
Tiger Woods posted a four-under 68 on Friday to move three clear of the field after the second round of the JBWere Masters.

Woods, making a rare appearance in Australia, finished 36 holes at 10-under 134 at Kingston Heath Golf Club.

It was a bogey-free round for the world No. 1 on Friday and it came in demanding, windy conditions.

“To shoot 68 today, I thought that was a pretty good number, considering the conditions,” said Woods, who shared the first-round lead after Thursday’s opening round.

James Nitties, who shared first with Woods after round one, managed a one- under 71 and is tied for second place with Greg Chalmers (69) and Jason Dufner (67). The group is in at seven-under 137.

This relatively unheralded trio has the task of chasing the game’s best and will have to make up three strokes against the best closer in the history of the sport.

After a six-under 66 on Thursday, Woods flew out of the gate on Friday. He birdied his first two holes, then birdied the sixth for the second round in a row.

Woods appeared to be in danger of dropping a shot at the ninth. However, he holed a gutsy 10-footer to save par, keep his bogey-free round going and remain atop the leaderboard.

At the par-five 12th, Woods sank a five-foot birdie putt to reach 10-under par. One hole later, he once again had five feet for birdie, but this time his putt stayed above ground.

Woods hit a poor drive at the par-five 14th and tried a risky shot from the left side. It didn’t pay off and Woods was in a fairway bunker after his second. He finally made it to the putting surface with his fourth shot and had a seven-footer to save par. The game’s best drained the par effort to stay in front at minus-10.

Woods had fairly easy birdie tries at the next two holes, but came up empty. He made a nice par from just off the green at 17 and hit an errant drive at the closing hole.

He was on the right side, but hit a strong approach just inside 20 feet. Woods’ birdie try never broke to the hole, but he tapped in for the bogey-free round and the second-round lead.

“Today I didn’t really do anything great, but I made two big par putts at nine and 14 to keep the round going,” said Woods. “I did have a couple of short birdie putts that I missed, but not to drop a shot today on the card, those are always a day you feel quite good about.”

Mathew Goggin carded a two-under 70 and is tied for fifth place with Ashley Hall (69) and Manny Villegas (68). They finished 36 holes at six-under 138.

Australia’s Stuart Appleby (70), Steven Bowditch (68), Mahal Pearce (68), Cameron Percy (72) and Bernd Wiesberger (67) are knotted in eighth place at minus-five.

Branden Grace, the third first-round co-leader, struggled to a three-over 75 on Friday and fell into a tie for 16th place with, among others, Aaron Baddeley and defending champion Rod Pampling, at three-under 141.

Adam Scott is part of a group tied for 22nd at minus-two, while former U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy shares 42nd at plus-one.

The 36-hole cut came at three-over 147 and former U.S. Open winner Michael Campbell and Sam Saunders, the grandson of Arnold Palmer, missed the weekend.

from miami herald

p.s. tiger woods wife is a babe!

British Vogue 05/83

Photographer: Patrick Demarchelier
Model: Bonnie Berman

I was flipping through Australian Vogue and saw an article on this fashion editorial from 1983.  What really caught my attention was the white shirt looking jumpsuit.  I thought it was the perfect reinvention of a t-shirt and want to attempt my own recreation.

Quote from Vogue 2009 on these images “Early-Eighties fashion was still hitched to the tail end of the seventies, and funny or off-beat and bewildering.  Demarchelier’s photographs, however; rejoiced in a breezy naturalism that needed no eludication.”

photos sourced from Quality of Lithe

“You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.”  ~Maya Angelou

today I have been remembering the places I have called “home”… so many wonderful memories, friendships, and emotions… time to revisit the past…

where it all began – jackson hole, wyoming :) this is a picture from our porch! unbelievable!!!

j hole

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paradise valley, az (sooo nostalgic for this home!)

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the chee! boulder, colorado

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grandview – boulder, colorado (miss this so badly!)

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nappy ness aka 177 bleecker, nyc

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sydney, australia

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sanborn – forever my home away from home :)

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Top 2 underated things for me today are

1. apple’s photo booth (soo good) and

2. snail mail

is there anything better than snail mail? the answer is no… aside from my deep routed love for technology, no other form of communication gets me quite as excited as reicieving a letter or package… it is so personal, thoughtful and oh so classic ;D.  I especially love when it comes in a nontraditional form (many thanks to ali, kate, and my mom for keeping my mailbox full)

here are some creative letters i have been meaning to post…

^ example of keenanevans rss feed

Internet: Useful Tips:
How To Use RSS Feeds

rss feed is basically a way to see if your favorite websites & blogs have new material. (which saves you time!)  Everyone should understand rss feed, because it is the way of the future…

I am currently using shrook as my rss reader -

Shrook – free RSS reader for Mac OS X

Shrook is a full-featured RSS reader that’s completely free – no ads, no spyware. And if you want to access your feeds on another Mac, iPhone or any web-connected PC, just get a shrook.com account for painless synchronization.

This is sooo coooL!

“The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere. To use a Daily Drop Cap on your site or blog, follow the instructions in each post and read about the usage limitations. Enjoy!” – sourced from Daily Drop Cap Site

Daily Drop Cap

Pictures photographed by Mariano Vivanco for Wonderland’s October 2010 issue… I particularly like the saturation, tones, and fashion styling in this editorial… and even though all the Megan Fox hype is out of control, I will be the first to admit I am in awe of her radiant beauty.  She is a nuance pinup- modern, sexy, fresh.  Megan Fox does not look jaded for her “rebel without a cause” reputation.  For being so sexy and “bad”, to me she seems wholesome and relatable? anyways… enjoy these memorable photographs of miss foxy herself…

Wonderland Magazine

PHOTOGRAPHER Mariano Vivanco

FASHION EDITOR Anthony Unwin

WORDS Marshall Heyman

^the chunky oversized jewelry, rich deep jewel tones, and her glowing skin is a recipe for an unbelievable photo-shoot.  The styling is also interesting – I like the juxtaposition of luxury metals & fabrics against the rustic desert landscape.

Reunion by John Cheever

“The short story “Reunion” by John Cheever is about a young boy named Charles who goes to visit his father in New York City. The story revolves around Charles’s impression of his father and the harsh reality of his father being an alcoholic. The story starts off with Charles on a train going to New York City to meet with his father. His initial reaction upon seeing him is one of joy and happiness as he is finally reunited with the father he had not seen for 3 years and the hopes he can rekindle the lost father-son relationship. The father explains that he wants to take Charles to his bar but since it so far away, he thinks its better that they just go to a close place. As they go from one bar after another, his father becomes more loud and obnoxious, which forces Charles to change his whole view…” text taken from essay examples

listen to story here : The New Yorker

^ visuals that goes along with story – I just listened to “Reunion” and thought it was entertaining and thought provoking.  It certainly painted a vivid picture of the characters in my mind.  Richard Ford, another writer for The New Yorker, commented on Cheever’s ability to say a novels worth in less than 600 words.  Anyways, get the story and see if you agree.

Words of the day…

I started re-listening to my old GRE vocab podcasts on itunes – thought I would share a few definitions for the fun of it… definitions from dictionary.com

Sanguine – adjective  - 1. Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations – 2. Reddish; Ruddy; a sanguine complexion ( gorgeous sanguine color!)

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Insubordinate – adjective - not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.

Synonyms:  refractory, defiant, insolent

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Maladroit – adjective - Lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way

Synonyms: clumsy, inept; gauche.

go to stumbleupon.com and you will not be disappointed

has anyone seen “this is it”, the michael jackson tribute movie? i heard it got 4 stars…  Today on Ellen some of the dancers were featured, and they were fabulous!!!! image sourced from google

must see this movie for the dancing!

stella mccartney’s latest collection is stand out GORGEOUS! the volume, the colors, the frills, the fun! ahhhh i am in heaven :D

sooo inspiring!

here are some of my favorites – bring out the color

^it was also the only ss 2010 runway show model Natalia Vodianova (viva) did (aliii!!!!)

some detailing – notice the intricate detailing in the pleats and the volume of the ruffles – love the professional edge and high waisted everything – this collection is creative genius

i am in love.

compliments of style.com

I was in contact with this incredible foundation when I lived in New York

if anyone reading this is available on November 15th to volunteer at Artworks – The Naomi Cohain Foundation Click to Email Kristen the head

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milan was probably my favorite fashion week this year… the video in the music may drive you crazy…

paris to come

more to come