tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37260673464791878072024-03-04T23:46:16.274-05:00Geography 541Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04642051915245939243noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726067346479187807.post-80321006967911436332012-12-06T08:31:00.000-05:002012-12-06T08:31:00.313-05:00New Home<div style="text-align: center;">
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Now that it's FINALLY December 1st....</div>
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I'm really feeling the Christmas spirit this year.</div>
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Sometimes the holidays seem to come and go without much noise, but this year, I feel like pulling out all the stops and truly celebrating this most wonderful time of the year.</div>
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I have a lot to celebrate.</div>
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Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04642051915245939243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726067346479187807.post-48398796086969856682012-11-07T08:44:00.000-05:002012-11-07T08:44:00.133-05:00Fresh as 4 Years Ago<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Somehow I ended up looking at detail shots of the Marni Spring 2009 show.</div>
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The colors, piled on accessories, mixed print and bizarre color combinations felt just as fresh today as they did 4 years ago.</div>
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<br />Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04642051915245939243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726067346479187807.post-64008975209524556442012-10-30T18:01:00.003-04:002012-10-30T18:01:33.640-04:00Sandy Seaside<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hurricane Sandy has come and gone.</div>
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While I was thrilled to have an extra 2 days for my weekend, the destruction and havoc she left in her trail is terrifying.</div>
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Between the flooded LES, ships in the streets on Staten Island, and the fires in Queens, the destruction caused in New York City is clearly taking over the front page news.</div>
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Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04642051915245939243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726067346479187807.post-86778772425940845862012-09-26T19:02:00.000-04:002012-09-26T19:02:25.531-04:00Taxidermy Gallery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's like an accidental adventure to the woods, following an afternoon picnic.</div>
<br />Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04642051915245939243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726067346479187807.post-13204910399111056972012-09-25T06:49:00.001-04:002012-09-25T06:49:26.251-04:00Autumn is for America<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's strange to think that only a few weeks ago, it was too hot to even think about sweaters.</div>
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Fall has now truly arrived. The mornings are crisp and cool; the sun sets earlier in evening with a golden glow unique to Autumn.</div>
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Now that fall's here, I'm itching for an American adventure. I want to grab a friend and an old beat up car and head to a cabin up north. Watch the leaves turn to the color of fire, drink tea, read books, and eat pumpkin flavored everything.</div>
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Every Fall season seems to arrive with an air of nostalgia. It's a beautiful serenity that I find myself looking more and more forward to each time it arrives.</div>
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This is an ode to toast.</div>
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<br />Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04642051915245939243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726067346479187807.post-63703000203636990832012-09-19T15:19:00.000-04:002012-09-22T15:20:16.675-04:00New York Eclectic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It actually exists (and on the Upper West Side), but it looks like something more out of an imagination or set design than a real life residence.</div>
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The ceiling really ties the whole space together. With the expressionist brushstrokes on a mural scale, the painted ceiling, and the way it is juxtaposed against crisp white architecture, makes the whole space come to life.</div>
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<br />Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04642051915245939243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726067346479187807.post-70578567292185276782012-09-18T14:52:00.000-04:002012-09-22T14:53:35.604-04:00The End of Neon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Neon has never struck a chord with me. It always feels too much like a "trend," and regarded with disgust as a failing of the 80's.</div>
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While I did not jump on the neon bandwagon, as summer has faded out, I'm finding myself drawn more and more to refreshingly bold colors. It must be some sort of denial of the seasons actually changing.</div>
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The Christian Dior Haute Couture dress above in its amazing chartreuse is a sort of "non-neon" yet super bold color. The ring-like silhouette seem to soften the color so that it is nothing less than an exquisite work of art.</div>
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When I saw this picture of the multicolored agate slice, I felt like it paired back with the gown exquisitely. The central lime color draws you in, but the surrounding varied rings of other bright colors keeps your eye engaged, only to be overwhelmed by the intense details of the contours and color combinations.</div>
<br />Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04642051915245939243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726067346479187807.post-81265558862989093122012-09-17T07:25:00.000-04:002012-09-22T14:30:57.489-04:00Opulent Modernity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of the spring trends to emerge from the runways in New York, that I'm most excited about is Modern Brocade.</div>
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This season designers are taking brocade, which is a material most commonly used in occasion dressing during the fall and holiday seasons, and putting it into daywear for summer.</div>
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The other thing about this brocade trend that's really fun, is that it really is seasonless. Take the <a href="http://www.sunony.com/" target="_blank">Suno</a> skirt in the last picture. You can wear it styled as pictured in the warmer months, or throw on a sweater and boots to keep wearing through winter.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Repeat City by City. Fashion in New York is totally different from Paris, from Milan, from Rio. It’s important to first look at trends separated, before compiling and comparing across all the major fashion weeks. Each city has it’s own speciality in the fashion world, and each deserves equal attention. Once you dig into each city, it makes it really rewarding to compare all the trends from each city to each other to create a great big trend recap that you can reference all through Spring and Summer.</span></div>
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On the runway, <a href="http://geography541.blogspot.com/2012/03/garden-of-heavenly-dresses.html" target="_blank">Carven FW12 took my breath away</a>. But now that it's actually for <a href="http://www.net-a-porter.com/product/321029#" target="_blank">sale</a>, it's giving me a heart attack.</div>
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I'm rarely head over heels for an item of clothing, but this shirt my be the <b>single greatest shirt ever</b>. </div>
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The half-peter-pan collar, mixed with my favorite painting ever.... everything is perfect.</div>
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I'm having to remind myself that this one shirt = one month of rent.</div>
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I hereby encourage you to spend <i>your</i> rent money on the <a href="http://www.net-a-porter.com/product/321029#" target="_blank">greatest shirt ever</a> and invoke my jealousy for decades.</div>
<br />Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04642051915245939243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726067346479187807.post-51829889959481663182012-09-11T07:01:00.000-04:002012-09-11T07:01:00.269-04:00How To Get The Most Out of Fashion Week: Part 2<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Start Looking (beyond)</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Notice scheduling. Pay attention to who’s attending the designer shows. Follow on <a href="http:/twitter.com/madelinejean">twitter</a>, watch the livestream, like them on Facebook. Fashion is an industry and everyone is connected. Start to figure out who is collaborating with who, who’s supporting which designers, which models are walking what shows. It will help you figure out which designers are the “it-designers” of the season</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I personally like <a href="http://Style.com/">Style.com</a>. You may like another resource. Try to pick one and stick to it. The reviews will be cohesive from show to show with a similar voice. This is really helpful when you go to form your own opinion. Don’t let the editors or news reporter’s tell you what to think yet. That’s what the glossies are for 6 months from now. Right now, the excitement all relies on the fact that YOU get to form your own, personal, opinion!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Flip through slides. Watch livestreams! Have Fun! This is the best part! Skim before you comprehend. Get inspired and enjoy! Use <a href="http://pinterest.com/madelinejean/">Pinterest</a> if you have to!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">While not all of us can run around the globe chasing the newest designs, with the expansion of the internet, Fashion Week (er, month) now comes to you. And almost instantaneously, at that. What was for decades an industry event has now unfurled into a full blown PR spectacle that as design connoisseurs and fashion enthusiasts, we can’t help but be consumed by. This is the first part (and a little overdue, sorry!) of a 3 part series on how to get the most out of Fashion Week.</span></div>
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Of course this as a small no. 2 is rather unfair. Identifying your personal style takes years and years of experimenting and researching. If you know your personal style, great; you’re done. If you don’t know your personal style, think about types of silhouettes you gravitate towards, materials that excite you, and treatments that you find yourself returning to again and again. Colors and prints will change season to season and year to year, so it’s best to not declare yourself “a blue,” but rather a “feminine structure,” or “embroidery and pants.” When you say it outloud, it sounds like gobbledigook, but if you’re really looking and comprehending style, it will make sense.<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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I'm not really into weddings, but when I saw images from Dhani Harrison's wedding to Sola Káradóttir, I was awestruck. They look like the happiest and loveliest bohemian couple.</div>
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<br />Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04642051915245939243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726067346479187807.post-56574068625534593552012-08-27T08:25:00.000-04:002012-08-27T08:25:00.624-04:00Gifts from Giacometti<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I spent most of yesterday in the park with the September issue of <i>Vogue</i>.</div>
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On page 494, <a href="http://amaranthehrenhalt.com/" target="_blank">Amaranth Ehrenhalt</a> remembers being a struggling artist in the 50s in "Cafe Society."She recalls a gift, or rather two, that she received from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Giacometti" target="_blank">Alberto Giacometti</a>.</div>
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I love the stories, the connections, and the characters. I love it even more when they blend reality and fantasy, so that the only way it is real, is that I believe it so.</div>
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<br />Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04642051915245939243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726067346479187807.post-11673076356296556692012-08-23T08:13:00.000-04:002012-08-23T08:13:00.194-04:00Things That Are Awesome Thursday: Internet Menagerie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today, however, I landed on the "<a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?col_id=183" target="_blank">Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works 1550-1900</a>" database on the <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm" target="_blank">New York Public Library</a>.</div>
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There are over <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?col_id=183" target="_blank">8,000 images spanning 400+ years</a> that range in subject matter from black and white etchings of caves to portraits of birds, to diagrams of stick bugs.</div>
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You can also search through all the images.</div>
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It's absolutely unreal. Even more unreal, that it's all free and accessible from anywhere in the world.</div>
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<br />Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04642051915245939243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726067346479187807.post-74827934998784755482012-08-20T20:46:00.001-04:002012-08-20T20:46:23.836-04:00Orchestras of Bug Dreams<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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While the clothing is beautiful, the real gem of the collaboration is the campaign shot with the whimsical insect instrumentallists.</div>
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They're a little robotic and creepy, but at the same time they have a feeling about them that reminds me of a forest spirit friend from a Miyazaki film.</div>
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This campaign has everything I could want: beautiful coats, scandinavianesque light filled rooms, and bug friends.</div>
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They're vintage, nostalgic, endearing, hilarious, and intriguing all at once.</div>
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They make me want to spend the whole day daydreaming about a black and white world where people have, not pets, but animal friends.</div>
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<br />Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04642051915245939243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726067346479187807.post-68976098438868281092012-08-13T06:16:00.000-04:002012-08-13T06:16:29.050-04:00Shirts With Words<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Graphic T-Shirts are definitely making a comeback.</div>
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I've really been loving these super simple t-shirts with just words. In fact "shirts with words" is one of my favorite trends of the moment. They're perfect to pair back to a floral pair of jeans or bold graphic skirt.</div>
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Plus, they'll be super easy to layer once the cold fall weather sets in.</div>
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Check out these Ts and more shirts with words on my <a href="https://svpply.com/Madelinejean/collections/74074/Shirts_with_Words" target="_blank">Svvply</a>.</div>
Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04642051915245939243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726067346479187807.post-43360588744282376552012-08-09T21:47:00.000-04:002012-08-09T21:47:09.761-04:00Things That Are Awesome Thursday: Being an Internet Superstar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So today, something weird kind of happened...</div>
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I became an internet superstar.</div>
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While superstar might be a bit of an exaggeration; I thought I was just posting another picture on my <a href="http://rosslyng.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">tumblr</a>... but somehow the Tumblr Radar gang got a hold of it, and I ended up on the dashboard.</div>
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Not only was I on the dashboard, but as part of the "Tumblr Radar," I (my blog of inspirational images) was in the same company as <a href="http://nprmusic.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">NPR Music</a>, <a href="http://blog.thedaily.com/" target="_blank">The Daily</a>, and <a href="http://kickstarter.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Kickstarter</a>.</div>
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Anyhow, I went from 36 followers to 1,127 followers in less than a couple hours.</div>
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<a href="http://rosslyng.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">check it out and join the masses....</a></div>Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04642051915245939243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726067346479187807.post-15251166115013627172012-08-08T08:19:00.000-04:002012-08-08T08:19:00.055-04:00Feathery Pink<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.mediacollective.nl/design-collector/vanina-sorrenti-photography" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="http://davidryle.com/projects/series-2/observations/" target="_blank">2</a></div>
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Isn't it interesting how both a photograph of a <a href="http://www.mediacollective.nl/design-collector/vanina-sorrenti-photography" target="_blank">model in an evening dress</a> and a <a href="http://davidryle.com/projects/series-2/observations/" target="_blank">western landscape</a> can both contain the same fluffy pink texture?</div>
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In one it's the focal point, and in the second, it's the color that ties the photograph together.</div>
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Amazing how well it works in both.</div>Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04642051915245939243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726067346479187807.post-20340124750054230832012-08-07T07:47:00.000-04:002012-08-07T07:47:00.731-04:00Neighborhood Yellow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There's been a surplus of this sunshine yellow in my neighborhood lately.</div>
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It's the perfect complimentary color to these late summer days.</div>
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I was feeling very "California" when I got my picture taken in front of the batman.</div>
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Grey tank top, neon shorts, converse, and super bold sunnies make for the ideal August uniform. Complete with a mandatory ponytail.</div>
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It's fig season, and that means that the fig tree in my backyard is giving me the most beautiful fruits.</div>
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Yesterday was actually the first time I've ever had a fig.</div>
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They're kind of weird. They feel a little like alien brain pods. Which is grotesque, but they're still sweet and lovely.</div>
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Now that I've tried them, while they're in season, I'm trying to incorporate figs into every meal I can!</div>
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I don't follow recipes when I cook but to recreate the dinner I made above, you will need:</div>
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4 or 5 decent sized Figs</div>
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4 diagonal slices of French Bread</div>
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2 oz Pecorino Cheese</div>
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1 1/2 c. Arugula</div>
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5 or 6 Basil leaves</div>
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2 tbsp (approx.) Mint Arugula Pesto (see recipe below)</div>
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1 tbsp Olive Oil</div>
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1 tbsp Champagne Vinegar</div>
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Salt and Pepper to taste</div>
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Mint Pesto:</div>
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1/2 c Arugula</div>
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1/3 c Mint</div>
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4 tbsp Parmesan Cheese</div>
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2 tsp Olive oil</div>
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salt and pepper to taste</div>
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*please keep in mind all quantities can be altered to better suit your tastes and needs</div>
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<u>Directions</u></div>
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-Start by mixing all the pesto ingredients in a food processor. Pulse until you reach your personally desired consistency. I personally like to keep it a little chunky</div>
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-Lay out the argugula, 1 oz of the pecorino, and 2 figs cut vertically in eighths.</div>
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-Toast the French bread slices</div>
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-While the bread is toasting make dressing for the salad. With a fork, quickly beat together the olive oil, champagne vinegar, and salt and pepper.</div>
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-Once the bread is toasted, lay out the remaining 1 oz of cheese (which should be thin slices) on the bread, then top with the remaining 2-3 figs that have been sliced into discs. Generously dollop the mint pesto on top of the figs.</div>
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-Dress the salad with the champagne vinaigrette....</div>
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Then,</div>
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Bon Appetite!</div>
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<br /></div>Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04642051915245939243noreply@blogger.com0