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Mortimer is Missing

From North Shore News July 13 2011

Two more reasons why I love my community - we care and are a little wacky.

How to Make a Salmon Wrap

Tacones are the new wraps. I know, I know...

What you need:

Dill-Mint Yogurt
1/4 chopped fresh dill
1/4 cup chopped fresh mint
1 cup plain gelatin free yogurt (Liberté or Olympic)
3 tbsp no fat mayo
2 limes, juiced

Tacones
Your choice of filling. We used 1/2 lb oven baked salmon
2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil or grape seed oil
salt and pepper to taste
lemon juice
1 pkg whole grain tortillas, Persian flat bread or pita bread cut into triangles
1 cup fresh pea shoots
1/2 cup radish cut into matchstick pieces
1/4 cup dill-mint yogurt
tinfoil
baking sheet

What you do:

1. Whisk all the ingredients for the dill-mint yogurt together. Left overs can be refrigerated for 3-4 days and used for veggie or chip dip.
2. Rub oil over salmon and season with salt, pepper, lemon juice and a little dill. Place salmon on tin foil and place on a baking sheet.
3. Bake salmon in a 375 oven for 15-20 minutes. The salmon should flake smoothly with a fork.
4. Place a blob of dill-mint yogurt, pea shoots, and radish on each piece of flatbread, tortilla or pita triangle.
5. Add cooked salmon.
6. Fold bottom of bread/tortilla up, hold down with your thumb while you make a cone out of it. To cheat you can stick a tooth pick in to keep it together just warn whomever you're feeding.

I had mine with Lindemans Framboise Lambic.

Style Inspiration - Edvard Munch

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Edvard Munch

images from Munch and Photography

Design Lover - Gary Gutterman Cocktail Table

Solid Acrylic - limited edition of six as the custom kiln blew up at that point and manufacture was abandoned. Weighs 357 lbs.

$40,000 in 1977

source: Mantiques Modern

You are booking a room

1977

2011

If you had to choose a room at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, which would it be, 2011 or 1977?

In my current mood, I prefer the 'candlelit, subtly perfumed with incense, exotic, romantic...' suite from 1977.

The Beverly Wilshire was owned by a group of private investors, headed up by bon vivant Hernando Courtright from 1961-1985. It was then sold for $125 million to its current owner Regent International Hotels. The hotel is managed by the Four Seasons.

From the Archives - 9 Women to Inspire You

Originally published October 8th, 2008

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde - one of literature's most fashionable scribes

So if your fashion inspiration is as done as the Fall leaves try these inspirational icons on for size:

1. Marilyn Monroe

Can a turtleneck look sexier?

2. Melissa Auf der Maur

Leggings and Frogging

3. Janis Joplin

Velvet, lace and layers of jewels - very Givenchy

4. Greta Garbo

The Scarf

5. Jill Kennington

The Leather Trench

6. Marianne Faithful

The Maxi Coat and Clutch

7. Sophia Loren

Winter Beach Hair

8. Brit Ekland

The Baby Doll and Loafer

photo here

9. Debbie Harry

Pale

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Vintage Chloe

1980

Quote of the Week - Abraham Maslow

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you will be unhappy for the rest of your life. Abraham Maslow

Full on sass or complete a$$?

Back in the 90s I dated a guy who wore a scarf. It was black with some sort of pattern and extremely worn out. Sometimes he wore it with a tee shirt, other times he wore it with a tank top and vest. When he really wanted to strike a pose he wore it like a pirate, argh. Usually, he knotted it like Stefano Pilati up there on the top right. I thought it looked damn hot. My friends, on the other hand, thought he looked like an a$$.

Scarf wearers are born, not made. Hardy Amies

From the Archives: How to Make a Cool Headboard

Looking for something to do this long weekend? Why not make a headboard?
Originally published March 1st, 2009

cable spool headboard

Industrial artifacts can add oomph to whatever style you've chosen to go with. Perhaps even Louis XIV.

What you need:

* cable spool - you can usually get these free from telephone companies or other companies that regularly use large quantities of electrical wire and cables. If you're in Vancouver, there are a lot down and around the shipyards.

* hammer

* sandpaper and/or sander. I use a Mouse Sander when furniture refinishing.

* tung oil or varnish

* black marker pen

What to do:

1. Remove the top from the spool - the guys at the yard will probably do this for you. While you're there, get them to saw the spool across the bottom to give it better stability.

2. Pound down nails that may be sticking out with a hammer

3. Sand the spool thoroughly and, if you like, darken the lettering with your marker pen

4. Finish it off with a coat of tung oil or varnish

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8 Tips For A Living Room Layout

I reminisce about old friends and late night philosophy...

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't. Dylan Thomas

Jump for Joy

or not.
men's jumpsuits.

Packaging 101

Japanese beverage containers 1983
from A Collection of Trademarks and Logotypes in Japan 1982-83

Things My Dad Tells Me

Dad, me, Mom

1. if you buy another Volkswagen don't ask me for any help fixing it
2. go visit your Grandma
3. you know what you should do is...
4. geez, are you ever white!
5. you guys will figure it out
6. ask your Mom

Quote of the Week - James Dean

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Vintage Mary Quant

Vintage 60s Mary Quant

circa 1966

How to tie a cravat

There are 32 different ways to tie a Cravat. Le Blanc, H. (1828), The Art of Tying the Cravat, S. & D.A Forbes.

During the Romantic period, (1815-1850), the way a man tied his Cravat was an indication of his particular taste.

Above left - à la Byron, right Primo Tempo
Bottom left - L'Irelandaise, right L'Orientale

Think of how today's man chooses his tie knot and fit of cap.