Sunday's Recipe: fig pizza with goat cheese and caramelized onions

My experimenting with fruity pizza toppings continues...
I've made this pizza countless times during October to savor the fresh figs of the season but I guess it could also be made with dried figs. Can't decide which recipe I like better, the one with peaches or this one with figs, they're both so delicious!

If you have any recipe recommendations with a bit unusal toppings please let me know in the comments, I'd love to try new ones!

The recipe for the fig pizza with goat cheese and caramelized onions can be found here.

Have a good Sunday!

Not too cool for school

Mi-Ji and I met at university back in 2006 and decided some time after to start a blog together. Most of our outfit pictures from these years were taken in or around the university and are sort of documenting our friendship and daily life as students. There is for instance a picture of me with crazy hair and even crazier outfit in March 2009 in front of the main entrance of the University of Zurich, or the one in May 2009 right after our last German literature class together or the one in 2008 titled “Too cool for school”. Well in hindsight I doubt that. ^^

Why the sentimentality you wonder? Today I handed in my Master thesis on which I’ve worked for several months and I’m getting closer and closer to graduating and whilst this is all very exciting and stuff I also had the need to look through our archives… Because even though the last 5.5 years weren't easy, the friendships I've built in university made them so much more bearable...

What I wore today:

Trench and Jeans: H&M Sweater: Zara
Bag: Liebeskind

Tuesday's Inspiration

Mixing patterns that doesn't seem to match at first sight = ♥

Source: olsensanonymous

Mom's nagging

A dear friend surprised me with a cute gift the other day! Look at the name!

♥

Learning how to untangle the threads

Blazer: Emporio Armani Sweater: H&M
Skirt: Sisley Belt: Zara
Bag: Maison Mollerus Boots: Globus


Wishing you all a good start to the week...


Quote source: Seensucht

Sunday's Recipe: Zeytinyagli taze fasulye (Turkish fresh green beans in olive oil)

As most of you know by now, I am of Turkish origin and cherish my heritage very much. If you asked me about the Turkish cuisine my answer would be totally biased so I'll ask you instead: Have you ever tried Turkish specialities? Which is your favorite dish?

One of the dishes I love is Zeytinyagli taze fasulye, fresh green beans in olive oil. Yes, not with but rather in olive oil. There is a plethora of olive oil dishes that are served as cold starters or side dishes and this is a very popular one.

I did this at the end of summer with beans plucked straight from the garden. Had I only written this post earlier so that Iconjane, who had a sudden craving for Zeytinyagli fasulye the other day, could have used the recipe I'm about to share.

At this point I'd like to redirect you to a blog I think is very interesting and also where I found the recipe: almost turkish recipes. It has provided me with lots of ideas and and I love it when Banu writes a bit more about the origins of a certain dish...

Even though mine didn't taste like my mom's, which is in my opinion the worlds most delicious Zeytinyagli taze fasulye, it was still pretty good!

Afiyet olsun (bon appetit)!

Just somebody

Blazer & Bag - local shop in Seoul, Silken blouse & Boots - H&M, Jewelry - Flea Market

I promised to let you know the content of the packet - it's a black blazer like I assumed! Mom, you're the best! I wasn't actually brave enough to wear all black, although I stated "black is such a happy color" a few days ago. So I combined the blazer with the H&M Kimono I recently found at half-price!

I didn't really realize that dressing ALL black needs a certain amount of courage since you appear very strong and severe..

♥

Equinox

Remeber when we mentioned the Renaissance Zurich Tower Hotel?
We were invited to enjoy a lovely dinner and to explore the cuisine of the Equinox Restaurant, which is part of the new Renaissance Hotel complex. Since multistory buildings aren't common in Switzerland, the Hotel Tower is kind of an attraction itself.

The dinner was more than delicious as you can guess from the photos. Unfortunately we couldn't capture every single menu course since we were too busy with eating, drinking and chatting ;)

To grant an additional point: The main course we had is listed as "Pimp my Steak" in the menu.
Nothing more appealing than a chic restaurant matching the pulse of our time.

Location:
Turbinenstrasse 20
8005 Zurich

Click here for more information!

Wednesday's Interior Decoration Inspiration:

Designer Lisa Sherry's house


It's been a long while I did interior inspiration posts! I missed posting interior pictures I like and hope you enjoyed them in the past, too. These have been in my folder for a couple of weeks and I thought I'd bring back this series by posting from time to time what I thought was beautiful and interesting. Here you can have a look at my previous posts in this category.

When it comes to interior decoration I'm so torn between dark and light colors. I love the dramatic touch of black but also the sereneness of white...

Taking MiJi's last post into consideration, what would you say: black or white?

Photos:
Lonny Mag Sept/Oct 2011

Black is such a happy color

Collage by me

photos via we heart it, lauren woodward, everyone loves fashion, blue is in fashion this year, angelica blick

These days I feel like wearing black more than ever. My mom told me that she's sent a package and I assume that it could be a black blazer - yay! I told her that I was looking for a simple black one at an affordable price some time ago. I'll let you know the content of the packet...

Toffee colored

These wedges transitioned well from summer to early fall when the sun was shining, so I wore them together with this toffee colored jacket when I went to the boutiques I wrote about in my last post.

I like to wear my hair in a high pony tail to show off the slightly defined shoulders of this jacket.

Jacket & Top: Zara Jeans: H&M Necklace: from a shop in Australia Wedge sandals: Asos Bike: Jopo c/o Urban Bike Store

Icon Brand - Hunky Dory - Pieces of Nowhere - Social Club !~)

Hip, Happening, with some restrained hipsterism meets surf culture (?) and inner city cool. Sure that's an unlikely culture-combo but the Icon boys seem to know how to make it happen. Or to put it another way, the Pieces of Nowhere, Icon Brand HS11 launch went off. As it did last time only this time more so! Yes its been a while since I went out and enjoyed myself quite like this.

So part in homage to the previous post 'its a mans world' I started this post with a series of portraits from the night, some of the people you may recognise, yes I'm sure you will. AND I am having a little Icon Brand giveaway-see the bottom of the page...
















And the bands played on, Jack Dawson, The Money Smokers - who seem'd to channel Mick Jagger and Angus 'Bon Scott' (lived and Drank) Young together..(last shot below). And Bridgemary Kiss all playing the very cool Darlinghurst rooftop venue, Hunky Dory Social Club!













If you see someone in the portrait shots you know, please get them to drop me a line; I think these shots may have a future well beyond this brief blog post. And- well, you-know; its nice to have a name on the picture if you get it hung in a major exhibition.. Well it would not be the first time!

Thanks to all the guys from Icon Brand, I don't know how you do it but do it you do! And thanks to the bands and DJs and the friendly barmen with the Sol beer and, well I din't try the Rekorderlig Cider but it looked very popular. and thanks guys for the goodie bag; mine contained not one but two little camera on chains! I cannot possibly wear two so I am giving one of the little cameras on a chain away, perfect for photographers; see T&C below.

Icon Brand
Jack Dawson
The Money Smokers
Bridgemary Kiss
Hunky Dory Social Club
Icon Brand on FB

All you have to do is 'like' my page and leave a comment under the Icon brands picture 'where you can buy Icon brand'. I will put your names in a hat at the end of the week (Sat 8th) and pull out a winner!



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