Loaded Cauliflower Bake

Just made this recipe tonight and it's amazing!!!

                                                                                                                   INGREDIENTS:   

                                             

2 small heads cauliflower, cut

into florets

2 tbsp butter

3 cloves garlic, minced

3 tbsp all-purpose flour 

2 cup whole milk

1 1/2 c. cheese

2 oz cream cheese

salt, pepper

6 slices bacon, cooked and

crumbled

1/4 sliced scallions

                                                                                                                      DIRECTIONS:

                                                1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. 

                                             In a large pot of  boiling water, 

                                                  blanch cauliflower 2 minutes. 

                                            Drain and squeeze cauliflower of water. 

    

                                              2. Make cheese sauce: In a large skillet,

                                            melt butter. Add garlic and cook until

                                             fragrant, 1 minute. Add flour and stir 

                                             until golden, 2 minutes. Add milk and 

                                              bring to a low simmer and add cream 

                                              cheese, whisking until combined. Stir 

                                                  1 cup cheese until melted and 

                                                   season with salt and paper.

                                          3. In a casserole dish, add drained cauliflower.

                                        Pour over cheese sauce and stir until combined. 

                                             Stir in all but 1 tablespoon each cooked

                                             bacon and scallions until combined, then 

                                        top with remaining cheese, bacon and scallions.

                                                4. Bake until cauliflower is tender

                                                and cheese is bubbly and thickened,

                                                      30 minutes.

                                              5. Let cool slightly, then serve.

 BON APPETIT!!!

THE WAY FOR THE WEDDING DRESS

Here I am,

I want to tell you how I managed to find my perfect wedding dress. The first store in which I entered, not knowing any shops here in Chicago, was where my cousin also visited for her dress and where, in fact, she bought her dress. Actually, if I think about it, there was a store before this, where I liked the first dress that I tried and it was this one pictured below. But of course I did not want to dwell on the first.

Now, back to that other shop...me and my cousin went together in search of my wedding dress. I must have tried a million wedding dresses, believing them all to be spectacular, but it felt more and more confusing the more I tried.

I did not know if I liked the princess style or mermaid. Let's face it, I did not feel like a princess but a WOMAN. The problem with the princess style was that it made me appear taller. The mermaid was not perfect either: it accentuated my body way too much.

After discovering that the owner of the shop was Italian, and speaking with her in Italian, you know what she told me? "Ah you come from Italy, then you have to buy the dress here, you just have to, and I will make you any discount you want." Honestly, at first, it made me laugh, but then I realized she was treating me differently just because I spoke Italian.

Another day, I went with my mother-in-law to another store, having also heard of other girls who had bought a dress from this store. I was sure to find it here and in fact I found several, but there always seemed to be something missing. So, one by one, I headed over to the dressing room and started trying on dresses.

Some, I liked the back of the dress, others, the material, while others, for the way in which they fell. But I must say that I was excited to try all those dresses. I always watch the TV show, "Say YES to the dress", and finally my moment had arrived too.

But not just yet, I tried more and more dresses!

I really liked this dress (pictured above) but my fiance told me it was nothing impressive so I decided to continue my search.

A new day then came, with it a new partner. I decided to take with me a friend of mine. After doing some online research on fashion and wedding boutiques, we went to David's Bidal.

I was in love with this shop...I thought!!!

I decided to try a dress similar to that of my sister, just for fun.

Then I tried another and I was sure to pick this, but I still had a shop to see that day so I said I'd come back. I liked everything about the dress, belonging to the neckline, the jewelry also made me feel different, but perhaps a little too much, but in my head I thought I had found it, before I went into another shop.

A little, wonderful boutique.

And finally my DRESS...LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT...I know the one I tried was in blush color and I really liked but in the end I decided on white.

And the big day arrived!!!

COMING LATER

Later I will talk about my experience in finding the wedding dress...WAIT FOR MEEEEE...I have a lot of material and interesting stories :-)

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WHICH ONE

ABOUT ME

Let's talk about me...I'm 26, I was born in Negresti-Oas, Romania where I spent 9 years and then I moved to Italy, like a lot of people in my country.

I can't say I was very happy to move to another country because the life for a child was much better in Romania;

you had a lot of time to play outside and then, in Italy, you had to put yourself in an apartment the whole day while your parents were at work but anyway, time passed.

                                                                                   The day when we left for Italy - scary like my dad mask

 I made a lot of friends in Italy too, but every summer with my sister I went back to Romania where we made a lot of nice memories.

I graduated at PININFARINA'S high school as a Computer Programmer, but it was not a job which I chose to pursue because it limited my artistic side sooooo...I chose to enroll in college...ARCHITECTURE of course.

After some sad love stories I decided to try to come in America and they gave me a visa. I came for the first time in 2013, end of October... I met my future husband and I decided to move in America...We got married this year in July and started our lives together...and

                                                                                               I really like to be his wife :-)

I really like weddings and if it were possible I would choose wedding planner  as a job...but this is another argument!

I also made some classes for nail technician and I worked in Italy for a while...lot of interests:-)

I'm a Jehovah's Witnesses and for who doesn't know what I'm talking about here it's our website https://www.jw.org/en/ 

And this is me...a little bit of my life!

BLOGGING - NEW HORIZON

HELLO EVERYBODY,

I decided to start my new blog after I saw a very nice movie JULIE&JULIA(trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozRK7VXQl-) which inspired me to start this...I don't know exactly what I'm going to talk about but I have a lot of ideas so I hope to be an inspiration for everybody and exchange experiences about everything with you. I also love to cook and try new recipes so I think I'm going to include some of them here. Let this experience begin.

                                                                                    This is the place where I'm starting this blog, my home :-)