My little wheels are turning

Well, I can't afford these from Anthro, but I can afford some fabric and thread...

Let's see what happens.

My Italian Cookin

You will need: shake-n-bake Parmesan Chicken, bake as directed

1 whole roasted garlic head (to roast, peel the majority of garlic skins, cut the very tips off the top, put in a sheet of tin foil, sprinkle some olive oil and close foil, bake 350 degrees for 30 min)

1.5-2 cups of parmesan cheese

noodles (I prefer real Italian noodles. We buy ours at Tony Caputo's in SLC)

Italian seasoning (I use the McCormic Grinders, it tastes the best)

1 quart of heavy whipping cream

1 large can of crushed tomatoes

Salt and pepper

First you pop out all the roasted garlic cloves from the head and blend them in a blender with the heavy cream. Put in a sauce pan and cook while stirring until it boils. Let it cook 15 mins. more. Keep stirring!!! On another burner have a pan with the crushed tomatoes heating up. Slowly stir in grated parmesan cheese to the cream mixture and stir until sauce is thick.

Depending on your noodles start them cooking. Italian noodles, I have learned, cook slower than you regular grocery store noodles. I will start cooking them when I start heating up the cream.
Slowly start pouring in the warmed crushed tomatoes into the cream mix. Add the Italian seasoning, salt and pepper.

I like to have the sauce mixed in with the pasta to serve. This makes a TON of sauce so make sure you have enough noodles to last a few leftover meals.

Don't forget your chicken. I like to cut mine up and mix it with my pasta
mangiare e gustare!

(eat and enjoy)

Timmy McGraw and Lady A

Mi Madre got us tickets to go check out Lady Antebellum and Tim McGraw. It was awesome. It was at an outdoor stage, and if it wasn't for the 100 degree weather, everything would have been perfect! But that's what you get in UT in July.

So, before you start thinking what a bad wife I am about having a guy's butt on my blog, Bill is totally fine with me having crushes on certain celebs. He has plenty of celeb crushes (way more than I do) and we both realize it is human to think that someone else is hot besides just your spouse. So, quit thinking those bad thoughts of me.

Anyway, my camera must have an infatuation with Tim's butt. If you notice in all the rest of the pics, I got nice close-ups but not nearly as close as this. I didn't move from my row, didn't pass my camera to anyone else, it just liked his tush in those jeans. And... well... I don't mind the pic myself!!

He sang all his greatest hits, and was very interactive with the audience. He pulled a couple little girls up on stage and danced with them when he sang "My little girl."

Alrighty, see this old dude in the sunglasses behind us? There were a few people standing in front of us, so my mom and I stood to dance along as well, this guy, who must have thought this concert was the symphony or he was from UT county and he told us to sit down because he couldn't see. SERIOUSLY! We sat, to be nice, but then he kept yelling at the girls in front of us to sit and they couldn't here them. I sure as heck wasn't going to tell them to sit. If you are too old to get up and dance at a concert, don't go. Let someone who will have fun take the ticket and you can stay home, in your comfy chair and watch the news.

Ok, that's my rant. But next time, if that happens again, I will not sit. I will tell the person to go get the usher and have him sit me down, plus all the people in front of me better sit.

Lady Antebellum. I was surprised they were an opening band. They are pretty big, but whatev, glad I got to see them.

Here is my mom dancing, glad she knows how to have a good time! Thanks for the ticket mom, it was so much fun! Can't wait until the next concert rolls into town!