tuesday things + buffalo cauliflower chicken

I am on a serious cauliflower kick lately and make roasted cauliflower regularly for a side with lunch or dinner.

I made this Buffalo Cauliflower Chicken for dinner Sunday night.

I made a big salad with lots of veggies to go with it for dinner, but it felt like it would be the perfect lunch to have while watching afternoon football games!

I definitely will be making Buffalo Cauliflower this week because the Cauliflower tasted great with the buffalo sauce.

I lightened up the recipe with less fat cream cheese, cheese, etc to make it a bit healthier…. plus it’s naturally very low carb so

Also, I cooked a bunch of chicken in the slow cooker to shred, and used part for this recipe and the rest for my chicken salad wraps for lunch this week.

recipe adapted from Delish

:: Ingredients ::

1 head cauliflower, cut into florets

2 tbsp EVOO

kosher salt + freshly ground pepper

12 oz reduced fat cream cheese

1/3 cup Buffalo Sauce (I use Frank’s)

1/4 cup low fat ranch dressing, plus more for drizzling

1/3 cup sliced green onions, plus more for garnish

1 tbsp garlic powder

2 cups shredded chicken (use rotisserie chicken, or I did slow cooker and shredded)

1/2 cup shredded low fat cheddar cheese

1/2 cup shredded gouda

:: Directions ::

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.

In a baking dish, toss cauliflower florets with EVOO and season with salt and pepper.

Bake until tender, about 20 minutes.

Reduce over to 350 degrees F.

Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, stir together cream cheese, buffalo sauce, ranch, green onions, and garlic powder until combined. Set aside. Toss cooked and shredded chicken with roasted cauliflower in baking dish and spread the cream cheese mixture on top.

Top with shredded cheddar and gouda and bake until cheese is completely melted and bubbly, about 20 minutes.

Let cool 10 minutes, then drizzle with extra ranch and garnish with green onions.

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Some serous Blouse Goals below. Love.

// STRIPED BOW BLOUSE //

We haven’t moved in to our new house yet but have started making some progress.

Kip has been traveling a ton, so he was there for the first time since our final walk through and did some painting and repairs for us!

I am trying to avoid the painting as much as possible… if you remember from our kitchen cabinet redo + then our reno prior to selling in Chicago, I am trying to contribute in other ways 🙂

We are replacing the floors in one of the rooms with a new hardwood to try to match the rest of the house so I am very excited for that! I’ll share progress with that and hopefully we’ll be in soon!

I also found these two bar stools at the Ballard Outlet and love them.

Luckily living in Atlanta, we have easy access to the Ballard Designs Outlet store.

These were on sale for $45 EACH, and remind me so much of the far more expensive Serena and Lily stools that I drool over. And they are super comfy if I do say so myself!

Ballard does have them on sale on their regular site, but locals, they had tons at the outlet store and are 1/4 of the sale price online!

I also love these backless bar stools!

// BACKLESS BAR STOOLS //

Did anyone see Finding Prince Charming last week?

I’ll discuss it on this week’s Coffee Talk, but it was SO. SO. GOOD.

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The best part was that the first night the suitor could pretend to be one of the group of 15 guys and see how they behaved without knowing he was “the bachelor”.

That, and a lot of the guys are super hot too so that helps 🙂

It’s going to be REALLY good. ‘

some turtleneck sweater dress love for fall :