# Favorite dinner recipes #

I love this recipes and they are so easy to make.

Colorful Chicken Alfredo

1 lb boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2 quarts water
8-10 bouillon cubes
1 quart water
1 tbsp salt
1/2 lb farfalle noodles
1/2 cup reserved chicken broth
3 tbsp butter
1 cup half and half
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 tsp salt and pepper each
1 tbsp butter
1 red bell pepper
1 green bell pepper
1 yellow bell pepper
6 leaves fresh basil chiffonade

Directions

Place rinsed chicken and 8-10 bouillon cubes in a large pot and cover with 2 quarts of water. Bring to a boil and simmer over medium heat for 20 mins until chicken is done. Remove chicken to a cutting board and let sit until cool enough to handle, then cut into bite sized pieces. Strain the broth and save 1/2 cup. Keep the rest of the broth in the fridge (up to 1 week) or freezer for later use (great for making rice!).

Boil farfalle noodles with at least 1 quart of water in a large pot with 1 tbsp salt for 11 mins (or according to pkg instructions).

In a small saucepan, heat the 1/2 cup reserved chicken broth and 3 tbsp butter over medium heat until the butter is melted. Add 1 cup half and half, 1 clove minced garlic, and 1/2 tsp salt and pepper, each. Stir to combine, then slowly whisk in the 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese. Let simmer, whisking occasionally.

Slice bell peppers into matchsticks. Melt 1 tbsp butter over medium high heat, then saute bell peppers for about 5-6 mins. Add in chopped chicken and season with salt and pepper. Stir to combine flavors. Turn heat down to low and pour the cream sauce over the chicken and bell peppers. Stir to combine- let simmer.

Chiffonade the basil, drain and plate the noodles, then toss with the chicken, bell peppers and sweet alfredo sauce. Top with basil.


Pizza Bagel Bites

2 plain bagels, split
1 small jar pizza sauce
1 pkg pepperoni slices
3/4 cup diced fully cooked ham
1/4 cup real bacon bits
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

Preheat oven to 400. Place bagels face up on a baking sheet. Spread with pizza sauce. Arrange five to seven slices of pepperoni on each, covering the bagel hole with one slice. Top each with ham, bacon and cheese. Bake at 400 for 12-14 minutes or until cheese is melted.


Recipes provided for Amanda @ Kevin & Amanda

# Take your daughter to work day! #

Well not really but I think this picture is so stinkin cute!

We go to David's office very often, everyone loves Gracie!!!

# things I love # My country

Is the place I was born, where I grew up, where my family & friends live.

People say a lot of things about Mexico but the truth is you can't tell unless you have been there.

I love our traditions, our food (no! Taco Bell is NOT mexican food), our colors, our flavors, our music, our art, our history!

Some of my favorite things about Mexico:

1.- Puerto Vallarta : It's my favorite beach in Mexico, it's located on the Pacific Ocean in Jalisco. It's so cozy and beautiful. Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton filmed a movie there and they fell in love with the place that they bought a house that now its a turist attraction.

2.- Mexico City I was born & raised there. One of the biggest cities in the world, it's overwhelming, noisy, dangerous & yet one of the most beautiful places I know. Full of memories.

I couldn't pick just one picture to post, here are some cool pictures taken from the air.

3.-  Food, don't even get me started, OMG that is what I miss the most about my country!!! There some places here in AZ that have good mexican food but I haven't found the authentic flavor.

I'm very proud to be mexican!

# Honorific mention #

Our house is full of germs! David is sick, Gracie is sick and last night I caught it too :(

Not fun when you have to watch 2 toddlers in the morning & one of them wants you to hold her the whole time while the other one needs a diaper change & lunch.

This morning when I woke up, my wonderful husband asked me how was I feeling & I told him the thruth that I was feeling like s**** very bad so he decided to stay home to help me out. Isn't that nice?

For those of you that have met him you know he is awesome but for those of you who haven't let me tell you how my husband is, he is:

• a wonderful dad
• an amazing husband
• great friend of his friends
• a loving brother for his siblings
• kind
• compassionate
• honest
• hard worker
• respectful
• faithful
• reliable
• humble
• generous
• sensitive
• funny
• smart
• caring
• oh & he is good looking too! ;)

We couldn't ask for a better man to share our lives with.

Baby, thank you so much for all of your help, you make our lives so much better everyday & we love you with all of our hearts! We are so proud of you for all of your hard work & because you are always thinking about us before anything else.

#Mcfatty monday :: Scale or tape measure? #

Here we go again, another week and all I have to say is WTF?!?!?!?! I have been working my butt off and cuting calories like if my life depends on that & yet I just lose ONE pound this week.

Not that I don't like to lose at least 1lb because adding the other 8 I already lost that is a gran total of 9 lbs in a month and that makes me very happy but I can't stop feeling dissapointed.

We live in Arizona for God's sake so 2/3 of the year I have to wear shorts, tank tops and sandals and the other 1/3 is not that cold so I can't hide my fluffy self with a lot of winter clothes.

So there is my motivation to keep going, I'm visualizing how good I will look on my new bathing suit for the summer or how comfortable I will feel for spring training wearing shorts and sleevless shirts not to worrying about my super fat arms.

Which makes me think about this, what do you trust more the scale or the tape measure?

The other day I weighed myself on that freaking, ugly, devil scale of mine and I weigh more than before I started to working out so I was in shock and about to go and eat all the chocolate I could find on my way because I was sad and dissapointed, I mean if you are working your butt off the less you are expecting is to see some results, right? Well I asked my friends on facebook and most of them agreed that the tape measure is better than the scale or the way your clothes fits you.

I definitely can feel a difference but it would be great to SEE a change on the numbers on the scale.

This week I kinda going to start over and not to pay attention to the number on the scale but the numbers on the tape measure so (please don't laugh) my numbers are as follows:

Waist: 34"
Breast: 38.5"
Tight: 22.5"
Arms: 11.5"
Hips: 39.5"

We will see if I can see a difference next week.

Overall I'm happy so far and as my husband says it's always better something than nothing or "pian pianito" as my grandma used to say (That its a say in spanish that means little by little).

So what do you do, scale or tape measure? Any feedback would be greatly appreciate.

Happy week and see you next monday!!!

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