Quick and Easy Alfredo

...and other ramblings.

The menu said we were going to have Garlic Chicken and Noodles with Broccoli for tonight. (That is basically chicken, noodles, and broccoli tossed with olive oil, butter, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, and parmesan cheese.) Anyways, I didn't feel like cooking any chicken since it was just my daughter and I for dinner. But I did have half a package of cream cheese. So I spiced up our noodles and broccoli a little more by making a half order of this Quick and Easy Alfredo Sauce. It was indeed quick and easy, but also rich and good. I figure a block of cream cheese for about $1 from Aldi to make this sauce is cheaper than buying the 1/2 and 1/2 or cream that are often used for other versions of Alfredo sauce.

On another note, I finally made the Zucchini Bars last week. Hmm. They did not turn out nearly as cake-like as the ones my mother-in-law brought us. Maybe my zucchini had too much liquid, I don't know. But my husband would not eat them, even with the cream cheese frosting - his favorite. Thankfully my sister visited this past weekend and liked them. Otherwise I would have been eating the whole pan by myself. The cream cheese frosting saved them.

We all really enjoyed the Cheesy Potato Soup and will be saving that recipe.

I did a cool project recently that I want to share... hopefully in the next week or so.

Check out the Mei Tai baby carrier that my cousin Mandy made! Didn't she do an awesome job?

I need to get going on Christmas shopping. I'd like to finish it in the next month and a half. Yikes!