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Pasta Alfredo with Chicken & Broccoli in 20 minutes!

This week I was inspired by an expecting #instamom friend of mine to make Pasta Alfredo with Chicken & Broccoli...an easy and delicious dish to make at home that I always thought could only be possible in a restaurant. I made this in less than a total of 20 minutes while my kids played in the living room.  I have to give credit for this recipe from the amazing @treencake - check her out for more on Instagram.  I was really drawn to trying this recipe because it calls for making your own Alfredo sauce with only 3 ingredients! Butter + Heavy Cream + Pecorino Romano cheese = you’ve got all you need to make your own homemade Alfredo sauce! I can’t believe I ever used the jarred kind --> gross, plus a ton of preservatives.   You can use Alfredo sauce on a variety of dishes - it can be added to chicken, any kind of pasta, as pizza sauce, on top of baked potatoes, etc.  Here’s how to make your own simplest and freshest Alfredo Sauce: Ingredients: 1/2 stick butter 1 cup Farmland

4 Indoor Places every NYC Mom Should Venture to this Winter!

The Winter Garden at Brookfield Place I’m going to preface this post by saying that most of my friends ask me how I find the energy and time to get out so often with 3 kids. Early on, I didn’t even realize I was “out and about with the kids so much,” but I guess my friends were right because I’m guilty of jamming things into our weekend schedule and even toting newborn twins to Central Park 3-weeks postpartum. Maybe I’m really crazy, but I kind of love and look forward to our family outing’s. Don’t tell my kids, but one of my personal tactics to surviving a day in my life as a mom of 3 with "twins plus one" is to tire everyone out to the fullest extent by taking them outside, no matter what’s in the weather forecast! And as often as I complain about the tight living space in our Manhattan apartment as a family of 5, all the fun places and activities so accessible to us really compensate for all my gripes! I am always getting asked by my fellow mamas about activities I am