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Friday, February 5, 2016

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

This chicken soup recipe is great for those freezing cold months. Nothing soothes the soul like a good chicken soup recipe!

When I make my chicken soup, I like to use either chicken legs (skinless) or chicken thighs (skinless). 

What's Needed
  1. 1-2 bags of skinless chicken thighs (I buy mine from Walmart the Great Value brand)
  2. 2-3 boxes 0f chicken broth ( I prefer Swanson 33% less sodium)
  3. onion and garlic powder, sazon con achote (for color)
  4. 1 bag of baby carrots
  5. 1 bag of Muellers wide egg noodles (optional)
  6. A nice big pot to hold all of the goodness  
Let's Cook!
Make sure your pot is nice and clean and put to the side.
Clean your chicken thighs thoroughly.
Add chicken thighs to your pot.
Grab your seasonings and season those thighs!
Pour the 1st box of chicken broth in your pot, 
make sure the broth covers the thighs..if it doesn't add half of the 2nd box.
Turn on your stove to a medium fire and cook all that goodness together.

(Make sure the chicken is very tender and cooked through before adding other ingredients)

The Noodles 
Cook your noodles in a separate pot.
Half cook the noodles and set aside.

The Carrots
Make sure they are washed and set aside.

The Soup
You're chicken should cooked and ready for the rest of the ingredients.
Add the carrots and more broth.
Cook the carrots until they are tender.
Add the noodles.
Add more broth to cover the carrots and the noodles.
Cook on low fire.
Give it a good stir..taste..ENJOY! 

Remember!
You can add other seasonings and ingredients to make it your own!

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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Chicken & Cabbage (Pollo y Col)

Hello Everyone,

Thank you for stopping by my blog..I appreciate the love!

Ok let's get down to it...here is the ingredients you need to make the Chicken & Cabbage. A video will be uploaded as well.

Buy cabbage according to your family size..I used two heads of cabbage.

3 chicken legs (skinned)
3 chicken thighs (skinned)
washed and put to the side

1 bag of matchsticks carrots

4 boxes of broth (2 vegetable and 2 chicken)

Seasonings

No water is used in this recipe..unless you are washing your cabbage and meat.

Enjoy the video...


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Monday, November 9, 2015

Learn To Let Go.....It's Ok!

Why do we have so much stress and anxiety?....It's simple....we don't know how to let go of the things that hold our mind hostage.

Sometimes we hold on to people that don't care about us like we care for them..

We hold on to jobs that we're unhappy with because that money is covering our needs.

Life is stressful at times because of the unexpected curve balls that are thrown our way.

So what's the solution to all this? 

Well we can start by letting go of the people that are not worth keeping around.

Save money and look for a better job. It takes time and effort but it can be done.

Life is always going to throw curve balls...accept the the things we can't change and work on the things we can change.

We can cry and stress over a lot of things but it doesn't change anything...all we can do is 
ask for guidance and strength and take it from there. 

PACK LIGHT!

Friday, October 16, 2015

Grieving....(Missing My Mom)

I lost my mother at the age of 16 and let me tell you, when she died a piece of me died along with her. She left behind 5 children (we're grown without own kids)...at the time I was just 16 and the youngest was 11 months old. My mother was 33 when she passed away, that's very young. 

At 16 you don't know a lot and to go through life trying to figure it all out can lead you down the wrong path. I couldn't function on anything, I didn't have a great support system, I felt like my life was just going to go down hill. Well as time went on things got a little better for me. I was able to block out the tragedy for a short period of time but other things took place. 

I decided that after I graduated high school I was going straight into the Army..well that didn't work out as planned. I became pregnant at 18 which I wasn't too happy about but my bovfriend at the time guaranteed that he'll be there. We moved in together and things were ok..we struggled from time to time but nothing easy, but we made it through. I had my son at 19 and my second child at 20, we got married when I turned 21. The army is no longer on my mind..I now have babies to take care of. While my friends were having the time of their lives, I'm home raising two children and married...this was not what I planned. I became pregnant with another child, so now by the age of 26 I have 3 children and our relationship became rocky. Years later we ended up divorcing, he still took care of the kids and made sure he spent itme with them. 

One day I just took a good look in the mirror and just fell apart, I needed my mom, I felt like if she was here my life would be different. It has been a struggle to live without her. My mom taught me so much about life and how to survive, but what she didn't teach me was how to live without her.

I just want a chance to hold her and talk to her one more time. 

Grieving someone you love dearly never stops..it may get better but it still burns!