AMAZING ALFREDO

So tonight I made a recipe that my sisters have both been raving about and that it tastes as good as Olive Garden's alfredo.  We LOVED it!! It definitely met up to the high expectations that everyone had been talking about!!

Amazing Alfredo by Missy Hendricks

10 ounces of pasta
1/2 c. butter
3 cloves of garlic, chopped
1 c. heavy cream (I actually used a little more to make it not so thick)
1 egg yolk
2 c. fresh parmesan cheese
2 Tbsp. dried parsley
1 tsp. pepper

Cook pasta with 1 Tbsp. olive oil until noodles are soft.  In large skillet, melt butter and then add garlic.  Cook on low 5 minutes.
In small bowl mix 1/4 c. cream and egg yolk.  Beat and set aside. 
Pour remaining cream into pan with butter and garlic.  Increase heat to med high and whisk.  When cream starts to boil, slowly add cream egg mixture.  You don't want egg to curdle so keep mixing.  Mix until blended.
Add pepper, parsley, and cheese and mix until smooth (this is when I added a little more cream).
Serve over pasta and enjoy!!!

I also tried these breadsticks with it and they were very EASY to make and delicious also!!!

Quick Soft Breadsticks from food.com

1 cup warm water
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup oil
3 cups bread flour (I used regular old flour)
2 1/2 teaspoons yeast

Directions:

1 Make dough using your favorite method- bread machine, mixer or by hand.

2 Roll out into a 10x12 inch rectangle.

3 Cut into strips about 3/4 inch wide.

4 Give each strip a twist and place on a greased cookie sheet.

5 Let rise for at least 20 minutes or more if you have time.

6 Bake at 375 for 10-15 minutes.

7 Brush with butter and sprinkle with garlic salt and parmesan cheese.

July 2012

July 2012

4th of July and Ethan's birthday!

We kind of celebrated these two days together.  We met up with my family at Thanksgiving Point on the night of the 4th to watch the fireworks and celebrated Ethan's birthday too!  He got a cool car ramp and cars and outfits from Grandma and Grandpa Cookie.  The Hendricks gave him a cool light saber that he loves.  We gave him a cool little stand up toy with balls and music.  Everyone bought the kids cool light up toys that they loved playing with as it got dark.  The all enjoyed the fireworks and even little E didn't mind.  It was a fun night!

E is officially 1 years old!! Love this little guy so much!!

Duck Park and Em, Wes, & Hailey visiting

Do you love her little duck lips? So cute!!

 These two are so stinking cute! I love that they are only 6 weeks apart and how they even make the same silly faces! They also like to copy each other doing things which is so funny!

Krissy and I went to Mall of America with my parents (and just so you know Jake was invited to come but he said he was too busy with work!!).  We had an awesome trip!! It was such a blast shopping for 5 days in a row in a awesome mall.  And yes, we did do other things too!! Thanks so much for Mom and Dad for taking us and giving us LOTS of money to spend!! We had such a great time!!!

 Some money for shopping! Yahoo!

 Mom & Dad trying to get excited!

 Awesomeness!

 Our kids loved this!

 We even talked Dad into getting pedis! Our feet actually hurt from shopping and walking so much!

 House of Mirrors-a maze with mirrors everywhere.  Very fun and yes we did get lost at times!

 Cool shirts that Mom and Dad bought us-Krissy wore hers every day (no joke!)

 We went here one night from 5-10! It was a blast and they had some really fun rides!!

 You can see a bunch of the floors here in the mall!

 Me and Krissy had our own room.  This was our food cupboard.

 This was Mom and Dads.  See a difference?

 We went to the Sea Life Aquarium which was really cool!

 Even Mom went on some rides until it made her sick:(

 Notice the pink MOA shirt again?

 Our hotel had a waterpark which we went to one day and a morning.  We did the wave flow rider which we got some videos of.  Very fun!

 A lego Woody!

 We made it over to the St Paul Minnesota temple.  It was small but still very pretty!

Mom and Dad made it over to a baseball game and Krissy and I stayed back and shopped (surprising I know!)

June 2012

June 2012

For Sammy's birthday she got a butterfly garden, meaning she got a bunch of larvae that turned into catepillars and then butterflies and she got to watch the whole process.  She loves it because she loves butterflies and so she thought it was the coolest thing ever.  Well after they turn into butterflies, you can keep them for a few days and then you let them fly away.  Anyway, one of the butterflies had a defective wing and so it couldn't fly:( Sad huh?  So anyhow, they named it Butter and they loved holding it everyday.  It was sad when it finally died.  They were quite upset with me that I threw him away in the garbage can.  But Sammy said he went to heaven so it was okay.

Do you love that E was watching from the window?? Such a cute boy!

Ethan also learned to walk this month!  Just right before his birthday! We are so proud of him. It was so cute!! And Maddie May is always grabbing him and trying to carry him everywhere and so he is always trying to escape as you can see in the last picture!!



Jake also went out of town for work for a week this month.  My sister Emmy and her cutie girl Haybells came to visit us and we loved playing with them!