Dante helping us cook!

This is our favorite video - Mom was visiting and we were making gravy, meatballs & lasagna. Dante helped out by cleaning out the ricotta container!!!

Creamy Tomato Chicken

We found this recipe on a cooking blog and thought we'd give it a try.

Our pictures don't look so great, but it tasted delicious!!





And here's Dante, waiting for Grandma to visit in her bedroom!!! This is his new favorite spot...its so cute.



Creamy Tomato Chicken

Ingredients
4 thin sliced chicken breasts
3 cloves garlic
1 tsp flour
½ c chicken broth
¼ c light or heavy cream
1 oz cream cheese
4 oz tomato sauce (canned is fine)
½ tsp red pepper flakes
½ tsp oregano
1 tsp butter
½ c parmesan cheese
1 tsp capers

Directions
1. Melt butter in a pan; add chicken and cook until just done; move chicken to a baking dish and cover (keep drippings in the pan)
2. Add flour to the pan and stir until pasty
3. Add chicken broth and red pepper flakes, and minced garlic, simmer 1 min
4. Add cream cheese, cream, tomato sauce, most of the parmesan cheese, and oregano
5. Cook over medium-high heat until thick and bubbly, stirring almost constantly
6. Pour sauce over the chicken; top with capers and the rest of the parmesan cheese
7. Bake on 400 degrees for 10-15 min

Original recipe found on THIS
cooking blog!!

Peter Pan

So Dante has decided to be Peter Pan for Halloween. He LOVES his new costume, he doesn't even want to take it off. Ok, actually he hates it. He tried to eat off his little sword and then just laid there frozen like "WHY are you doing this to me??"

Maybe Dan will be Tinkerbell????

A Day in Dante's Life

I've decided to start a blog with updates on our life & some of our hobbies here in San Diego!! I'll attach a picture of our son, who this blog is named after! :)