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Creamy Green Chile Chicken Spaghetti

This Creamy Green Chile Chicken Spaghetti is brought to you in collaboration with Barilla® to help celebrate mothers! As always, the recipe and opinions in this post are my own. We're still celebrating mothers this month with Barilla ®! This is actually a very special and kind of heatbreaking post that I'm sharing with you today because I'm dedicating it to my mother's mother, my Grandma Veronica. My grandma had a severe stroke the day after Mother's Day, and my family is taking it day by day. If you did not know already, my blog is actually named in honor my grandma and you can actually find a couple of her recipes on here! She used to make my brother and I amazing fried potatoes and chile for breakfast with her homemade tortillas , and she absolutely loves to eat and try new foods! So with all my love, I'm dedicating this post to her. With my grandma at my cousin's wedding last year This recipe is truly New Mexican, which is why I'm dedi...

Spaghetti with Chicken and Spicy Tomato Sauce

This Spaghetti with Chicken and Spicy Tomato Sauce is brought to you in collaboration with Barilla® to help you celebrate your mom for Mother's Day! As always, opinions in this post are my own. This Mother's Day, Barilla ®  is helping us to celebrate our mothers by bringing you easy, homemade meals that are quick to prepare and are also made from scratch! I think that nearly everyone has memories of their moms or parents making spaghetti growing up and each family has its unique recipes and traditions. So, an interesting tidbit about me is that there is a large gap while growing up where I didn't eat spaghetti. Not because my parents didn't make it, but because I was too picky and refused to eat the spaghetti sauce. My parents would reserve some plain noodles for me and I would eat them with a little butter and garlic (a combination my mom probably regretted introducing me to as it may have been one of the reasons why I refused to eat spaghetti sauce). It wasn...

Blueberry Muffin Protein Shake

This Blueberry Muffin Protein Shake is brought to you in part by Collective Bias® and its advertiser to help you incorporate more protein into your every day lifestyle! As always, the recipe and opinions in this post are my own. #DoMoreWithProtein #CollectiveBias Did you know that you can incorporate protein powder into many different things and use them in many different ways? EAS Whey Protein comes in different flavors, such as vanilla and chocolate, that you can use in different recipes! Protein powder is sometimes associated with boring shakes, but you can do so much more than making "boring" shakes and can be used in your daily lifestyle. Today I'm sharing with you one of my absolute favorite recipes, something I make often as a quick breakfast as I'm running out the door, a Blueberry Muffin Protein Shake that tastes like blueberry muffins! Protein helps you build muscle and helps satiate your hunger so that you feel hungry less often. Helps boost metabo...