quick and easy meals for 1 or 2

Chicken Farfalle Alfredo

Farfalle means butterflies in Italian. Female butterflies , actually.

Don’t get scared this is super easy and real good.

We’re going to need some cubed, cooked chicken. You can fry up a few tenders in some oil after dredging them in some flour or you can get a roasted chicken in the store. Sometimes you can find just a couple of breasts roasted or legs, whatever you like. Anyway cut up the meat into cubes a little bigger than dice and have them ready.

Put the bacon on to cook. Cook it up sorta crispy (no bubbles) then put it on a paper towel to drain and cool

Next comes the Alfredo sauce. You can make it real quick.

8 ounces cream cheese, cut into bits
3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup milk

put it all in a pot med low and stir until smooth. Or, you can buy some butoni or some other good brand and be even faster and easier.



2/3-3/4 of a lb. of Farfalle pasta. Fettuccini is good also.
about a cup of frozen peas. Sometimes you can find an 8 oz. package ready to go. (8 oz. = 1 cup)
1 med. jar Alfredo sauce, (about 16 oz.).
6 strips bacon, cooked crispy and chopped (or broken up with your fingers)
Crushed red pepper and salt to taste



Saute chicken until not pink. (If you go with the already cooked chicken just put it in the pot after the Alfredo sauce). Place in pot with peas and Alfredo sauce, heat, stirring occasionally so it does not burn. Cook pasta as directed on box, then drain. Place in a large bowl, add sauce mix, and sprinkle with crushed red pepper and bacon and maybe a little dried parsley, or basil!. You can also do this with shrimp instead of chicken. Just peel and devein and put them in with the alfredo.

SERVE IT UP !!!with some good Italian bread (maybe some of pop pop’s homemade!) , some salad and some cold pinot grigio!!!!