Creamy Lemon Scampi Chicken

What do you get when you pair garlic, butter and lemon? Scampi. It's one of those dishes that really gets me because it's not only good, it uses pantry staples making it easy to whip up anytime. It's been awhile since I've made shrimp scampi but with no shrimp on hand, I thought chicken would hit the spot... and it did for my guys! This Creamy Lemon Scampi Chicken was a twist on the classic scampi recipe where a creamy, luscious, garlicky, lemon sauce blankets juicy chicken breasts and served over rice or pasta...

So I can't take much credit for this recipe. In fact, I got some help from my friends at Campbell's Kitchen. I recently worked with them to try out some of their recipes and products, which helped me save some time on busy weeknights to get dinner on the table. This recipe was from their website and my favorite guys, The Baron and Joel, agreed this was a recipe I should make again.

Campbell’s Kitchen offers more than 3000 recipes to satisfy every taste, budget and busy schedule.  From seasonal favorites to quick & easy classics, you’re sure to find recipes that can be made in minutes with ingredients you have on hand. And because they’re from Campbell’s, you know they’re timeless and guaranteed to please even the pickiest eaters.

 Creamy Lemon Scampi Chicken

recipe from Campbell's®

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons butter
• 6 (roughly 1 1/2 pounds) skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
• 1 can (10 3/4 ounces) Campbell's® Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup
• 1/4 cup water
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• Hot cooked rice or pasta for serving

Cooking Directions

1. Heat the butter in a 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and cook for 10 minutes or until well browned on both sides. Remove the chicken from the skillet.
2. Stir the soup, water, lemon juice and garlic in the skillet and heat to a boil. Return the chicken to the skillet. Reduce the heat to low. Cover and cook for 5 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through. Serve the chicken and sauce with the rice or pasta.        

Campbell's Kitchen has provided me with free product to help with my review, but anything I receive from Campbell's Kitchen does not affect my thoughts on its company or their product.

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Conor's Quiet Joy

Autism is a spectrum in many ways including the ways in which it is presented through various media. Everybody, particularly the main stream media,  loves the feel good stories of accomplishment.  We all suffer when we see images of self injurious behavior: common occurrences in severe autism although rarely reflected in the mainstream media or in autism research accounts.  The photos of my son Conor in the composite above show him during the recent holidays in a calm, happy mood that is seldom depicted in portrayals of autism. 

Despite the hustle and bustle that comes with the season Conor, who can become quite agitated by loud, strange noises and disrupted routines, was able to stay calm, enjoy the company of visitors and ...  be happy.  I had not viewed these images when they were taken and found them while saving some recent outdoor pictures.  

I can't explain to someone who does not have a severely autistic child with profound developmental delays how much moments like these mean to me. Conor's quiet joy is not the stuff of a CNN feature but capturing and revisiting it  makes this Dad very happy. 

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Bietoline multicolor

Non si può neppure definire una ricetta, ma era la prima volta che le acquistavo e che le vedevo sui banchi del mercato: ve le consiglio, sono delicate e decisamente coloratissime!

Vi basterà metterle in padella sgrondandole dell'acqua del lavaggio, con un velo d'olio ed un paio di spicchi di aglio schiacciati, rosolare per qualche minuto, salare e... pronti in tavola!

Nella mia cucina 
Padella Risolì
Piatti Villa d'Este Home

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Globe offers most affordable 4G Prepaid Sticks

TECHNOLOGY has made it possible for people to move their world, empowering them to become instruments in helping others in need.

Take the case of Tattoo brand ambassador Bianca Gonzalez who has been a cyberspace crusader for many years, helping rebuild hopes and dreams. Bianca has used her celebrity status and her wide cyberspace influence to be of help to other people.
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Temple Run 2 get it on your Android Devices

After a successful release on iOS platform with more than 20 million download, the ever popular Temple Run 2 is finally available for Android users too.

Well if you had played the first version, you will love this latest version more, now you are not limited to just running, jumping on some flat road with obstacle, this time there are more environments, power ups and special powers.

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The Harsh Reality End of the Autism Spectrum

If you believe IACC Neurodiversity advocates  present and past,   Ari Ne'eman and Matthew Carey,  autism is not something that should be cured.  You won't see much about the harsher aspects of life with autism disorders if you read their writings. In their view autism is nothing more than a different way of thinking, not a ...  disorder ... or group of challenging symptoms for which cures are needed.

No, the enlightened  Neurodiversity thinkers who are selected to represent the mythical "autism community" at the IACC see autism in the image of the members of the ASAN Board of Directors, researchers who work with Dr. Laurent Mottron or successful entrepreneurs.  For them, and other ND True Believers,  autism's greatest horror occurs on those rare occasions when a media outlet like Slate presents a perspective of a parent whose child presents with autism, intellectual disability and seizures, to say nothing of serious self injurious behavior or unintended aggression toward family and others who actually care for them.

I was surprised today to see CNN present a video of a family using marijuana to alleviate their son's very serious self injury.  Below is the video as shown on KPTV 12 Portland, Oregon  showing some painful realities from the harsher, severe end of the autism spectrum, far away from the irrational ideology of the Neurodiversity advocates who misrepresent autism to the world:

Following is a video From Kim Oakley a gutsy, honest mother of a severely autistic son with epilepsy and author of the blog Autism, Epilepsy and Self-Injurious Behavior, also much different from the high functioning autism of  media stars,  academics and ASAN corporate directors:

 

In the DSM5 the APA is continuing the process of eliminating the intellectually disabled and most severely challenged from the autism spectrum.  They are reducing the intellectually disabled from the vast majority of the autism spectrum pre-DSM-IV to the small segment that IACC Neurodiversity rep Matthew Carey falsely presents to the world.  

This forced removal of the intellectually disabled from the autism spectrum will not help them. It will not aid us in understanding why persons with symptoms of autism, intellectual disability and epilepsy are so prevalent in association with each other.  It is not based on "science".  It is intellectually dishonest. It is cold indifference to the realities of severely autistic children and adults. 

Autistic children and mothers were once hurt by the unsubstantiated cold mothers theories of Kanner and Bettleheim. Today it is in fact parents who know of the realities facing their severely autistic children far better than the academics and Neurodiversity ideologues who are once again banishing them from sight.  

Today the real cold parents are the clinical and research professionals who are supposed to help autistic children but are abandoning those most in need of their help. They are, to borrow the APA expression, cleaving meat loaf at the joints. they are cleaving from their sanitized spectrum those who present with the most challenging autism symptoms. 

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VISUAL FEAST IV

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A CITY 

The sun peeps over the horizon, grasse matinée, watching the sun rise from under the covers we begin our day.

The sun rises a little higher, testing the water one toe at a time, deciding to dress in brilliance. Hand in hand, as is our way, we wander the streets taking in the charm, the humor seasoned with a dash of tongue-in-cheek satire, Nantes’ hidden secrets.

Hangar à banane, les machines de l’île, our Sunday stroll. We savor the sights, the imagination burgeoning from the streets, bursting from the hearts of our fellow nantais. The trumpeting bellow of the beast, his slow, lumbering walk across the pavement. Skirting around the totem feet, scurrying back to town.

White light bouncing off the white stone of this white white city. Handsome women, virile men in tarnished bronze stare elegantly off into space seeing what isn’t there as the water shimmers down their shoulders, over their bodies. Winter offers a glittering cloak of white and chill; disrobed, robed.

Music for the eyes, for the ears, for the soul. The city is alive and dancing. Just for us.

Night falls, misty, damp. The lights on the island like flames blurred through tears, flames beckoning, drawing us closer. Night falls on my city and I bring its magic home with me as I crawl back into bed, snuggle under the covers, between the cool sheets. I close my eyes and wonder what tomorrow will bring, what sky will greet me in the morning when we draw the shutters open.

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