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A whole chicken minus the insides

carrots

onions

garlic

potatoes

1 can of diced tomatoes

1 red sweet pepper

4 dried red chili peppers

salt & pepper 

simmered on low in the slow cooker for 6 – 8 hrs (make sure to periodically remove the fat as it surfaces) 

added rapinni, chard and spinach a few minutes before serving.

YUM!

Recipe Contributed by:  Vanessa Lee, Executive Chef of FRESH Personal Chef Services. 

 Chef Lee provides FRESH, healthy and delicious recipes and offers in home chef services in the LA Area.  Check her out at:  http://www.facebook.com/FreshRecipes

2 lb Stewing beef

3 tb Butter

1 Onion, chopped

1 Clove garlic, minced

1 tb Paprika

2 cn (10 3/4 oz) tomato soup

9 c Water

1/4 ts Caraway seeds

4 md Carrots, sliced

4 oz Wide noodles

10 oz Frozen cut green beans

1 c Sour cream

Using large soup kettle, brown beef on all sides in butter; remove beef and set aside. Brown onion and garlic in butter until soft, stirring occasionally. Stir in paprika. Return beef to kettle; add soup, water, caraway, and carrots. Bring to a boil; reduce heat, cover and let simmer 45 minutes. Stir in noodles and green beans with soup over high heat. Once soup boils, reduce to simmer, cover and continue cooking about 20 minutes. Stir occasionally. Stir in sour cream until blended. Heat, but do not allow to boil.

Serves 8.

Its Football season and its getting colder…what better food for this time of year than CHILI!!!!

 1 cn Kidney beans

1/2 lb Hamburger

1 cn Tomato soup

1 tb Chili powder

1 sm Onion, chopped

 Dump all into a pot.

Bring to a boil.

Turn down and simmer about 30 minutes.

3 lb Pork roast; (up to 4)

1 lg Onion

8 Whole cloves; sliced, (up to 10)

Your favorite barbecue sauce

Before you go to bed, brown pork roast in skillet with a small amount of oil. Peel and slice 1 large onion. Place 1/2 onion in bottom of crockpot. Put roast in crockpot and add 1/2 to 3/4 cup water. Add rest of onion and cloves. Set on low. In morning, turn off crockpot, remove meat, and let cool. Discard onion and juices in crockpot. Tear roast into small pieces. Put back in crockpot and add barbecue sauce (enough until juicy). Cook on low 2 to 3 hours or until flavors are blended. Serve on buns.