Cream Cheese Chicken Soup

4 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut up 1/4 cup butter (or less if you choose) 1 packet Lipton Savory Herb w/ Garlic soup mix 8 oz cream cheese 2 cans Cream of Chicken soup Water to desired consistency

Put: chicken, butter, 1 cup water, and Lipton soup mix into crockpot. Cook on low for 6 hours Mix together remaining ingredients and pour into crockpot, mix and cook on low for an additional hour.

Cranberry Salsa

1 bag Fresh Cranberries, chopped
1/4 cup Cilantro, chopped
1/2 cup sugar
2 Jalapeno Peppers, seeded and chopped
1 Tablespoon Ginger Root, grated - (less if desired)
2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice
8 oz cream cheese

Mix all ingredients together

Serve over one 8 oz. block of cream cheese (softened) with crackers of your choice.
Marge Bowden

Autumn Pumpkin Pie

1 lg can of pumpkin
1-13 oz can of evaporated milk
3 large eggs, beaten
1 cup of sugar
4 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/2 tsp salt
1 yellow cake mix
1 cup chopped nuts
1 cup melted butter

Blend pumpkin, milk, eeggs, sugar, pumpkin spice and salt together. Pour mixture into lightly greased 8x13 cake pan. Sprinkle cake mix and nuts evenly on top. Drizzle butter over cake mix and nuts. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes.

Mexican Hominy Soup

1 large can of hominy, drained
2 large chicken breasts, cooked and shredded into small pieces
6 tomatillos, boiled & pureed in blender
4 cups of water with 4 chicken bullion cubes
5 green onions, diced
1 small can of salsa verde

Bring to a boil. Then simmer on low. Add juice from 2 limes and about 1/4 cup of chopped cilantro. Serve soup in bowls. Top with chopped cabbage or chopped iceberg lettuce and sour cream. ( if you can't find tomatillos, you can substitute with a very large can of salsa verde)

Purple Passion

6 oz pkg of raspberry jello
3 oz of cream cheese
1 can crushed pineapple
1 can blueberries
1/2 pint of whipping cream

Dissolve jello in 1 cup of boiling water, add cream cheese and whisk in cream cheese well. Add pineapple & blueberries. Chill until partially set, then fold in whipped cream and chill.