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.

Massaman Potato Curry

2 tablespoons oil 3 pounds cubed chicken 1 large chopped onion 2 cups cubed potato 2 carrots, peeled & chopped 2/3 cup Massaman Curry Paste 1 can chicken stock 4 cups coconut milk 1 cup cashews 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/3 cup palm sugar 1/4 cup Thai fish sauce 1 tablespoons tamarind paste Freshly squeezed juice of 1 lime Heat the oil in a large heavy Dutch oven over medium high heat. Add the chicken and onion and sauté until the onion is translucent and the chicken lightly browned. Add the potato, carrots and curry paste and sauté for a minute. Add the stock and bring to a boil. Boil for five minutes. Add the coconut milk, cinnamon, cashews, palm sugar, fish sauce, tamarind paste, and lime juice. Simmer for ten minutes. Serve immediately, or cool to room temperature and refrigerate for up to 36 hours. Reheat by gently simmering for 10-15 minutes before serving. Makes 8 servings. Preparation Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 25 minutes Total Time: 30 minutes

Granola

10 cups Quick rolled oats 1 cup Coconut 3 cups chopped nuts (Walnuts or slivered Almonds) 1 ½ cups Brown Sugar 1 ½ cups Water 1 ½ cups Canola Oil ½ cup Honey 1 ½ teaspoon Salt 2 teaspoons Cinnamon 3 teaspoons pure Vanilla Extract 3 cups Raisins or dried Cranberries. Mix first three items in large bowl. Then put brown sugar, water, oil, honey, salt, cinnamon and vanilla in sauce pan. Heat until dissolved ( DO NOT BOIL) pour over dry ingredients and stir well, spread out onto two jelly roll pans and bake @ 300 degrees for 20 Minutes each tray. While cooling put in 1 ½ cups of raisins or dried cranberries on each tray and stir. Let cool then place in air tight container. by Julie Winder