Soups, Salads and Sandwich's

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Easy Chicken Pocket Sandwiches

1 pkg of crescent rolls (8)
3 oz cream cheese
3 Tb melted butter
2 cubes cooked and cubed chicken, (2 5oz cans)
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
2 Tb milk
1 Tb minced onion

1/4 c crushed seasoned croutons and 3 Tb additional butter**save this mix separate and use on the tops.

Blend cream cheese, butter and all other ingredients.

Roll out the crescent rolls and only cut on the rectangle, as you normally would cut corner to corner and roll them up as rolls.

Place a Tablespoon of chicken mix in the middle, pick up and fold in corners. Brush with some additional butter and sprinkle with the crushed croutons/butter mix. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes.

**This recipe would freeze nicely for a quick lunch meal.



Taco Salad

6 cups (2 heads) Romaine lettuce
1 Cup diced tomatos
1 Cup diced onion
1/2 Cup sliced carrots
1/2 Cup of red and green peppers
1 bag tortilla chips
Salsa
Sour cream
2 Cups grated chedder cheese

Lightly toss veggies

Serve with crushed tortilla chips
Top with salsa, cheese and sour cream

This served a family of four

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Turkey Soup

1 turkey frame with meat attached
3 quarts water
2 large onions chopped in big pieces
Salt and pepper to taste
2 Tbsp. chicken bouillon granules
2 Tbsp. fresh chopped parsley
2 Tsp. oregano
1 cup chopped celery
1/2 cup chopped carrots
1/2 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
1 cup chopped cabbage
1 cup uncooked rice (optional)

Break up turkey frame and place in very large pot. Add water, one chopped onion and salt and pepper. Bring water to a boil then cover pot, reduce heat and simmer for about 1 and 1/2 hours. Remove turkey frame and allow to cool. Remove meat from bones. Strain broth and discard pieces of bone and other little things you can't identify or just don't want to eat. Pour broth back into pot and add turkey meat, tomatoes with juice, chicken bouillon, parsley, thyme, oregano, the second onion and the veggies. Bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat and simmer for about one hour. If you want to add rice, add it now and simmer for about 20 minutes or until rice is cooked.

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Chicken Tortilla Soup

2 cans Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup
2 cans Campbell's Cream of Chicken soup
2 cans Campbell's Cream of Celery soup
2 cans Campbell's Cheddar Cheese soup
2 (15 ounce) cans chicken broth
1 (15 ounce) can diced tomatoes
1 cup Pace medium picante salsa
1 (4.5 ounce) can Ortega green chiles
1 medium onion, chopped
4 cloves fresh garlic, minced
1 teaspoon red chile powder, more or less to your taste
Salt and pepper to your taste
1/4 cup fresh, chopped cilantro
4 cooked chicken breasts, cut into
small chunks
1 package flour tortillas
1/2 pound longhorn style Colby cheese

In a large stockpot combine and whisk together until smooth all eight cans of soup. Add chicken broth. Add tomatoes, salsa, green chiles, onion, garlic, chili powder, salt and pepper.

Bring all ingredients to a full boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 1 hour.

Add cilantro and chicken breast chunks. Simmer another hour.

While soup is simmering, make your soup toppings: Cut flour tortillas into small thin strips and deep fry in hot oil until lightly browned.

Shred cheese.

To serve: Ladle soup into bowls, top with shredded cheese and fried tortilla strips. I double this recipe and use a 12-quart stockpot. Enjoy!



Turkey Carcass Soup

1 turkey carcass
6 quarts water
12 peppercorns
3 stalks celery, sliced
2 bay leaves
1 onion, cut into eighths
Pinch of garlic powder
1 cup barley, uncooked or 6 ounce medium egg
noodles, uncooked
2 (16 ounce) cans tomatoes, drained and chopped
1 cup onion
1 cup chopped carrot
1 cup chopped celery
2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper

Combine first 7 ingredients in a large Dutch oven; bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 1 hour. Remove carcass from broth, and pick meat from bones; set aside.

Measure 4 quarts broth, and return broth to Dutch oven; refrigerate remaining broth for other uses. Bring broth to a boil. Add barley or noodles. If barley is added, reduce heat to medium, and cook 45 minutes. If noodles are added, reduce heat to medium and cook for 8 minutes. Add turkey meat, tomatoes and remaining ingredients. Simmer 30 minutes. Remove and discard bay leaves.

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Friendship Soup Mix

1/2 cup dry split peas
1/3 cup beef bouillon granules
1/4 cup pearl barley
1/2 cup dry lentils
1/4 cup dried minced onion
2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
1/2 cup uncooked long grain rice
1/2 cup alphabet macaroni*
* or other small pasta (can be put in a plastic sandwich bag to make it easier for the recipient to get out of jar.

In a 1-1/2-pint jar, layer the first eight ingredients in the order listed. Seal tightly.
Yield: 1 package
To give as a gift, include the following instructions on your gift tag:

Friendship Soup Mix
1 package Layered Friendship Soup Mix
1 pound ground beef
3 quarts water
1 can (28 ounces) diced tomatoes, un-drained

Carefully remove macaroni from top of jar and set aside. In a large saucepan or Dutch oven, brown beef; drain. Add the water, tomatoes and soup mix; bring to a boil Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 45 minutes. Add reserved macaroni; cover and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes or until macaroni, peas, lentils and barley are tender. Yield: 16 servings (4 quarts)

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BRUNSWICK STEW



1 lg. or 2 sm. cans of Castleberry - BBQ Pork
1 lg. or 2 sm. cans of Castleberry - BBQ Beef
2 cans of chicken
1 can cream style corn
1 can whole kernel corn
1 can chopped tomatoes (28 ozs.)
1 can puree tomatoes (28 ozs.)
1 can Rol-Tel tomatoes (10 ozs.)
3 TBSP Worcheshire sauce

Put into crock-pot and cook 3-4 hours or until it is heated through.

NOTE: This recipe is so nice because it can be changed depending on your taste.

When making this for the camp meet I did not use as much of the can BBQ meat or can chicken as the recipe calls for.

I did not add the worcheshire sauce either.

Also when making this recipe I always like to add extra cream style corn. I usually add 5-6 cans more than the recipe calls for.

Again you can mix and add or not add according to your taste.

I like this recipe because it is easy.

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Orange Buttermilk Salad


I got this recipe from Taste of Home a few years ago.

1 can( 20 oz) crushed pineapple, undrained
1 pkg. (6oz) orange gelatin powder
2 C. buttermilk
1 carton(8oz) frozen Cool Whip, thawed

In saucepan, bring pineapple to a boil. Remove from heat; add gelatin and stir to dissolve.
Add buttermilk and mix well. Cool to room temperature.
Fold in Cool Whip.
Pour into 11x7x2 " or 13x9x2" glass dish. Refrigerate several hours or overnight. Cut into squares.

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*This was a recipe my Grandmom used to make, it can easily be done in a crockpot and is very filling and good"

Penny's Grandmom's Fall Soup

1 lb hamburger (I prefer the better burger)
6 cups of water.


Cook this until it is done, remove the meaty scum.

In a crockpot add this mixture and 1 package of Lipton Onion soup mix,

Mix up well. Add 1 can mixed veggies. I pint of tomatoes, 1 cup of macaroni, cook slowly until the macaroni is tender..

This can be done on the stovetop for a faster soup...If you prefer more of a gravy base..just thicken this up with a little cornstarch.

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We in the deep south, ( Alabama ) always grew up having pear salad. Most of my friends I ask have never heard of it. It sure is a favorite of Bro Ben,me and our children.

Pear Salad

1 Lg can of Pear halves

Mayo ( real )

Grated mild cheddar


Put a dalup of Mayo in the center of the Pear hollow then sprinkle some grated cheese over the mayo olny. This is so pretty and has great contrast of flavor.

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Penny'sHomemade Mustard Potato Salad,


Potatoes cook til tender
Onions
Celery
boiled egg

Miracle Whip
Milk (just a splash)
2 T Apple Cider Vinegar
1 T sugar..
mix this up first
Pour it over the chilled veggies and egg...mix up and chill for a few hours.

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Chicken and Sausage Jambalya for supper. It was cool today so I don't mind using the oven. Here is the recipe if anyone would like it.

2 lbs ground beef
1 lb smoked sausage (chopped up small)
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can beef broth
1 cup water
2 cups rice (uncooked)
salt
pepper
Brown ground beef and sausage together and drain off fat. Combine all the remaining ingredients in a large casserole dish. Cover and bake at 350 for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Sometimes I add chopped bell pepper and onions to the cooking meat, but today I didn't have any, so I made it plain.



Darlene's Broccli Chicken Soup

The soup I made tonight has a clear broth. Mmmm.

I started with 5 boneless skinless breasts of chicken in water seasoned with all kinds of

seasonings, including bay leaves celery seed, salt, pepper, red pepper, chicken seasoning, 6 pepper seasoning, paprika, and about 4 or 5 heaping Tb of diced garlic,

2 lg onions diced, 8 lg sliced carrots,

I simmered until chicken was done, then I took it out and diced it, oh yes I almost forgot,

4 chicken boulion cubes, then added the

8 lg potatoes sliced, then

2 16 oz bags of frozen broccli , then aprox

2 or 3 cups of elbo noodles (because I did not have egg noodles ) This made 3/4 of a 12 qt pot of soup.

It's simmering right now Bro. Ben will be home soon with wood for our wood burning heat, and french bread, while the guys ( Ben and Benjamin ) build a fire I'll make the garlic bread. Mmmm. Then we'll eat and fellowship. What a joy! God is good.