Jalapena Popper Dip Gone Healthy

2 pkgs low fat cream cheese (1 fat free/1 low fat 8 oz ea.)
1/2 small can chopped jalapena peppers
One large can crushed pineapple drained
1/2 cup fat free may
1 cup parmesan cheese
chopped green onion or chives to taste (optional)

Combine in small casserole dish. Microwave on high 6 minutes stir and microwave again till bubbly and heated through stirring occasionally. Takes about 15 minutes. Serve with healthy tortilla chips or triangle pitas. Any healthy chip. Takes good cold too, but most prefer warm. Everyone
seems to go crazy for this dip I make thanks to my buddy Susan for her original recipe---I just
changed it to low fat.....

Thank you Suzy!

Patti's Chicken Vegetable Soup

2 whole chickens
bay leaf handful
fresh vegetables all kinds
6 cups chopped
celery chopped 2 cups
onion chopped
garlic crushed
crushed red pepper to taste (careful use
sparingly very hot)
2 - 16 oz bag carrots
2 c. brown rice
2 cans peas
2 cans corn
3 lbs. potatoes chopped large
bite size pieces
yellow food dye for color
natural sugar sub. or sugar to taste
chicken boullion to taste
1 bunch fresh dill chopped fine
1 bunch fresh parsley chopped fine
2 bags small whole grain penne or desired pasta

In very large stock pot place two cleaned whole chickens in pot and cover with water. Add bay
leaves, good handful. A truly good vegetable broth is enhanced with good amount of bay leaf.
Simmer 4 hours. Strain broth thru collander removing chicken into large bowl. Set chicken with bay leaf aside. Bring broth back to stock pot. Add fresh chopped veggies, potatoes, celery, onion, garlic, carrots. Add dill and parsley and crushed red pepper. Simmer 1/2 hour and add boullion and enough yellow dye to give color. Add canned veggies of corn and peas last. Add water if needed. Add little sugar or substitute and penne. Simmer 1/2 hour. While broth is simmering debone the two cooked chickens. I set the breast white meat aside and freeze or use for chicken salad and use the rest or most of the dark meat for the soup adding it last before serving the soup.

This makes A LOT OF SOUP!!! I chill overnite to blend flavors and freeze portions. Serve
with whole grain fresh hot bread.

Healthy Crab Dip

1 can crabmeat drained
1-8oz low fat cream cheese
1/2 cup lite or fat free mayo
1 cup parmesan cheese
chopped fresh dill to taste
1 chopped fresh sweet red pepper

Combine all ingredients in small casserole dish. Microwave on high for 10 minutes stirring
occasionally till lightly browned. Serve with bagel chips or crackers.

Peanut Veggie Slaw

1cup chopped red cabbage fine
2 carrots chopped fine
sprig broccoli chopped dine
1 red sweet pepper chopped
1/2 cup jicama chopped
4 radishes chopped
1 branch celery chopped fine

Separate:

3-4 Tab Spicy peanut Thai vinaigrette
1/2 cup peanuts dry

Place in bowl. Add 3 Tab. spicy peanut Thai vinaigrette. Mix. Add 1/2 cup peanuts. Serve.

Apricot/Apple Spiced Glazed Pork Roast

One 5 lb . rolled pork roast
16 oz chunky applesauce (unsweetened if poss.)
1/2 12 oz jar Smuckers sugar-free apricot or peach preserves
cinnamon
allspice
garlic powder
paprika
crushed red pepper few good shakes,
be careful or it will be to spicy hot
celery salt
minced onion (dried) or chop fresh grn onion
chopped parsley

Cover dusting generously with all spices except parsley. Place in crock pot. cover with jar of
applesauce, cover with spoonfuls of preserves, cover with more onion, top with parsley. Place
on low all day. Remove juices and place in small pot heat to boil. Mix 2 Tab cornstarch and 12 oz. cold water. Stir with fork to mix thoroughly. Pour mixture into slightly boiling juices and stir till thickened. Slice roast and serve gravy with roast. Add salt to gravy if necessary.

Serve with Italian bread, bread dumplings, potatoes, noodles....

This dish is my own composition.

Man Bait Sandwiches, LOL!!!! From Kathleen Jones

3-4 lbs Beef roast any kind (I use sirloin tip;tried other did not work well)
12oz beer any kind (not light, as miller, bud light)
12-14oz pepperoncini peppers (stems removed;coarsly choped) in crock pot 12-14 hours (LOW) shred - mix package AuJus in 8oz hot water add to crock cook on low 2-3 more hours. Serve on french bread.

I call them man bait sandwiches!! I brought these to super bowl parties (at bars), and other get togethers and the men ate them as if they were going to the chair!! I live close to the Navy Base and the sailors I knew could not get enough of them.

JUST RECEIVED THIS RECIPE FROM KATHLEEN JONES, SOUNDS GREAT AND CAN'T
WAIT TO MAKE IT!!!! THANKS KATHLEEN!

Chili for a Crowd

3 lbs. ground lean beef (if prefer can use gr. turkey only,
I prefer the mix for better flavor)
3 lbs. lean ground turkey
2 16 oz cans tomato sauce
4 cans tomato soup
4 cans tomatoes diced with green chilies, zesty
2 largest cans pinto beans
1 large can kidney beans
4 pkgs chili mix seasoning
3 large onions chopped large pieces
2 bags Trader joes tri-color sweet peppers,
frozen and thawed
salt to taste
2 tablespoons cocoa
sugar sub to taste or little sugar

Options:
1 box whole grain elbow macaroni
tortilla chips
fat free sour cream
lite shredded Mexican cheese
sliced jalapenas
flour or corn tortillas

In large stock pot brown beef and turkey together. Drain in a collander, spray warm water over meat mix to get rid of hidden fat. Place back in stockpot. Add soups, tom. sauces, tomatoes with chilies, beans, seasoning chili mix and simmer 45 min. Add onions and simmer till softened, then add cocoa, salt to taste, 2 bags peppers, and sugar sub to taste. Simmer till heated through.

Serve with options listed.

Thanks to my pal Susan Riley who started this recipe and I made my own alterations.