Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff

2	pounds beef stew meat
1	cup chopped onion
1	can (10 3/4 ounces) condensed cream of golden mushroom soup
1	can (10 3/4 ounces) condensed cream of onion soup
1	jar (6 ounces) Green Giant® sliced mushrooms, drained
1/4	teaspoon pepper
1	package (8 ounces) cream cheese, cubed
1	container (8 ounces) sour cream
6	cups hot cooked noodles or rice

	In 3 1/2- to 4 1/2-quart slow cooker, mix beef, onion, soups, mushrooms and pepper.
	Cover and cook on low heat setting 8 to 10 hours or until beef is very tender.
	Stir cream cheese into beef mixture until melted. Stir sour cream into beef mixture. Serve over noodles. I sometimes use hamburger if I don't have stew meat. I tastes just as good and is sometimes less expensive.

Cowboy Salsa

1 can black beans
1 can black eye-peas (sometimes called purple hull peas)
1 can Rotel tomatoes
1 can corn
2 small avalcados (cubed)

Italian Dressing to taste, I ususlly use a little more than a third of the bottle.

Drain all the water out of the cans so that its not soupy. Serve with tortilla chips.

It is really easy! Enjoy!

Homemade Granola

3/4 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup honey
5 cups oatmeal
1/2 cup dry milk
3/4 tsp. cinnamon
pinch of salt
1/2 cup raisins

Mix brown sugar, oil and honey in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and heat until the sugar is dissolved. Combine dry ingredients in a large cake pan. Pour syrup over dry mixture and mix well. Bake at 375° for 10 minutes. Stir occasionally. Let cool in pan. Add raisins and stir. Store in an airtight container. You can also add wheat germ, coconut, nuts, dates and other dried fruit but this will increase the cost of the granola. Makes 5 cups.

Sometimes I add whole flax seed, banana chips, or c raisins. Be creative. It is good with milk, yogurt or just plain.

Jami's Red Chicken

4 chicken breasts
1/2 c. Catalina salad dressing
1/2 c. apricot jam
2 tbs. onion soup mix
salt and pepper

Salt and pepper both sides of the chicken breasts. Spray crock pot with non sick cooking spray to make clean up easier. Place chicken in crock pot. Mix dressing and jam together and pour over chicken. Sprinkle with soup mix. Cook on low for about 4 hours, turning chicken once or twice. I usually do this in a baking dish in the oven, but I decided to try it out in the crock pot and it turned out just as yummy. This is also a Dottie recipe.

Jami's Creamy Pasta Salad

Ok this one is a little difficult to write down because I usually just throw it together until it looks and tastes right. But Here it goes by Amy's special request.

1 box tri- colored Rotini pasta, cooked
1 tbs sweet relish
1/4 c. chopped onions
3 drops pepper sauce
1 - 1/2 c salad dressing
1/4 c yellow mustard
salt and pepper to taste.

Mix all ingredients, except pasta, together in a large mixing bowl. Add pasta and mix well. Should have a nice creamy pastel yellow color and taste delicious. Tweak it as desired. I actually can't take any credit for this recipe. My Grandmother made it up and I just figured it out. Maybe I should have named it Dottie's Creamy Pasta Salad.