Easy Crock Pot Potato Soup

I combined a couple recipes to come up with this.....it is a new favorite.  Short on time?  Cook it on the stove until potatoes are tender.  Then stir in cream cheese and simmer until serving time.

Easy Crock Pot Potato Soup
Place in Crock Pot:
30 oz. bag frozen diced hash browns or 8 c. diced, potatoes
1/3 c. onion, diced
1/2 c. celery, chopped
32 oz. chicken broth
10 oz. cream of chicken soup
1/2 c. bacon bits
1 c. freezer corn ( sometimes I add it sometimes I don't)
1 t. salt
1/2 t. pepper
1 T. dried parsley
1/2 t. garlic powder
1/2 t. season salt
Cook on low for 8 hours or until potatoes are tender.  OR Cook it on the stove top.
An hour before serving, ADD:
8 oz. cream cheese, cut into cubes (Not the fat free kind)
Stir a few times during that last hour to completely dissolve the cream cheese.
At serving time top with grated cheese, chives and/or more bacon bits, if desired.

Sweet Breads......

Another old Relief Society Handout that I thought worth saving.....

COCONUT BREAD
Mix together:
1 c. oil
4 beaten eggs
2 c. sugar
2 t. coconut flavoring
Sift together:
3 c. flour
1/2 t. baking soda
1/2 t. baking powder
1/2 t. salt
Mix these 2 mixtures together while slowing adding:
1 c. buttermilk
Stir in:
1 c. coconut
Pour into 2 sprayed one pound loaf pans.  Bake at 350 for 1 hour.  DO NOT REMOVE FROM PAN, Glaze immediately upon removing from oven.  Cool for 4 hours in the pan and then remove.
GLAZE
1 c. sugar
2 T. butter
1/2 c. water
Boil for 5 minutes.  Add 1 t. coconut flavoring.  Pour over bread as soon as it comes out of the oven.

PUMPKIN BREAD
Cream together:
3 c. sugar
1 c. oil
Add:
4 eggs
1 lb. can pumpkin
Mix well.
Sift together:
3 1/2 c. flour
2 t. soda
2 t. salt
1 t. baking powder
1 t. nutmeg
1 t. allspice
1 t. cinnamon
1/2 t. cloves
Add dry ingredients to mixture alternately with 2/3 c. water.
Pour into 2 sprayed bread pans.  Bake at 350 for 1 1/2 hours.  Cool 10 minutes and remove from pans to finish cooling.

BERRY BANANA WALNUT BREAD
Mix together:
1 1/2 c. flour
3/4 t. cinnamon
1/2 t. soda
1/4 t. nutmeg
2 eggs, beaten
3/4 c. mashed raspberries or strawberries
1/2 c. mashed banana
1/4 c. oil
1 1/2 t. finely grated orange peel
1 c. chopped walnuts
Pour into sprayed 9 x 5 x 3 baking pan.  Bake at 350 for 60 to 70 minutes.

ZUCCHINI BREAD
Mix together:
3 eggs
2 c. sugar
1/4 t. vanilla
1 t. salt
1 T. cinnamon
1/2 c. nuts
1 c. oil
2 cups grated zucchini
3 c. flour
2 t. soda
1/4 t. baking powder
Bake at 375 for 1 hour.

BANANA NUT BREAD
Sift together and set aside:
4 c. flour
1 t. baking powder
1 t. soda
1/2 t. salt
Cream together:
1/2 c. shortening
1 1/2 c. sugar
Beat 2 eggs until light and fluffy and add to creamed mixture.
Beat in 1 1/2 c. mashed bananas.
Add dry ingredients alternating with 1/3 c. buttermilk.
Add 1 c. broken walnuts
Pour into 2 sprayed loaf pans.  Bake at 350 for 1 hour.

Chicken Casserole

This recipe came from Susan Johnson, (Kasey's other Mother).  She shared it in Relief Society years ago.  I just found it in a box and decided I should save it here.

Chicken Casserole
4 to 6 Chicken Breasts, cooked & cubed
2 cans Cream of Chicken Soup
Mix together and place in a casserole dish.
Prepare a large box of stuffing according to box directions and spread over the soup and chicken mixture.
Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.