Creamy Potato Soup

In a large pot:

1 onion chopped
4-5 large potatoes diced
2 carrots diced
1/2 red pepper chopped
1/2 yellow pepper chopped
Cover with water and cook until tender.

While veggies cook in another small pot:

1/4c butter
1/4c flour
1c 1/2 and 1/2
1c milk
2 tbs chicken bullion
1 tsp garlic salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1c sharp cheader cheese
Mix until thick and stir into tender veggies.

Tip: Mash cooked veggies just a little bit.

*You can add broccoli and any other veggie you like.
Just make it to your liking or what you have in your fridge.

*If doing in pressure cooker
cover veggies with water
and cook on high pressure for 5 mins.
Then drain some of the water off
mash a little bit
and add the milk mixture.
Leave on warm until ready to serve.

Refried Beans

1 onion, peeled and halved

3 c. dry pinto beans, rinsed

½ fresh jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped

2 tbs minced garlic

5 tsp salt

1 ¾ tsp fresh ground black pepper

1/8 tsp ground cumin, optional

9 cups water

Directions:

Place the rinsed beans, jalapeno, garlic, salt, pepper, and cumin into a slow cooker. Put the onion (cut in two) on top as it will be removed when you're done cooking the beans. Pour in the water and stir to combine. Cook on High for 8 hours, adding more water as needed. Note: if more than 1 cup of water has evaporated during cooking then the temperature is too high. Once the beans have cooked, strain them, and reserve the liquid. Mash the beans with a potato masher, adding the reserved water as needed to attain desired consistency.

If you do this recipe in a pressure cooker, just cook on high pressure for 30-35 minutes per cup of beans. So you would cook it for a total of 90-105 minutes for the 3 cups of beans in this recipe.

Canned Chicken

Fill clean jars to the top
with chicken breasts.
Add 1/2 tsp salt

Place in pressure cooker
and bring to pressure (second red line) then cook
75 minutes for pint jars
90 minutes for quart jars

Remove from heat and let
the pressure release on own.
Then remove and cool for the sealing.