Yummy beef and potato chowder

Fall is stew and soup time for me! I made a great soup yesterday and need to finish the leftovers

Beef (cheap cuts), chopped into fine chunks, about a pound. You can use ground beef too if you prefer
A medium onion, chopped
5 large potatoes, grated
1/2 cup corn
1/2 cup peas
1/2 cup carrots
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 cup sour cream
1 cup half and half
2 cups water
Garlic
Worcestershire sauce
dried parsley

Cook the beef until brown the onions until translucent, add garlic, dried parsley and a dash of Worcestershire sauce. Add the water, carrots, potatoes, and mushroom soup, and cook until done. Then I add the other veggies and the half and half and sour cream. Salt and pepper to taste.

Rich Curried Chicken

This is my first attempt at one of my own recipes. I generally am not a measure sort of cook, so amounts are estimated.

Chop up 4 potatoes,

2 onions and

2 or 3 apples, depending on size. Cook these until almost soft in a stick of real butter.

(This recipes is NOT low fat. But we DSers can snarf all the fat we want).

I added about eight boneless, skinless chicken thighs cut into strips. You can use breasts if you like. Skinless is best.

Then I added

3T curry powder

2T flour

Stir everything around, brown the chicken to take the pink off and

Pour in 1 can, 14 oz, of coconut milk

Add 1/2 cup raisins (optional) for that yummy unexpected sweetness

and about 1 tsp of red pepper flakes, less if you don't like spicy.

I add a 1/2 cup sour cream

and about a cup of water

and simmer for a while to meld all the flavors together, at least half an hour...

Add 1/2 cup green peas or garbanzo peas to finish.

Yum!