Crockpot Pepper Steak

Crockpot Pepper Steak

Servings: 4
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 4 hours

Ingredients:
1-1 1/2 lbs boneless beef round steak
1 clove garlic minced
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 tbs. hoisin sauce
1 tsp. sugar
1 tomato, seeded, peeled, & diced
2 red or green bell peppers, cut into strips
3 tbsp. cornstarch
3 tbsp. water
1 cup fresh bean sprouts
4 green onions, finely chopped
Cooked rice

Directions:
1. Trim any fat from the steak, then slice into thin strips. Add to slow cooker.
2. Then add garlic, salt, pepper, soy sauce, hoisin sauce and sugar to slow cooker.
3. Cook on low for 4 hours, then switch to high.
4. Add the diced tomatoes and sliced peppers.
5. In a small bowl, combine cornstarch and water and stir until smooth, then add to crock pot.
6. Continue cooking covered in high for 15-20 minutes, until the sauce is thickened.
7. Add bean sprouts and onion, then serve immediately.

Great over rice or Chinese noodles!

peppersteak

~Adapted from Mom’s Budget

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Jan. 6-12 Menu

Monday – Pizza & breadsticks
Tuesday – Chicken Alfredo
Wednesday – Meat loaf, mashed potatoes, baked apples
Thursday – Potato Sausage Soup
Friday – went out instead of Pepper steak with salad

Saturday –
Breakfast – egg-sausage-cheese scramble
Lunch – too full from breakfast
Dinner – Burger King for a birthday party Monkey Boy went to

Sunday –
Breakfast – Cinnamon swirl bread
Lunch – leftovers
Dinner – went out

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Resolutions

So I know everyone is out there making their lofty list of new years resolutions (NYR). I found this article about the percentages of people who keep their resolutions. I think the main thing with NYR is that people make them on the first day of the year. Keep them on their mind for short time and end up forgetting about most of them by February or March. I did fairly well on a few of my NYR from last year. This year I hope to do stick with all of them. It’s also important to not have a laundry list, like I did last year! 🙂 I’m going to be making my list sometime soon and I plan to do 5 or less goals. I think that these Tools to keep up with your New Years Resolutions, would be quite helpful. If you plan on making NYR this year, check those out and see if any of those are beneficial to you.

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Happy New Years!


Ok, so the poll they’re doing on FOX NEWS tonight is asking, do you think 2008 will be better than your 2007? Let me know what you think.

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, Yall!

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Just Me



Bored!
Originally uploaded by Lysha

This picture was from last week I think. I love playing around with Photo Booth. I thought I’d post this to show my new hair from back in late October. Although, its already grown out quite a bit. I’m probably getting it cut again this week. I’ll post a new pic afterwards.

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Catching up

So since I’ve been pretty much MIA for months, I do have a lot I can write about. Back in November, Rob and I went to Atlanta and spent time by ourselves. I’ll write about that later, but anyway while we were there we went shopping and I got an iPod Touch. I’ve been enjoying that thing so much. It’s been a serious sanity saver for me. I took it with me when I went to Texas by myself, which I can write about later too. I listen to it everyday on my way to work and on my way home. I also use it to surf the net where I can get free wi-fi. It has so many great features, I was just loving it up.

Until last weekend, when it was STOLEN out of my car along with the radio transmitter, which was attached to it. So now I can’t even listen to my old iPod! ACK!!! The other bad part of it is that it wasn’t even paid for! Oh well….

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Apple Stickers




APPLE CAR

Originally uploaded by Taxi Lady Joann

Check out this car with all the Apple stickers. I’ve always wondered what I should do with all those Apple stickers I get when I get a new Apple product.

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Judgement

With everything that has gone on with me for the last 4 months or so, I’ve in a round about way come to realize that my occasional judgments on others are baseless, merciless, gratuitous, and unsubstantiated. I now know that unless you have been in that person’s shoes, you have no right to judge. You don’t know what they’re feeling, what they’re going through, or the circumstances surrounding why they make the choices they make. I think after all of this my perception of people and things they do has changed. Judging others is something that comes easy to most. Not everyone is going to think the way you do or react the way you do. I’ve never been one to want to change the way people see things, but I have always belittled people in my mind for decisions they make and wonder why they didn’t make better choices. Choosing to not be judgmental is something most don’t ever try to stop or if they do, I think they’d have to have some life altering situation. I guess like I have.

I’m still unable to go into details about my life and I think I’ve only got family members and a couple friends reading my blog now, so it’s not a big deal to disclose that anyway. I’m going to try and jump back on the blogging bandwagon. It just may be a slow process. I’ve been doing a lot of writing lately, just not any type of writing that anyone else would care to read. 🙂

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Update

I don’t have much of an update. I think all my readers have vanished so I haven’t been too concerned about updating. My life is still an upside down mess, but will hopefully be getting back on track soon. Sorry I can’t go into details, but it’s pretty personal. Thanks for understanding.

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