Grilled Cubed Steak Rollups

This recipe is OMG SO DANG good. My family LOVED this and it was so stinkin easy. I heart Easy......

The only modification that I made to this recipe was I left out the fresh parsley.

Grilled Cubed Steak Rollups
(adapted from Recipezaar)


4-5 pieces cube steaks
marinade (recipe below)
2 oz cream cheese, softened
4-5 pieces bacon (raw)
1 sprig fresh parsley, minced, (stem too)

Marinade

1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
6 tablespoons soy sauce
1/4 cup minced garlic
1/2 medium onion, chopped
1 tablespoon pepper
1 tablespoon crushed dried rosemary
3 tablespoons steak dust or your favorite steak seasoning
3 tablespoons A1 steak sauce

For the Marinade

Put all ingredients into a blender and puree. Pour over meat in a glass dish or gallon zipper bag and place in the refrigerator 2-24 hours. Can be marinated up to three days for tough cuts of meat. This made enough marinade for 8 cube steaks, so I put four in the freezer in marinade.

For the Roll Ups

Marinate steaks in the refrigerator for a minimum of 2 hours, up to 24. Mine marinated for 24.

Preheat your grill on high with the lid closed. Remove the steaks from the refrigerator and take them out of the marinade. Place them on paper towels to drain.

Warm the softened cream cheese in the microwave for a few seconds. You want the cream cheese to be very soft, similar to a runny cake frosting. Spread thin layer of cream cheese over one side of steak.

Beginning with short end roll up the steak.

Spirally wrap a piece of bacon around steak and secure with one or two toothpicks. I didn't have enough toothpicks so I used two long skewers. I definitely recommend the toothpicks so you can turn the steaks individually.

Turn the burners on your grill down to medium and grill roll ups on one side for several minutes to sear the meat. Turn and sear the other side. Turn the heat down to low and continue to grill with the lid closed and turn every five minutes until done. Mine took about 25 minutes total.

-Kristina

Crockpot Smokey Honey Barbecued Chicken

This recipe is so simple to make and my family LOVED it. We had Sandwiches one night and then on baked potatoes the next.



Crockpot Smokey Honey Barbecued Chicken for Sandwiches
(found at sixsistersstuff.blogspot.com)

Ingredients-
2 cups of bottled barbecue sauce
3 tablespoons of honey
3 large boneless, skinless chicken breast
1/2 teaspoon of cumin

In a 2 - 3 quart crock pot place 1/2 cup of the bottled barbecue sauce. Pour in 1 tablespoon of honey on top of that. Now add the chicken breasts. Pour the remaining barbecue sauce and then the honey on top of the chicken breast. Cover and cook on low for 3 - 3 1/2 hours. Remove lid and using two forks shred the chicken breasts. Add the cumin (that's where the smokey flavor comes from). Stir to incorporate. Turn to high (leaving the lid off) and cook for additional 30 - 45 minutes. This will help it thicken. Serve on buns or baked potatoes.

-Kristina

First Fall project for 2011

Fall is in the air and I have a list a mile long of fall projects I want to make, so I have been crafting my booty off..... and that makes me SMILE !!!!

My husaband and I love going to a flea market not far from our home, you can find all kinds of good stuff for really CHEAP prices. I bought everything to make this wreath at the flea market. The wreath cost me 3.00 the flowers cost me 4.00 and the sign in the middle of the wreath cost me 2.00 for a whopping total of 9.00 WHAT A DEAL .....



Before I got a hold of it !!!!!!



and the after..... so what do you think?? I love the way it turned out. My porch will be fully decorated soon and I will share those pictures with you all soon. Hope you enjoyed




-Happy Fall Ya'll- Kristina -

I'm sharing this project over at these awesome blogs, check them out..

Loaded Baked Potato Soup

Loaded Baked Potato Soup
(Found at picky-plate.com)


12 oz Applewood smoked bacon
4 stalks celery finely diced
2 large carrots, peeled, finely diced
1 large onion, finely chopped
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup thinly sliced ham or Canadian bacon
32 oz chicken broth
6 oz half and half
10 med/lg. potatoes, baked, peeled and mashed
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
½ Cup milk
4 oz sour cream
1 ½ Cups shredded cheddar cheese
Garnish
½ Cup sour cream
1 Cup shredded cheddar cheese
1 Cup thinly sliced green onion (green part)


1. Heat large dutch oven over medium heat. Cut bacon into pieces and cook until browned and crisp. Transfer bacon to a paper towel lined plate. Discard bacon grease, reserving 2 Tablespoons to sauté veggis. Saute celery, carrots, and onion in bacon grease for 10 minutes, stirring often until softened. Stir in garlic and ham; cook for 3 more minutes. Stir in chicken broth and half and half.

2. Place mashed potatoes in a stand or electric mixer. Mix on medium speed adding salt, pepper and milk. Stir mashed potatoes into soup until combined. Heat for 10 minutes.

3. Stir in sour cream and cheese until smooth. Season with additional salt and pepper to taste. Simmer on low until ready to serve. Top with sour cream, bacon, cheese and green onion.

P.F. Chan's Mongolian Beef

My family LOVES P.F. Chang's so I can't wait to see if they like this recipe or not.

P.F. Chang’s Mongolian Beef
serves 4, prep 45 min, cook 10 min, adapted from KSN TV



2 lbs flank or skirt steak

1/4 cup corn starch

2 tsp vegetable or peanut oil

1 tsp fresh ginger, minced

1 tbsp garlic, minced

1/2 cup low sodium soy sauce

1/2 cup water
1/2-3/4 cup dark brown sugar
1 cup vegetable or peanut oil
8 oz button mushrooms, quartered if large
1 bunch green onions, green part only, cut in half




Trim all fat and silver skin from meat. Lay steaks out horizontally on the cutting board. The grain in running vertically. Make several vertical cuts to slice the slab into manageable sized pieces. Then cut the meat opposite the grain (horizontal) into two bite-sized pieces. Cut with your blade at a 45° angles to get wide diagonal slices.

Dust steak pieces lightly in cornstarch and set aside while preparing the sauce.
In a small sauce pan heat oil over medium high heat. Add ginger and garlic.Add soy sauce and water to the ginger and garlic before it browns. Add brown sugar and whisk until dissolved. Bring sauce to a boil and simmer about 10 minutes or until slightly reduced and thickened. Remove from the heat and reserve.

In a large skillet or wok heat 1 cup oil over medium high heat.Working in batches, add the steak a few at a time to the hot oil. Cook about 1 minute without touching the
meat then flip each piece and cook 1 minute more. Remove meat while still rare inside, and continue with next batch. Once all meat is browned, pour off oil and wipe out skillet.

Heat skillet over high heat and add mushrooms.Cook without stirring a couple of minutes or until mushrooms are slightly softened and browned. Reserve.

Add steak to the hot pan and cook about 1 minute. Add sauce to the pan and simmer and toss meat and sauce about 1 minute. Add mushrooms and green onions. Toss with steak and sauce and heat 1 minute.
Use tongs to remove meat and veggies to a serving dish, leaving excess sauce in the pan. Serve over rice.

Be sure to use a very light dusting of cornstarch when you bread the steak pieces. If there is too much cornstarch you will get a Swiss steak texture instead of a good sear.

This looks like a lot of steps, and it is, but it is really not hard and not even that lengthy of a process. You basically cut and bread the meat, make the sauce, fry the meat, cook the mushrooms, then toss it all in the sauce and serve.

I'm sharing this yummy recipe over at a few of my favorite blogs!!

October 2011 Meal Planner

Sooooo I've worked all morning putting together this cute calendar for this months meal plan and wouldn't you know I can't get it to post right. O well maybe next month. Hope you enjoy this months meals!!
October 2011
1st-P.F. Chang’s Mongolian Beef          
2nd-Loaded Baked Potato Soup  

3rd-Taco Salad                                 
4th-Crockpot Smokey Honey Barbecued Chicken sandwiches

5th -Creamy Chicken Enchiladas 

6th-Leftovers

7th-Calzone Rings

8th-Chicken Salad sandwiches

9th-Rolled Up Chicken Dinner

10th-Cowboy Stew

11th-Stuffed Bell Peppers
12th-Double Dave’s (Eating out)

13th-Ham and Cheese Sliders

14th-Leftovers

15th-Grilled Hamburgers with Baked beans

16th-Homemade Chicken and Dumplings

17th-Crockpot Shredded beef tacos
18th-Navajo Tacos

19th-Crockpot Meal Green Chili Burros

20th-Breakfast for Dinner

21st-Crockpot Black bean soup

22nd-Fajita’s

23rd- Restaurant Style Carne Asada Soft Tacos with Guacamole and Corn

24th-Grilled chicken and bacon spinach salad

25th-Crockpot Orange Chicken

26th-Leftovers

27th-Sub sandwiches

28th-Grilled Cubed steak rollups

29th-Chili Beans with Corn bread and  Mac-n-cheese

30th-Grilled Pizza

31st-Crock-pot Ravioli Casserole

I will be adding all of the recipes soon

-Kristina-

FALL IS HERE

Today is officially the first day of FALL....... I LOVE this time of year, however my family is usually summer people. We love the long days, barbequing outside with Friends and Family, camping, fishing and hanging out at the lake. But I must say, I have NEVER been so ready to see some cooler weather. With tempeatures here in Texas reaching heighs of 112 F, the drought and the wildfires close to my home.

Here is a picture from my boys school, you can see the massive wildfires just miles from our home. Pretty darn scary!!

The next day on our way home from a friends house we saw this huge plane flying really low. My husband and I thought it was fixing to crash but come to find out it was helping to put out another wildfire that had started in the back of a neighboorhood right down the road from us.

This was the scariest thing I've ever seen we had wildfires buring on both sides of us just a few miles away. We are SO SO blessed that they were able put the fires out before making its way to our home. Thanks to all of the Firefighters that put their lives on the line to help save others. My heart goes out to the families that lost their homes due to the wildfires in the Texas Hill Country and Magnolia area. Here are a few pictures I found on the internet of those wildfires.

God Bless

-Kristina