Hannah's Broccoli Beef

Any Chinese fans in our family? Chinese is probably my favorite type of food... besides Italian. and Mexican. and okay, I just love all food :)

I found this recipe online, and we tried it out last night. WAY better than takeout! The sauce is especially great.

Ingredients

• 1.5lb flank steak, thinly sliced and chopped into about 2 inch pieces
• 1 cup beef broth
• 2/3 cup soy sauce
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1tbsp sesame oil
• 1tbsp minced garlic
• 4 cups broccoli florets
• 2tbsp corn starch + 4tbsp cold water

Instructions

Add beef broth, soy sauce, brown sugar, sesame oil, and garlic to a crockpot. Mix together well and then add the little slices of steak. Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours, or on high for 2-3.

30 minutes before serving, uncover the crockpot. In a small bowl, whisk the corn starch and water together until dissolved. Mix into crockpot, cover, and cook for another 20-25 minutes.

Just before serving, place broccoli in a large tupperware with 1/2 inch of water. Place the lid on the tupperware in an offset manner so that the container can vent. Cook in the microwave on high for 3 minutes, then drain, stir into crockpot, and serve with rice.

Enjoy! Wednesdays are my least-favorite, so I hope that this yummy meal can get you all through the week ;)

Katie's Salsa Chicken

This is a play off of "Hawaiian Haystacks", Enjoy!!

6 frozen chicken tenders
1 can cream of chicken
1 can (more or less) of salsa (use same can from cream of chicken)
A dollop of sour cream
1/2 cup (or so) of grated cheese - mix in half way through process

Place in crock pot on low for 6-8 hrs or high 4-6 hrs.  Once it's done, mix together and shred the chicken with a fork and knife.  Refrigerate leftovers.

Serve over rice with the following toppings (or any other toppings you would normally use in Hawaiian Haystacks, or you can even eat this without toppings and it will still be yummy!):

• Grated cheese
• Chowmein noodles (or instead, mashed tortilla chips for added texture)
• Chopped tomatoes
• Chopped bell peppers
• Sour Cream
• Chopped celery 

I have a rice cooker and about 20 minutes before dinner time, I get the rice going.  

This recipe is good to last Chris and I another 2 meals (3 meals total).  You can adjust the amounts of each ingredient based on how much chicken you want in the sauce or how cheesy/salsa-y/creamy you want it to be (I am always experimenting, so mine is always changing and it is always amazing!).

On the nights we have this as leftovers, I make a new batch of rice that day and add on toppings!  

***You can also use the crock pot 'mix' from this recipe as a yummy chip dip!***

Hannah's Crockpot BBQ Chicken

Ingredients:

• 2 frozen chicken breasts
• 1 bottle BBQ sauce (I like use honey BBQ, but whatever's your favorite)
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

Instructions:

Put chicken in the crockpot for 6-8hrs on low, or 4-6 on high. Combine the rest of the ingredients in small bowl to make a BBQ sauce. After chicken has cooked for a couple hours, drain juices from crockpot, add sauce, and cook for the remaining time. Cube chicken and serve over rice, or shred for sandwiches... the possibilities are endless ;)