Beef Stroganoff

This is how my mom always made it, and it's another easy weeknight meal made from stuff I pretty much always have laying around. For the longest time I had no idea that this wasn't how EVERYBODY made it lol!

• 1 lb sliced steak (I love skirt/asada steak for this)
• 3 cloves crushed garlic
• 1 tb granulated onion/onion powder
• 2 tsp black pepper
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup brown gravy mix (I buy this stuff by the pound at winco!)
• 2 cups water
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 dash worchestershire sauce

Brown the steak with onion, garlic, salt, and pepper.
Slowly combine the brown gravy mix and half of the water.
Add the remaining water to the skillet, and slowly stir in the gravy mixture.
Simmer over medium heat until thickened.
Stir in the sour cream and worchestershire sauce.
Serve over egg noodles.

This was probably one of my top 10 favourite dinners when I was a kid!

Basic Sloppy Joes

Just an easy toss-together meal! It took me a few tries to get a sloppy joe that I REALLY liked.

• 1 lb ground beef
• 3 tb chili powder
• 5 cloves crushed garlic
• salt and pepper
• 1 cup tomato sauce

Cook the ground beef with the garlic, salt, and pepper, then drain any excess grease.
Add everything else and simmer for about 10 minutes.

I like to serve this over garlic toast with cajun potato wedges. Just cut potato wedges and toss with a little oil and seasoning, and bake at 400 degrees until tender. The thinner you slice them, the quicker they will cook ;)

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bars

Just a little FYI: I've not been posting so much because the batteries in the camera are almost dead, so it doesn't focus well at the moment.

Anyway, these are DELICIOUS!

These traveled GREAT on our last run in the big rig, not to mention they tasted great (for some reason it's been a few years since I made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies)

oatmeal chocolate chip bars

1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
1 cup butter
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 tbs milk
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 cups oatmeal
a bunch of chocolate chips!
*I also added a rounded tablespoon of flax meal with the flour

Set the oven to 350
Grease a brownie pan
Beat the butter and sugars until light and creamy.
Add the eggs, vanilla, and milk, combining well.
Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and flax meal.
Add to the butter/sugar mixture.
Add oatmeal and chocolate chips.
Press the dough into a pan and bake until the center is set.