Flank Steak Sammies

Oh so easy, Oh so good!

Take one flank steak and marinate it in teriyaki for 2-8 hours.  Grill (or broil) about 5 min on each side.  Remove from grill and let set while you take hot dog buns, butter them and season with garlic powder and grill until toasted.  Cut steak THIN against the grain and serve on bun as sammie.  No need for anything else on the sandwich, I swear...plenty of flavor and juices!  YUM. I tend to serve this with hashbrown casserole. 

*Makes great leftovers too!

Sloppy Joes

This is a homemade sloppy joe recipe from when I was little. My husband grew up on Manwich and prefers this much better. Just as easy as the canned version! The brand of Ketchup is the key ingredient. Can be tricky to found, but I find it at Walts.

1 lb of ground beef ( I substitute all gr. beef for gr. turkey)

1/2 bottle of Brooks Thick and Tangy Ketchup

2 Tbs mustard

2 Tbs sugar

2 1/2 Tbs white vinegar

minced onion, salt, and pepper to taste

Brown and drain meat. Add all ingredients and simmer 10 minutes.

Italian Beef in a Bucket

3 1/2 - 4 lb Beef Roast, sirloin tip, or rump

1 (12-16 oz ) jar of Italian giardinera, mild or hot

1 (12-16 oz ) jar pepperoncini

1 envelope, Good Seasons zesty Italian salad dressing mix

1 (10 3/4 oz) beef broth

Place the roast in a 3 1/2 quart crock pot and mix all other ingredients together, draining oil from giardinera. (When adding giardinera and pepporcini, use half of each jar for a mild version, or all for the spicy one.) Add all ingredients to the crock pot. Cover and cook on low setting for 18 hours.

To serve, take two forks and shred the roast (after 18 hrs the meat will shred very easy) and put on Italian bread.

** I have found that using a lot of pepporcini's makes it salty, so I use just a 1/4 of the jar.**

Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches

Okay, so this recipe I am sharing even though Peter and I were disappointed. We're hoping to get suggestions from others as to how to improve. We're not sure if the chicken was too dry or the bread was too overwhelming, or if we were just missing something.

This is what we did:

4 chicken breasts
1 jar of your favorite hot wing sauce (we used Franks)

Cook in crockpot for 4 hours on high. Take off lid and shred chicken. Continue to cook for another 2 hours on low. The chicken will soak up the very watery crockpot.

We put the chicken on Turino rolls (used for Italian Beef) and put some blue cheese dressing on the bread, and had extra in a bowl to dip the sammie in. You can also use ranch if you are not a fan of blue cheese. We had our sandwiches with fries.

So--any suggestions on how to improve this meal? I'm really wanting to like it, and love buffalo chicken...there was just something missing here.