Thursday, October 13, 2011

Philly Cheese Steak Subs recipe - Oh so good!

Philly Steak and Cheese Subs
For this recipe I will use the following ingredients:

  • 4 teaspoon vegetable (or olive) oil mixed with 2 teas. of margarine or butter
  • 1 lb boneless rib eye steak thinly-sliced (or you can use thinly-sliced chicken instead of beef)
  • 1 large green bell pepper, sliced
  • 1 large sweet onion, sliced
  • 8 ounces white mushrooms, sliced thinly
  • 8 slices provolone cheese (my children prefer cheddar cheese)
  • 8 sub buns
  • Mayonnaise
  • Butter (softened)
  • Salt and black pepper to season

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a skillet on top of the stove, on medium-high heat, heat 2 teas. vegetable oil to hot and add 2 teas. margarine. Add onions to heated skillet and caramelize onions (brown onions), this will take approximately 15 minutes. Add green pepper and mushrooms when the onions are half-way done (around 5 minutes into the onions cooking time). Let this mixture simmer on low heat.

Meanwhile, start another frying pan of 2 teas. vegetable oil. Heat oil to medium-high heat. Add thinly-sliced pieces of rib eye steak to hot oil and cook for about 15 minutes until browned (no longer pink, I like mine well done). While cooking the other ingredients, open your sub buns up and lay them onto a cookie sheet face up and toast them in the oven for about 5 minutes. Take them out of the oven and spread your sub buns on one side with butter and on the other side with mayonnaise. Once the steak and onion mixture are done, spoon equal amounts into each sub bun and top with provolone (or cheddar) cheese. Add salt and pepper to top and bake on 350 degrees for 5-10 minutes, or until cheese is melted. Remove from oven, let stand for 3-5 minutes and serve warm.
Enjoy!

Sunday, October 2, 2011

"Guide" - He still hears me...

For those of you who don't believe you can have a personal relationship with God, I truly wish you would listen harder. I have been praying for some time for God to GUIDE me and strengthen me and draw me closer to Him. He is always there, I know that much and trust in that. But it's such an honor to FEEL Him and sometimes it's just with one word and in a moment of time when you least expect it. How real it is, how wonderful it feels to have that reassurance that He is near, He is listening, He is right beside you.

Luke 1:79 is my source for guidance......

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Coveting - throw it away!

Today I listened to a lady who explained that she allowed her children to look through magazines and toy catalogs in order to see the newest toys and products out on the market. She saw how excited her children were getting in just looking thru the catalogs and how they began to covet those items they didn't have. She learned by watching them that this was not good for them and that she did not want them to start believing that what they had in life was not good enough for them.

So she began to throw those mail catalogs and magazines away. She started limiting Christmas gifts to 3 only. One from each set of grandparents and one from her and her husband. She explained that this has helped them out financially as well as in their walk with God.

I hope that I can recognize these things in my own life and "throw it away!" So when I start to see those Sunday paper inserts for all the sale items, I will pray and ask God to only allow me to search for things that will benefit my family and myself, that I won't get more than I need and I will keep within our spending limits.

I appreciate the story I heard today, but I don't recall who the speaker was. I did however, find a link to some money saving tips that seem rather helpful in my search for the speaker on Google.

http://firsttrinity.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Money-Saving-Tips.pdf

It's been a while...

It's been a long while since I've posted on my blog. I'll try to keep it updated more frequently. It seems just as I start to grow close in walking with God, life gets in the way. I really need to learn to just shut everything else out and learn to say no in order to put God first each day of my life. People won't like me for doing so. But it needs to be done.