Pepper Steak and Beefy Rice

This is a nice meal when you're running around all day or when you don't have energy to stand at the stove to cook the evening meal because you can set the meat to cook on low all day in the slow cooker. Quick fry the veggies when you get home and toss it all together while the rice is cooking.

Ingredients:
      2 lbs. lean beef steak, cut into 1/4 strips or bite size chunks. It's not rocket science. Choose the size you like best.
      1 large onion, sliced
      2 large green peppers. Or red, or yellow or mix them up!
      2 tsps. dry beef boullion
      2 can's diced tomatoes
      1/2 tsp. minced garlic
      2 T. corn starch (mix with water to make a slurry)
    
Sear the beef in a small amount of oil, turning often to even brown all sides. Put the meat in a slow cooker on low and add 1 cup of water, the tomatoes, garlic and the boullion. Mix it around a bit to make sure all the meat gets a chance to swim in the liquid. Put the cover on, set it to low and go about your day.

About 30 minutes before you want to eat, make your rice.

Put 2 cups of white rice in an 8 quart pot. Add 1 tsp. beef boullion and 4 cups of cold water. I like to add 1/4 dry vegetable soup mix. Bring to a boil, stirring now and again. Once the water comes to a full boil, turn the heat down as low as you can and put the lid on the pot. Do NOT peek until 20 minutes later. Then turn off the heat and stir with a fork to fluff the rice.

While that rice is cooking, get to work on your peppers. Wash, seed and core them and then slice them into strips or into bite size pieces. Do the same with your onion. Fry in a little bit of butter until the onions are almost clear and the peppers still have their color.

Now that you have that all ready, mix the cornstarch and water to make a slurry. Pour it into the meat to thicken the gravy a bit. You don't want it to be too thick. More like the consistancy of honey. If it's too thick, add some more water. Not thick enough? Add a bit more slurry.

Once your gravy is right, dump in the peppers and onions and toss the meat, gravy and veggies together until everything's nicely coated.

Serve over rice.