I couldn’t believe it when I opened my email this afternoon. I had a pleasant surprise from one of my good food blogger friends. She gave me the Passionate Blogger award. How sweet is that?! Go visit Heidi at Tried-and-True Cooking with Heidi and see what she has cooking. It is a great site! Thank you Heidi!

Ok now there are rules to this award, and here they are:

The Rules:
1. Put the logo in your blog
2. Write five things you are passionate about apart from blogging
3. Tag 5 people on your lists and let them know you tagged them.

5 things that I’m passionate about are:
- 1. My family - I love to feed them nutritious meals homecooked most of the time by me (that way I know what is in it and what it is all about) and I take care of them and raise my children the best I can. I have the best husband in the world in that he is very supportive, sweet, and he does housework (that is the bonus)
- 2. Cooking and baking is just a hobby of mine and I love it (which is why Cre8tive Kitchen… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)

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Asian food is always a big hit in my house. I had some beef stir fry meat lurking in the freezer from my last grocery shopping trip and when I decided what I wanted to make with it, it took some creative juices flowing in my mind to create my version of Sesame Ginger Beef. We didn’t want the usual just beef stir fry so I concocted this recipe for the marinade, what I wanted in it based on what I already had on hand in my kitchen. Hope you enjoy it! We sure did!

Sesame Ginger Beef

Marinade:
1 cup beef broth
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 Tbsp vegetable oil
1 Tbsp toasted sesame seeds (toasting instructions below)
1 Tbsp sesame oil
2 tsp ginger
2 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
1 clove garlic, minced
1 lb beef stir fry meat

Mix together. Add meat to ziplock bag, and pour on marinade. Refrigerate 6 hours or over night.

2 cups broccoli florets
1/2 red pepper, diced
1/2 green pepper, diced
1 small onion, diced
3 stalks celery, diced fine
2 Tbsp vegetable oil

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