Thursday, June 14, 2012

Sloppy Joes

Source: a mix of places, including Better Homes and Gardens, The Essential Mormon Cookbook, and my grandma Elwood

Ingredients: (warning - there was not a lot of measuring that went into these babies, I just kind of threw stuff in - which is a new feat for me and it was kind of fun!)
1 lb ground beef
1 medium onion, chopped
1/2 green bell pepper, chopped
3 (smallish size) cloves garlic, minced
1 10 3/4 ounce can tomato soup (or 1 8 oz can tomato sauce)
~1/4 - 1/2 cup ketchup (no measuring, just squirting)
~1 - 2 teaspoons mustard (again with the squirting)
1/4 teaspoon curry powder
~1 teaspoon chili powder (shake shake shake)
~1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce (straight from the bottle into the pan)
6-7 hamburger (or hotdog, if you run out of hamburger) buns

Directions:
Brown ground beef, onion, pepper and garlic in a medium saucepan.  Drain off fat.  Add the rest of the ingredients and simmer until your guests arrive and you're ready to eat.  ;)

Makes about 6 sandwiches (or 7, if you stretch the last two a little thinner and make one on a hotdog bun).

Notes:
I made these sloppy joes to eat the first night Heather and the boys were here visiting us.  I didn't have tomato juice (which my grandma's recipe called for) and I only had one can of tomato sauce (which BHG called for, but I was saving it for pizza later in the week) and I didn't really feel like driving the 7 miles into the grocery store just to buy some, so I kept looking.  And lo and behold, I found the tomato soup suggestion from those lovely Mormons.  Worked like a charm.  :)  Definitely not a fancy meal, but it hits the spot, and can definitely be scaled up to feed a crowd.

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