Best Ever Sloppy Joes

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                                   By Jim Hingst

Sloppy Joes are sneaky way to get kids to eat all types of good food that they would not normally eat. This dish combines ground beef, pork sausage, onions, celery, carrots, peppers in a tomato sauce. In a way, Sloppy Joes are like a really messy hamburger.

 

My mother regularly cooked this recipe, which she inherited from her friend, Rose, who was tragically killed in a car accident with her family.

 

This recipe was changed slightly from the original one to make it spicier. You can easily change the ingredients to suit your taste. If you are making this dish for children, you make want to eliminate the jalapeno peppers, the chili powder and the Worcestershire sauce.

 

Ingredients

 

2 lbs. ground chuck, browned

2 cups onion, chopped

4 ribs celery, diced (optional)

6 cloves of garlic, minced

2 cups green pepper, chopped

½ tspn. ground cloves

2 tbspn. sugar

4 tbspn. prepared mustard

2 tbspn. vinegar

2 tspn. salt

2 cups ketchup

3 tablespoons chili powder (optional)

4-ounce can diced green chilies (optional)

A couple of dashes Worcestershire sauce (optional)

Mix well together and simmer 2 hours.

Directions

 

Sauté onion until it becomes translucent and caramelized.

 

Add garlic to the onions and continue to sauté until you can smell the garlic.

 

Brown ground beef and sausage to caramelize the meat; brown in batches. Drain the grease.

 

Sauté green peppers and celery.

 

Transfer sautéed vegetables and meat to a slow cooker.

 

Mix in the other ingredients.

 

Cook on low for at least 5 hours.

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Meatloaf Burgers

Beer Brats

 

Bon Appetite!

About Jim Hingst: Sign business authority on vehicle wraps, vinyl graphics, screen printing, marketing, sales, gold leaf, woodcarving and painting. 

After fourteen years as Business Development Manager at RTape, Jim Hingst retired. He was involved in many facets of the company’s business, including marketing, sales, product development and technical service.

Hingst began his career 42 years ago in the graphic arts field creating and producing advertising and promotional materials for a large test equipment manufacturer.  Working for offset printers, large format screen printers, vinyl film manufacturers, and application tape companies, his experience included estimating, production planning, purchasing and production art, as well as sales and marketing. In his capacity as a salesman, Hingst was recognized with numerous sales achievement awards.

Drawing on his experience in production and as graphics installation subcontractor, Hingst provided the industry with practical advice, publishing more than 190 articles for  publications, such as  Signs Canada, SignCraft,  Signs of the Times, Screen Printing, Sign and Digital Graphics and  Sign Builder Illustrated. He also posted more than 500 stories on his blog (hingstssignpost.blogspot.com). In 2007 Hingst’s book, Vinyl Sign Techniques, was published.  Vinyl Sign Techniques is available at sign supply distributors and at Amazon. 

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