Ma's Sloppy Joe's

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This week's recipe is a family favorite. Actually we make this at least twice a month and as always all that is left after we devour this recipe is the dirty dishes in the sink, ha! Now, I plead get into your inner 6 year old and go all nostalgic with these sloppy joe's. Who doesn't love a good sloppy joe? Aw, I know you do. Even if that head is shaking in the no motion. It's an American staple and I promise if you have ever had a Manwich moment and it scarred you for life trust me in our recipe there is no mention of a man or a wich. Well, maybe a guy since I'm married to one and he does get to eat, haha. Nope, this recipe is all my ma's and it's homemade. No cans needed. So toss out your Manwich coupons or use them for some decoupage. Now you see that big pot looking thing in your kitchen that collects dust and you use as storage? Aw, come on you know I'm talking about the DUN...DUN...DUN SLOW COOKER! Ah, the slow cooker now if you are a faithful reader (as we hope you are) then you know we are some slow cooker loving chicks. So grab yours and away we go.....

Here's all you need:

Ma's Sloppy Joe's

2lbs ground turkey
1 can of Campbell's tomato soup (low sodium is preferred)
1 1/2 cups of frozen pepper/onion blend
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons of ketchup
1 tablespoon of taco seasoning

You'll need hamburger buns. A pack usually does it for us and usually they come 8 in a pack.

*Brown turkey in skill over medium heat. While that's cooking away place pepper/onion frozen blend into a microwave safe bowl. Place bowl in microwave on high for 40 seconds. When pepper/onion blend is done take kitchen scissors or knife and chop to your liking. Add pepper/onion blend to slow cooker then add tomato soup, Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, turkey (after it's completely brown), & stir until mixed well. Add your taco seasoning and stir well to combine. Turn your slow cooker on low for 4 to 5 hours and let the sloppy joe mix come together.




*After the hours mentioned grab yourself some buns and evenly distribute the mixture to complete your sloppy joe. Enjoy!





Tid Bits:

*Need something to go with this awesome dish? Try some garlic fries or chips.

*Looking for something to tang it up a bit? Oh, who doesn't love some tang? haha. Add some mustard before eating. My hubby showed me this trick and it gives it a nice extra little something.

*If you don't have a slow cooker mix all your ingredients in a pot then place on stove on low for an hour and a half. Make sure to stir often.

*Missing that carnivore side of yourself? Don't turn into the Hulk, just use 1lb hamburger and 1lb turkey. Hell, you can use 2lbs hamburger if you'd like. It's yours to jazz up and make it tasty for your family.

*I do recommend the low sodium soup because in the slow cooker regular tomato soup become overpowering with the salt. Regular soup = extremely salty sloppy joe mix. Not good guys. *shakes head no.*



Ma's Spot: The idea for this recipe came from the Campbell soup website but over the years I have taken the basic idea and made it my own. I've never let this recipe out and I planned on keeping it a secret because over the years (especially my daughter) would keep saying "Ma, I tried making it at my house and it just didn't taste the same. What am I doing wrong?" so finally I decided to let my secret recipe out due to the fact my son in law was suffering without the original and my daughter felt bad for as she says "messing it up". When I revealed my secret ingredients you should've seen the look on her face. So here it is, for you all our faithful readers to enjoy. I encourage you to play with the recipe but I'd also say keep the basic in tact to get the whole sloppy joe flavor and feel.



Alrighty guys this week's blog entry is done. I am confident that I have showed the way on the path to sloppy joe heaven. So go forth and make sloppy joe's! As always we'll meet you here next Tuesday for more dishes. What's in store for next week? It's a recipe my hubby perfected...should be interesting, haha.



Spoons & Spatula's
~Dinah & Ma