Sloppy Joes - Army style

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Oh Boy! One of my favorites.

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Yeah, this forum doesn't do the, 'auto resize' thing that IA does. Looks as though your pics can only be as wide as the displayable text area. I don't know if there's a way to change that or not.

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You could reduce the size of your photo using MSPaint. I do it all the time.

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OK Keith, I had the wife try the sloppy joe today while we watched the 500. It was OK but we both agreed it was missing a little something. Turns out it was the salt. Why was the salt scribbled out in the original and left out completely in your copy? That much ground beef definitely needs a little salt.

And a personal thing I guess but we also felt it needed just a touch of sweetening so we added what would have been about 1 tsp of table sugar. That's just a personal taste thing but the way we preferred it.

Your recipe was really good and easy to put together. She had it done and on the table with the tater tots in about an hour+ including setting the table. I've found over the years there are a lot of good recipes for sloppy joe but the really good ones are the old ones passed down. This was one of those. Thanks.

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@ Keith. A man's culinary accomplishments are measured by how many times the result is repeated. He will love to hear that news! [emoji106]

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Might have to try this recipe :rag:

One tip on sweet without using sugar; try worchester sauce :ahha:
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OK. 98VS100.. I just know you have a great recipe for SOS... Dave

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98VS1400 wrote:Here it is, the handwritten recipe from one of my old sergeants at the sheriff's office who used to cook in the Army. I'm making it tonight just because you got me thinking about it!

Ingredients:

2 pounds ground chuck
2 medium onions
1 medium green peppers
1 cup ketchup (or catsup...)
1 can of tomato soup
1/2 teaspoon black pepper (or more to taste)
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper (or a lot more to taste)
1 cup of water
4 tablespoons butter (that is 1/2 stick)

Sautee diced onions and green peppers in butter until translucent, or for about 10 minutes. Add ground chuck until it falls apart and is brown. Slightly (slowly) add in the ketchup, tomato soup, water and spices. Cook until thickens, usually about 30-45 minutes over medium-low to medium heat. Enjoy!
I gotta try this. The cayenne pepper really fits this, too. Just because it's common ingredients and looks easy don't mean it won't be great. I got hungry reading it.

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This is sounding like it would be good for Labor Day. I always have my son and his family over on holidays and grill hamburgers and hot dogs. I think I'll still grill hot dogs for the grand babies, but make a big pot of this sloppy joe recipe and leave it in a crock pot buffet style! It's sounding so good, I already want to start icing down the beer!
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Got 7 pounds of 90% lean beef that needs to be cooked. I think I'm going to try this is the crock pot on low overnight and see how it turns out. We are expecting Hurricane Harvey to make landfall sometime tonight. I'm 130 miles away in San Antonio, but we are still expecting heavy flooding and high winds. I'm hoping that if we don't lose power, I'll be having sloppy joes all day long and make a day of netflix while we ride out the storm. At least I have a gas stove so I can always finish cooking it if power fails.

I'm already drooling over it.
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Made this and the family loved it. Definitely a keeper.
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Add some honey to the mixture (trail and error to individual tastes ) and it will come out sweeter and more juicy [emoji106]
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