Recipe Test, Sloppy Joes

I will follow the example of Lara Kasparian and try an unfamiliar sounding recipe another day. Tonight, I would do something that I was pretty sure would turn out well. We had some ground beef in the refrigerator that needed to be cooked and I thought some sloppy joes would taste good. It seemed like a great opportunity to try out one of the 9th Ward recipes. Spoiler alert - it was easy and delicious.

As I drove home, I mentally went through the list of ingredients that would be in a sloppy joe recipe and was pretty sure that I had it all. I got home and looked at the recipe and wondered, "Do I have the tomato sauce? If I don't, do I make it without?  I can't give an honest review if I don't follow the recipe?" I dug through the cabinet and was pleased to find some tomato sauce. Next problem, I had a pound and a quarter of hamburger and the recipe called for 2. I decided to use all of my ground beef and follow the rest of the ingredients as written. The sloppy joes would just be a little bit more juicy. 

I dumped the ground beef in the pan, diced a large onion and put it all in, and then sprinkled the salt over the top. I turned on the stove and cooked the meat/onions until they looked done. I added all of the other ingredients, stirred it up, and cooked it for a few minutes. I needed to run to a meeting and so I decided to eat the sloppy joes before it (they?) had simmered for an hour. Delicious.

I came home an hour later and there was still some on the stove. I think it might have tasted even better having simmered for the called for hour.

I found this to be a delicious and very easy recipe to make. I worried about using a large whole onion when I only had 5/8 of the called for meat, but it still tasted really good. I'm not sure just what the vinegar does, but I suspect it was an important ingredient. The tastes all came together beautifully.

Thank you, Sister Van Orman, for sharing your delicious recipe. I will enjoy it again for lunch tomorrow.