Sloppy Joe from The Daily Meal. Photo credit iStock/LauriPatterson
Have you ever clicked on the Daily Meal link at the very bottom of our page? You should! In addition to supporting blogs like this one (members of the Culinary Content Network) they publish content, mostly aggregating existing recipes, that can point you in a creative direction if you’re looking for something new. Or old/forgotten, in the case of Vintage Recipes that No One Makes Anymore – But Should, a piece that ran earlier this week.
It’s about time we brought back oldies but goodies like Beef Stroganoff, Chicken Kiev and Salisbury Steak. Use the provided recipes as a jumping-off point for your own ideas or a web search rather than following them literally. The recipe for sweet and sour meatballs, for example, is from a juice company and the first ingredient is a bottle of their white grape juice. But this for Sloppy Joes looks pretty good. Makes 4 servings.
Ingredients:
1 t olive oil
1 lb ground beef
Kosher salt and pepper, to taste
1 T garlic powder
1 onion, peeled and chopped
1 green bell pepper, cored and chopped
1 15-oz can tomato sauce
1/4 c ketchup
1 T Worcestershire sauce
4 Kaiser rolls or large hamburger buns, toasted
Method: sauté ground beef in olive oil over medium heat until browned, 8 minutes or so. Add onion and green pepper and cook until tender, stirring frequently. Pour off excess oil and add garlic powder, tomato sauce, ketchup and Worcestershire. Let the flavors blend over low heat for 5 minutes (it will thicken somewhat) then salt and pepper to taste. Serve hot, over toasted buns.
P.S. Looking for more nostalgia recipes? Enter the phrase “Phi Beta Phi” in our sidebar search box to find our executions of dishes from my mother’s 1936 cookbook like Harvard Beets, Porcupines and of course Turkey Wiggle!
