Sloppy Joes

The last time Scott and I went grocery shopping, we bought a bag of green bell peppers at Sam's Club.  We got to a point where we needed to use them up, and I thought of Sloppy Joes.  When I was a kid, I truly thought that Manwich was the only way to make Sloppy Joes.  We don't often have that on hand, so I needed to figure out a yummy sauce that would do the trick.

The original recipe comes from allrecipes.com .  I needed to make a few tweaks, so here's my take below:

Sloppy Joes
Ingredients:

• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 small onion
• 1 green bell pepper
• 1 tsp. garlic powder
• 2 tsp. yellow mustard
• 1 c. ketchup
• 1 T brown sugar
• salt & pepper to taste

1. Brown beef, onion, and bell pepper in a skillet.  Drain.

2. Stir in remaining ingredients.

3. Simmer for 30 minutes.  Serve on your choice of bread or bun.  I add cheese to my Sloppy Joe sandwiches.  I also had some yummy potato salad on hand, and I had that as a side.

BBQ Sloppy Joes

Here's another recipe from my WordPress archive.  You will love how simple this is! :)

Easy Cheesy Barbecued Sloppy Joes*

Ingredients

• 1 lb. ground beef
• 1 green pepper, chopped
• 1/4 cup chopped onions
• 1 cup barbecue sauce
• hamburger buns
• cheese singles (preferrably KRAFT, because, really, is there any cheese single that's better??)

1. Brown meat in a large skillet and drain. Add peppers and onions. Cook and stir until crisp and tender.
2. Stir in BBQ sauce and cook until heated through, stirring occasionally.
3. Fill buns with meat mixture and cheese singles.

*This recipe hails from the awesome FREE cook book I've used in numerous posts. It was distributed on day at Sam's Club and sponsored by KRAFT.

Seriously, I loved this take on the sloppy joe.  Scott thought that I could've used less BBQ sauce because he felt it was too sweet, but it was RIGHT up my alley.  UPDATE: The BBQ sauce I used for this was Kraft.  It IS a sweeter sauce.  I have made this recipe other times, and I used Sweet Baby Rays Barbeque Sauce.  The sloppy joes weren't nearly as sweet with that sauce.