Lou Decruss wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 11:16:00 -0500, "jmcquown" >
> wrote:
>
>>> Sloppy Joes
>>>
>>> Recipe By : *Wayne Boatwright*
>>> Serving Size : 8 Preparation Time :0:00
>>> Categories : Sandwiches
>>>
>>> Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
>>> -------- ------------ --------------------------------
>>> 1 lb Ground meat
>>> 2 tb Unsalted butter or olive oil
>>> 1/2 ea Medium onion -- 1/4" dice
>>> 1/2 ea Green bell pepper -- 1/4" dice
>>> 1/2 ea Red bell pepper -- 1/4" dice
>>> 1 ea Stalk celery -- 1/4" dice
>>> 2 ts Chili powder, or to taste
>>> 1/2 ts Ground cumin
>>> 1/2 ts Ground coriander
>>> 1/2 ts Mexican oregano
>>> 1/2 c Chili sauce
>>> 1/2 c Catsup
>>> 1/2 ts Salt
>>> Few grindings black pepper
>>>
>> (snippety)
>>
>> It sounds good, but that's a hell of a lot of ingredients for good
>> ol' fashioned sloppy joes! I use tomato sauce, onion, bell pepper,
>> garlic and some black pepper. That's about it and it tastes fine
>>
>> Jill
>>
> It does sound good. It's not that many ingredients. Who said
> anything about good ol' fashioned sloppy joes? Does anything with
> more than 3 ingredients and 2 steps scare you? This is a cooking
> group. Remember???? It amazes me that you can routinely take a post
> with a nice recipe in it and turn it negative. No wonder you have an
> imaginary boyfriend your fathers age. Oh!!! I forgot I'm killfiled
> LOLOL
>
> Lou

No, a long list of ingredients doesn't scare me. But in my experience
growing up sloppy joes were intended to be a simple food used to stretch the
food dollar. I mean come on, we're talking ground beef in sauce on a
hamburger bun, fer cryin' out loud! I'm sure Wayne's recipe tastes great,
but I wouldn't go to all the trouble of adding chili powder, ground cumin,
ground coriander and Mexican oregano and chili sauce. That turns it into a
Tex-Mex sloppy joe. I'm sure it's tastes great but it's not what I think of
as sloppy joes. I don't see how that makes it a negative. I have no idea
what set you off, and I never killfiled you that I'm aware of.

As for my "imaginary boyfriend", John, shall I send you a photo of us?
Perhaps I'll get a new one for you when we're at the art show in Davenport
next weekend.

Jill