Let me know if you need the recipe. I'll have to get it from my wife though. HMMMM I guess pumping the wife for info could be the high light of my day.....

She has a great recipe that has been used on he side of the family for years.

Who needs vegetables?

Veggies? We do't need no stinking veggies! (Done in my best Mel Brooks Mexican voice)

I welcome any and all recipes since I enjoy cooking and trying new things. One exception: seafood is yucky... it tastes like fish and fish is yucky too.

I made a batch of Sloppy Joes for lunch and will save the leftovers for quick and easy nuke-able lunches for work and stuff. I grabbed a recipe off the net and tweaked it a bit.

1 lb burger

1 small onion

2 stalks celery

1 small carrot

1/2 medium Green pepper

Couple cloves of garlic

Salt and pepper

Chop or dice the veggies (the size of the cut is user preference)

Brown beef and veggies, drain fat (unless lean beef is used, some fat adds flavor)

Then stir in...

1/4 cup ketchup

1/4 cup BBQ sauce

8 oz tomato sauce

Favorite hot sauce to taste (if desired)

1 Tbs firmly packed brown sugar

1 tsp dry mustard

1 Tbs Worcestershire Sauce

1 Tbs Vinegar

Cover and simmer for 15-20 min stirring occasionally. If it's too "loose" uncover and simmer to desired consistency.

Serve on toasted buns. Add a slice of cheese if desired.

It turned out good and hit the spot, better than any canned stuff.

Scale recipe accordingly. Since you are making it anyway, double the batch and freeze portions for later.

I'll take into consideration that you're a beef and potatoes fed midwestern boy and forget you said that!

Fish is good! Lawbstah, Crab, clams, oystahs, scallops! It's all duh-lishuss!

You forgot to mention he used veggies..........IN A SLOPPY JOE RECIPE FOR GOD'S SAKE........LOL!

Too much work.

-Wearing a bib.

-Cracking claws.

- Tear out the meat

- Dip it in buttah.

A knife and a fork should be all you need to take care of bid'ness.

Cut out the veggies,dry mustard and vinager (onions are OK). Add the 1/4 cup of real mustard also a teaspoon of chili powder. You will be pretty close to the wifes recipe.

What exactly are we talking about now again????

I'm getting confused............ and aroused.

Do you think the waitress will like that?

Worth a try, don'tcha think?:-s

The closest I can do to choke down fish/seafood is if it's seared and blackened with a bunch of seasonings and wrapped in bacon, smothered in butter and/or hot sauce to hide the taste. It's one of my character defects I guess (shrug)

At least I'm not as bad as my mom. She's lived her whole life in WI and (gasp) doesn't like cheese !?! WTF? Now that is something seriously wrong.

As for the sloppy joes.

1) Veggies are good for you. Most of my meat based dishes start with the holy trinity (peppers, onion, celery) Can't forget garlic.. its a given... I love garlic. The shredded carrots were my addition - they were calling me from the fridge as I was gathering ingredients. Sneak in some for added nutrition and body without knowing that they are there.

2) The splash of vinegar (acid) is to balance the sweetness of the BBQ sauce and brown sugar.

3) Real mustard vs dry mustard... to me is a wash. I'm not a mustard fan. I can take it or leave it.

4) Chili powder... I'm with you on that. Whatever hot sauce/powder you choose to add a zing is fine with me. I chose a healthy squirt of Sriracha (****) sauce. I had another hot sauce in mind but I was fresh out so I went with the old stand by.

Cigars and food have at least one thing in common: everyone has their own tastes and none of them are wrong.

Yeah, just a pain to make. Have to have plenty of pots/pans and need to cook at different time intervals but if prepared properly nothing quite like it.

Greetings from a wet and cold, Maryland. Kids' playground incurred a lot more wind damage than I had expected. The ripped up tarp actually acted like a sail & ripped out the anchor joints on one side of the tower's canopy- pretty heavy crossbeam too. Two of the damaged support beams that also held the flags will eventually have to be replaced if the tarp is to be re-attached. The Rainbow playground is still perfectly useable however, just partially exposed to the elements now. Seems like I talk about wind damage every year, don't I? Sorry about that.

You wouldn't think of Maryland as being that windy but with all the hills, valleys, and position of homes there must be some sort of wind tunnel in my direction. Either that or I'm a spiritually marked man. LOL (shrugging shoulders)