I like variety in my cooking. I like to keep things interesting by always trying new versions of recipes. It helps keep cooking fun and interesting. My husband also like variety in his meals. He gets tired of the same foods. If I serve something a lot, it needs to be a different version. This is why I have several versions of our favorite meals. I make a regular meatloaf and a Mexican meatloaf. I have three or four different pancake recipes that I use. I have three or four chili recipes that I make. We get bored with the same things over and over again.
I also like to keep trying new things, to find a better recipe. I like to compare things and see what makes their recipe different than mine. I like to see how I can make mine better.
This Sloppy Joe recipe is an example of those things. We like Sloppy Joes and I have several versions that I make. But I like to find new recipes that change things a little. I like Sloppy Joes because you can make a big batch and eat it one night and freeze the rest.
This version is a little different because it is a crock pot recipe and it has sausage in it. I like the fact that I can put everything in the crock pot and leave it for a few hours. I think the trick to making Sloppy Joes in the crock pot though is to add a little flour. It helps thicken the sauce up a little bit. This recipe has sausage in it, which I like because it is different but you can easily use all beef.
For more Crock Pot recipes see Slow Cooking Thursday.
Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1 pound package ground pork sausage
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1/2 medium-size green bell pepper, chopped
- 1 (8-oz.) can tomato sauce
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoons yellow mustard
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 8 hamburger buns, toasted
Brown beef and sausage with onion and bell pepper in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat, stirring 10 minutes or until beef and sausage crumble and are no longer pink. Drain well.
Place beef mixture in a 4 1/2-qt. slow cooker. Stir in tomato sauce and next 9 ingredients. Cover and cook on HIGH 4 hours. Serve on hamburger buns.
To freeze leftover Sloppy Joe mixture, let cool completely. Place in zip-top plastic freezer bags; lay bags flat, and stack in freezer. Thaw overnight in the fridge, or defrost in the microwave.
adapted from a Southern Living recipe.
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Love Sloppy Joe! This looks good…. Check out this sloppy joe recipe ( not crockpot but looks great! )
http://mjpuzzlemom.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/philly-cheesesteak-sloppy-joes/
MJ
Sounds great! Will definitely have to try this out.
Renee’
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My kids and my husband will just love this one
I do likke a good sloppy joe!
You know, I don’t think I’ve had a Sloppy Joe since I was a kid! This is great! I will most definitely make this … maybe just a little while from now since my daughter is too young to appreciate it. This one is going in my recipe book now.
~melody~
Cooking different versions of a recipe definitely helps fight the eating blahs. This recipe sound delicious!
Thanks for leaving a comment. This recipe sounds great! This would be good for youth night at church!
Thanks for leaving a comment on my blog. This recipe would be great for youth night at our church! Thanks for sharing.
hey, Lynn… have you adjusted this recipe for being GF? I would love to make sloppy joes for my MIL when she comes this weekend {since my FIL loves them so much}… but most of the recipes I’ve found won’t work for GF folks. Any tips?
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@SnoWhite, Sloppy joes are one of the things that I have not tackled. I did make a pretty good hamburger bun that might work for the bread part, but haven’t used it for sloppy joes. In the past we have put sloppy joe sauce over potatoes and that would be a good gf option. As far as the ingredients in the sauce, for this recipe I would just use a gf sausage and leave out the flour or use potato starch. I am finding the potato starch is the best thicken for things. It think….everything else in the recipe would be gf. I have a favorite recipe for sloppy joes that I never got posted. I will have to do that soon, because I don’t think the sauce part has any gluten in it.
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