Sloppy Joes

And who doesn't have a recipe for this one?  But I needed a blog post and I am taking a meal to a couple of teen-aged boys and I think this will fill them up quite nicely.  Their Mom is at Duke Medical Center with another brother and several of the women at church are providing some meals for the boys in her absence.  This goes together very quickly, but does need to simmer for an hour.  I chose to throw it in the slow cooker because I don't have time to cook when I get home from work. You can probably substitute ground turkey to make this recipe a little healthier.  I won't do that to the boys--their palates would probably freak out.

Ingredients:

1 lb. hamburger*

1 1/2 cups chopped celery

1 1/2 cups chopped onion

1 t. salt

dash of pepper

1 14-oz can diced tomatoes

1 cup Catsup (or ketchup, whichever you prefer)

1 T. Worcestershire sauce

1 t. chili powder

hamburger buns (potato rolls are da bomb!)

1.  Brown meat and drain off fat.

2.  Mix meat and other ingredients together in a skillet and bring to a boil.  Simmer one hour.

3.  Serve on buns and add some celery/carrot sticks and maybe some chips of some kind.

NOTE:  I stretched the meat a little with Taco TVP that I had on hand so that I could keep some of this for our supper.  Also, if  you are using a slow cooker, just do everything according to the recipe and then cook on low for about 5 hours.