As you all know I just love to cook and I always like to make everything go a bit further than it should as in making two meals out of one.
A little while ago I did a blog on my homemade family recipe of sloppy joe's.
A little while ago I did a blog on my homemade family recipe of sloppy joe's.
If you missed that post you can find it right HERE
With that being said I had also mentioned how I take the leftover sloppy joe's and make pizza burgers just like our awesome school cafeteria cooks, in my little village, used to make for all the students.
We had amazing cooks in our school kitchen. Almost everything was homemade and totally delicious. We didn't have food shipped in, prepacked, and cooked. They made it as if they were in their very own kitchens cooking for their own families, and then all of us lucky kids got to dine very well. We dined so well that as adults and as different generations of many classes we still talk about it while we drool down our shirts just even touching on the memories. Our school was just known for this.
Some awesome ladies fed us very well!
This is just one more thing I get to brag about while living in small town USA.
So I decided to incorporate some of these scrumptious meals into my own and make them a mark in my families food-y tradition.
Anyway, here's what you do to make
This is just one more thing I get to brag about while living in small town USA.
So I decided to incorporate some of these scrumptious meals into my own and make them a mark in my families food-y tradition.
Anyway, here's what you do to make
Pizza Burgers
(Made a couple of days later with the Sloppy Joe's leftovers)
*Preheat oven to 400 degrees
You will need:
1 pack of hamburger buns or 1 hot dog buns
1 bowl of your left over sloppy joe's. Enough leftovers to make 18-20 ice cream scoop fulls of sloppy joe's.
2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese
While you are waiting for the oven to preheat. Put your leftover Sloppy Joe's in a sauce pan and warm it up on the stove. Make sure it is warmed through.
Next take a cookie sheet and put all of your hamburger or hot dog buns on it. As many as you can fit. If you are using hamburger buns put both the top and the bottoms down separately on the sheet and face up.
Your mixture should be warmed up by now.
Take a large tablespoon or an ice cream scoop and put put one big scoop on the hamburger buns or in the buns if you are using a hot dog bun. Be sure the mixture is spread all over. Now take your shredded cheddar cheese and sprinkle that over the top of the bbq mixture-to your liking.
Put in oven until the cheese melts together. Which is generally about 5-8 minutes.
Take out of oven and let rest for about 5 minutes. Use a spatula and serve.
You will need:
1 pack of hamburger buns or 1 hot dog buns
1 bowl of your left over sloppy joe's. Enough leftovers to make 18-20 ice cream scoop fulls of sloppy joe's.
2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese
While you are waiting for the oven to preheat. Put your leftover Sloppy Joe's in a sauce pan and warm it up on the stove. Make sure it is warmed through.
Next take a cookie sheet and put all of your hamburger or hot dog buns on it. As many as you can fit. If you are using hamburger buns put both the top and the bottoms down separately on the sheet and face up.
Your mixture should be warmed up by now.
Take a large tablespoon or an ice cream scoop and put put one big scoop on the hamburger buns or in the buns if you are using a hot dog bun. Be sure the mixture is spread all over. Now take your shredded cheddar cheese and sprinkle that over the top of the bbq mixture-to your liking.
Put in oven until the cheese melts together. Which is generally about 5-8 minutes.
Take out of oven and let rest for about 5 minutes. Use a spatula and serve.
Below I will show you the step by step process, just because, I love recipes with pictures.
As always I know I desperately, in the saddest of ways, need new plates-(sigh)
Thank you Shirley, Joyce, Ann, and all of the other incredible women in my little country school for taking such pride in your job which impacted all of our memories of you for a lifetime.
Because of you we get to continue these homemade meals in all of our homes and I'd just like to say thank you, ladies, and a job well done with much love.
Because of you we get to continue these homemade meals in all of our homes and I'd just like to say thank you, ladies, and a job well done with much love.
Toodle-loo
Nikki Pugh
5 comments:
I know what you mean about schools that offer great handmade but also hot food.
In our middle school we had the most amazing selection of sandwiches and cooked food. When we talk or think about it we drool.... when I went to secondary school it was a massive disappointment as all that was on offer really was pizza, chips and beans.... I ended up piling on the pounds which haven't disappeared :P... it never made sense though as to why they didn't make it within the school as they had a big enough kitchen and not all the students ate there because they had a tuck shop full of junk food.
As you know I work in a primary school now but the meals are hideous pre-cooked things which they still manage to serve half cooked. The positions are also tiny.
I forgot to say you just made me dream about the gorgeous tuna balls we used to have... btw it was also great because we were allowed to go back for 2nds!
Bubbles-I totally get it!!! Why when the food is pre-packed is it that some schools can't even warm it up enough to make the food hot??? I don't get this one bit. I am so glad I got you daydreaming about your beloved tuna balls-LOL!
We also got to go back for 2nds, 3rds and sometimes 4ths depending on what the item was on the menu that day (well, the older kids, usually boys, went back that many times) but it was limitless and lovely!!! I loved the ladies in the kitchen.
I always LOVE your comments, Bubbles, Always!!!!
Do you know once we all left middle school we all miss the tuna balls...we actually tried finding some in the supermarket but there aren't any and I haven't found a recipe online to make them :(.
I'm glad my comments are so appreciated :)... its really weird but after reading your radio post I thought later I wonder what Nikki has been cooking lately :P and here you are with a post. You read my mind so well...
Btw have you thought about toasting your tea cakes (thats what you call them in England or baps!). Sometimes we get chicken burgers which are properly breasts of chicken (not processed) and they lightly toast both pieces and for some reason it adds an extra taste to the burger... its also not squiggy and oily.
Yum, yum, Sloppy Joe, finger-lickin' good. You were lucky to have tasty school food. We had kids who would toss rice and potatoes up to see if it would stick to the ceiling. It was that good.
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