Week 16: 80s Food - Sloppy Joes [Cooking]

Intro from Cooking Challenge: This was the decade that personal computers started to appear in homes, and where jheri curls, hi-tops and linebacker-sized shoulder pads in women’s shirts were considered cool. The 80’s gave us the Mario Brothers, the first two Back to the Future movies, Eddie Murphy and Michael Jackson at their best and the McRib. Here’s a list of the top 10 recipes that defined the 80’s. You may also want to check out this recent post about the topic. If you want to know what housewives were cooking up, check these out.

This was one of my first real times striking out on my own without a recipe (I'm a baker, not a chef, and I'm used to relying on exact measurements). I'd say it turned out really well!

The meat is a mix of ground pork and lean ground beef, and I added chopped onion and green pepper. The sauce is primarily crushed tomatoes and ketchup (Will went a little overboard on the ketchup...), along with varying degrees of steak sauce, paprika, sugar, white vinegar, garlic salt, and pepper. Spooned onto potato buns and served with steamed broccoli and roasted baby 'bellas.