 It's delicious. I am eating something so good sloppy joes. I'm using my little rocker blade to chop these. I bet your momma made sloppy joes. Whose momma did it? Even if she opened the can of sloppy joe mix, she made you some sloppy joes. But today, we're going to do it homemade. I didn't have any fresh bell pepper so I had some in the freezer and I just beat it up. We're going to pour it in here. We're going to saute this until it's nice and tender. I'm going to probably just take it out. That way it won't be squibbing in hand over the grease. While these are sauteing, I like to go ahead and add a lot of my spice. A quarter teaspoon of chili to this sloppy joe mix. I ain't much but that's all we want. Just a taste of it. I'm going to put in a whole teaspoon of pepper and a teaspoon of salt. I know we've got onion in here but I still like the powder too. One of the viewers actually told me to start using it and I just love it and everything. I'm going to put in two teaspoons of this because I love it. Sloppy joes because it was one of my favorites. I was always excited on sloppy joe night. My momma most of the time opened the can for the most part. I will say that a lot of people talk about food tasting like a can. If there's anything to me that tastes like a can, it's normally tomato sauce like sloppy joes type stuff or like shabbardies, spaghetti and meatballs. If it's been in a can too long, you can taste the can. Be real careful buying your sloppy joe. Look at the expiration date. Make sure it's fresh so that you don't get that awful taste. Today we're not going to use sloppy joe mix or make it raw. There's nothing wrong with taking shortcuts when you need to. We're going to get this out and start grilling our ground beef. I'm just taking this out so that it's not swimming. We're going to turn the eye on high pretty much or close to it. I've got five pounds of ground beef and sure I'm not going to use five pounds. I'm only going to use about a pound and a half of ground beef for this recipe. A little bit of fresh garlic in here when we ground this beef. If you have garlic powder, use it if you don't have any fresh garlic. And just use about a half teaspoon, I guess, to a teaspoon. Just how much you like. My husband does not like garlic salt. If you use garlic salt, make sure that you don't over salt it. You might want to reduce the salt somewhere else. We're going to want to separate the meat pretty good. If you don't have a hamburger separator, I've got one. I just don't have it out right now. Just make sure you smash it down into the skillet and separate it good. After you ground your beef, my beef was actually chucked. There was hardly anything down on the bottom so I'm not going to drain it because there's not enough down in there to full width to me. So what we're going to do is add our onion and pepper and spices to the beef. Now I'm going to add a can, a small eight ounce can of tomato sauce. Now while you still have your can, we're going to fill it up with a ketchup. So just fill out your eight ounce can with ketchup and put it in your sauce. This ketchup does have a little Worcestershire in it already, vinegar, and it has sugar in it. So remember that we're going to taste it before we add sugar. Now I'm going to add a little extra Worcestershire. Don't overdo it. Some people put a little steak sauce in theirs instead of doing it that way. You can do that if you've got a little A1 or whatever you can throw that in there too. Now one thing I'm going to do today and you can choose to do two different things. You can add a little sugar and a little vinegar or you can put some sweet pickles in here. I'm going to put in sweet pickles because I like them. They taste good. I'm going to put in a good quarter cup. Taste this before I add any brown sugar but we may go ahead and add a little brown sugar as well. It looks good already. Now you're going to want this to simmer a good 20 minutes or so. Just put it on a real low heat and let those flavors get in all that meat. And you never serve a sloppy joe without putting it in the bun, tying up the bag, and letting the buns get real soft. And I'm going to turn it down on low. It's delicious. Take the sloppy joes and put them in the bun and then put the bun in a bag. Now if you don't want to make all eight sloppy joes, then you can use a gallon size bag if you've got one. And only put in a bag what you're going to eat and then save the rest of the bread. But I'm going to show you how I like to do it. This is my quarter cup scooper. And it works perfect just for a regular hamburger size. And then I like to make at least four or so and get them in the bag. And if you've got a big family, just go ahead and bag them all up and let them sit there for about 10 minutes before everybody comes to eat. And they're going to just be even better. Just fold that bag up underneath there. We'll be back in a minute. What's so fun about eating sloppy joes? You get to have chips. Mama gets an easy night and everybody gets to be sloppy at the table. Cheese puffs yummy. See my yummy sloppy joe? Now you don't want to make it so wet that the bottom of your bun is soggy. So don't add water to it. Just let it simmer and it'll be just right. Yummy. Thanks mama. Thanks for watching Colored Valley Cooks where we cook like mama did.