Kids Dish

Yesterdays CSA share brought

2 bags Roma tomatoes (for freezing or canning)
1 bok choy
2 small bunches celery
1 bunch radishes
1 bag arugula
1 bunch leeks

Of course I used none of it for dinner since I still have a ton of veggies leftover from last week.

I was in the mood for comfort food so I made Sloppy Joes and oven fries with a side of steamed green beans. I don’t use a can for Sloppy Joes I make them myself. It just takes a few minutes more than opening a can and the flavor is incomparable. Once you make them from scratch you won’t go back.

Sloppy Joes

2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 lb ground beef
1 small onion minced (I used a leek because it was older)
1 small hot pepper seeded and minced
1 clove garlic minced
1 tablespoon of brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon chili powder (or more to taste)
1 cup tomato puree (I used 4 seeded, chopped tomatoes)
1/4 cup ketchup
tabasco

Cook the onion and pepper in the oil until the onion is translucent and the pepper’s softened. Add the ground beef, brown sugar, salt and garlic, stirring to break up. When the beef is browned add the tomato puree, ketchup and chili powder. Cook until heated through. Add tabasco, salt and pepper to taste. Serve on hamburger buns with grated cheddar cheese.

Sam still won’t eat beef, but he loves oven fries and green beans and had them with a banana mango soy smoothie for protein.

And forgive me for the public service announcement, but please use humanely raised beef when you cook. Aside from the implications for the animals, it’s just so much safer. There’s been yet another recall for beef tainted with E. coli bacteria, and while the recall is for frozen hamburger patties it’s still pretty sketchy. I know that it’s convenient to buy frozen patties, but it doesn’t take more than a minute to make patties yourself. The farm where I get my meat sells patties as well so safe and convenient aren’t that far removed.

The recall involves Topps burger products. For more information about the tainted patties look here.