Thankyou Chachacha! I appreciate the encouragement. I really get so nervous in the kitchen, I prefer to stay out of it actually! LOL

This thread, started back in October, about comfort food, was fun I thought. Kind of like a group of people in the kitchen -- cooking and conversation.

Well, it's really cold now here in Ohio. I am jealous of your blue skies there in Florida. Oh well. There's always comfort food, huh.

I thought I would share tonight's comfort food recipe.

Sloppy Joes

Brown 2 lbs. of ground beef and drain the fat

And add the following:
A small onion, chopped
A 15 oz. can of tomato sauce
1/2 C. cider vinegar
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
1 Tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce
1/2 C. brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon chili powder

Simmer until the flavors are blended.

You can adjust the vinegar and brown sugar to taste. Also, add salt and pepper to taste.

Buy your favorite buns and you are in business fast. Easy supper.

Something else about Sloppy Joes -- here in Cincinnati, we sometimes embrace our southern side. We are not that far away from being southern. I think that is why some of us like coleslaw on our Sloppy Joes and barbecue. I know I do. And I think that is a southern thing.

So about that coleslaw....

Just buy a bag of it in the salad section at the grocery or chop your own if you are so inclined. When I am in a hurry, the dressing is Marzetti's Slaw Dressing. Sometimes I use the original and sometimes I use the lighter version. It depends.

And when I am feeling really, really ambitious, I make this slaw dressing.

Slaw Dressing

Mix the following ingredients together:
1 & 1/3 C. sugar (I adjust that down a little.)
1 & 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
1 teaspoon of salt (you can adjust that or even leave it out if you want to)
3 Tablespoons dry onion
1 & 1/2 teaspoon celery seed

And mix these two ingredients together:
1/2 C. cider vinegar
1/4 C. cup water

Then put it all into the mixer bowl and add 1 cup of mayo
Drizzle 1 cup of oil while mixing it all on low speed

Now, about that mayo....

I think it has to be Hellman's.

There is something in this forum somewhere with a Hellman's vs. Miracle Whip debate. As I recall, I don't think the debate got too heated, but that issue could get ugly. People tend to be either Miracle Whip or Hellman's fans. It can get pretty serious.

When I married Mr. Boomer, I converted from Miracle Whip to Hellman's and it's been that way since. It was in our wedding vows. Boomette converted her husband to Hellman's from Miracle Whip. And now his whole family -- nothing but Hellman's.

But I digress.

Anyway, I thought somebody out there might like an easy recipe for Sloppy Joes. I only like easy recipes when I am doing the cooking. This is not as easy as opening a can of Manwich. But it's close.

Boomer

Boomer Marie! We took the same home ec class in 7th grade! THAT is where I got that exact recipe and I love it, love it, love it. I do cole slaw with Marzetti dressing too, but prefer to run my cabbage through the ole' Cuisinart.

Us Cincinnati girls know comfort food!!

And I wonder if the fact that so many of us Cincinnati girls have that big dose of German in us is what makes us put vinegar in so many things. I'm always a little heavier on the vinegar and a little lighter on the sugar in those recipes I put here.

I do so love good German potato salad. The perfect balance of vinegar and sugar makes it work. Of course, you need about a pound of bacon in it, too.

Boomer

I use the Marzetti's original cole slaw dressing not only on cole slaw, but also on potato salad. That was how my mom did her's, and potato salad just doesn't taste right without that Marzetti's dressing.

Cincinnati Girls,
My cousins from Cincinnati were in for the holidays and Celene brought a local homemade peanut butter & chocolate confection known as Buckeyes............Omg, swoon food, one taste and you just might faint. Reeses taste like the store brand by comparison. How come you're not telling us about Buckeyes?mmmmm, yummy:icon_hungry:

Hi Whalen.

When I saw your post, I pulled out every local cookbook that I have and could not find the recipe for Buckeyes. But I sure know what you are talking about. And it is probably a very good thing that I do not have the recipe. I think they are really easy to make and I would probably make them every other day and eat them all. Even though I am prone to hyperbole, that statement is probably not too far off, at least on a bad day anyway. They are like the best Reese's Cup ever.

A friend brought us some Buckeyes at Christmas.

So if no other Buckeye beats me to it, I will catch up with that recipe and post it. It may take me a few days so maybe somebody will have already found it. I wonder if GG has the recipe.

I am glad you liked them. They are made to look like the Buckeyes from the tree.

Boomer the Buckeye

A couple of days ago I promised to track down this recipe for you if nobody beat me to it. Well, the friend who gave us the Buckeyes at Christmas just called so I got it.

Here goes.

Mix these ingredients:
2 Cups peanut butter
3 Cups confectioner's sugar
1/2 lb. of butter

And....

Melt together:
A 12 oz. pkg. of semi-sweet chocolate chips and 1/2 layer of paraffin wax

And then....

Roll the peanut butter mixture into balls and dip them in the melted chocolate & paraffin mix to make them look like Buckeyes. (No, not like people from Ohio. Make them look like the Buckeyes from the tree.)

Whalen, this is wicked, wicked stuff I am giving you the recipe for. But you know that already and you asked. Have fun.

Boomer

O My, O My,
The diet started yesterday, I know, I'll make them for the kids next door.
:evil6::evil6::evil6:

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