Easy Kids Meals

Another different topping pizza tonight; Sloppy Joe.

The recipe was interesting called salsa and grape jelly.  That combination seemed off, so in my usual fashion I substituted my homemade spaghetti sauce for the salsa and used the grape jelly.

• Pizza Dough (I promise I will post my recipe one of these days)

• 1 lb of ground beef

• 1 medium onion chopped

• 1 cup spaghetti sauce

• ½ cup grape Jelly

• ½ cup ketchup

• Mozzarella Cheese

1. Brown the ground beef

2. Add the onion cook till tender

3. Add the spaghetti sauce, grape Jelly

4. Season with garlic powder, salt

5. Cook beef mixture till thickened (about 6 minutes)

6. Heat oven to 450 F

7. Spread out Pizza dough

8. Cover with ground beef mixture

9. Top with Cheese

10. (I wish I had fresh tomatoes, I think they would have a made a nice addition to the pizza giving it some color)

My kids love chutney, we normally have it with rice but I saw a chef making turkey burgers on the Today show on NBC and I thought I would give it a try. Chutney is truly the secret ingredient in this easy dinner.

• 3 lbs turkey

• ½ cup finely chopped onion

• ½ cup chopped fresh parsley

• olive oil

• Worcestershire sauce

• Salt

• Black pepper

• Lettuce leaves

• Baked ham

• Mango chutney

• Slices of Swiss cheese

1. Mix the turkey, onion parsley, 2 tablespoons of olive oil, salt and pepper gently in a large bowl

2. Make 8 patties or in my case 6 larger and 4 smaller ones

3. Preheat grill (I have a George foreman Grill)

4. Cook burgers 8 minutes a side or till done

5. Add Swiss cheese till it melts

6. Assemble burger by placing the lettuce on the bottom, followed by the ham, burger then 1 tablespoon of chutney

Enjoy!