So I promised you a more exciting dinner after Monday night's baked chicken salad, and I do believe dinner last night did not disappoint in that statement! ;) We made Philly Cheesesteak Sloppy Joes with Apple-Lime-Peanut Slaw...yowza!
The Sloppy Joes, however, turned into a bit of an experiment since we were planning on using this recipe and then ended up with a few swaps. One, an inadvertent swap since Scott had accidentally taken steak out of the freezer rather than ground beef;) So he cubed the steak into tiny pieces and cooked it with some diced peppers & onions...
I was afraid the steak wasn't going to absorb the beef broth, Worcestershire & steak sauce very well...but of course, like most of Scott's "cooking mistakes", it turned out just fine;) It was a cheeseSTEAK after all, no?? :)
And I had all good intentions of making the recipe's provolone sauce to go along with the sandwich, buttttt I had spied this at Trader Joe's a few weeks ago and was looking for the perfect excuse to try it out....
DING, DING, DING! We HAVE A WINNER!!! :)
We cut up slices of this FLAVOR BURSTING, TANGY, STRONG, DELICIOUS cheese and melted it on the whole wheat rolls...(I just love hamburger buns for sloppy joes, do you??:)
...and then we topped the rolls with the steak:) Scott called it the "Not-so-Sloppy" sloppy joe, since the steak wasn't as much of a mess as the ground beef would have been...:)
...Although, I don't know what he was talking about, from catching a glimpse of HIS sandwich!!!
These were REALLY, REALLY delicious! And although we want to try the "ground beef/provolone sauce" version one time...we did indeed love the steak & (DEFINITELY!) the caramelized onion cheese! (...hmmmmm...now just to find more excuse to eat that cheese;)
For our side, we took a little help from Aarti Paarti and made her Apple-Lime-Peanut Slaw. And even though you used 2 limes for the dressing, it really had a nice SUBTLE flavor to the slaw! Sweet, sour, tangy & crunchy all rolled into one! ;)
And for the record...the recipe called for garam masala, which I did not have. So instead of buying a whole bottle, I looked up the ingredients and whipped up my own!
Now grant it, if you have ALL of these spices on hand, there is a PRETTY GOOD chance that you may actually have your own a bottle of GM...buttttttt, just in case, I figured I'd post the recipe I used:
- 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
- 1 tablespoon cumin
- 1 1/2 tsp. coriander
- 1 1/2 tsp. cardamom
- 1 1/2 tsp. pepper
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. ground cloves
All that, and you only used a quarter teaspoon of the mix! ;) Butttt...I figured I'd have more if I ever need it;) Time to add it to my "homemade spice rack"! ;) (which I remembered to take a picture of last night;)
And to round out our meal: What could be the LAST of the Jersey corn. Two weeks ago we had AMAZING corn...but last night, it was just blannnnnnddddddddd :( Here's to the ONE thing I'll miss about summer...oh sweet corn: I'll miss thee!
And speaking of the end of summer, we took Penny on another walk to the park last night after dinner (she was literally leaping off all fours when Scott brought out her leash:). Well we got home around the same time as last week (7:45ish), but it was about 20x's DARKER out!!!! I could NOT believe that in less than ONE WEEK it had gotten SO DARK, SO EARLY! Bringing us to the one thing I'm not a fan of in the winter:( Oh well...with the good, comes the bad in all things, right?? ;)
Anyway...I got Delores working all day again today on another "End of Summer" type dish...here's a preview:
Hope you have a great Middle of the Week Day! :) My sights are already set for the weekend:)
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