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[quote=Anonymous][u]Sloppy Joes[/u].

To start, it's easy.  Brown the ground beef or turkey, follow the directions on the grocery store mix.  Serve over toasted buns.

It's not hard to do better, though.  I chop onion, carrot, zucchini, and garlic all very fine, and add them to the ground meat.  You could also do bell peppers, I suppose. Once it's all mixed up and fried up, then I add the flavorings from scratch.  Don't measure, just guess, stir in, taste, adjust:  dried thyme, ketchup, worcestershire sauce, chili powder, fresh ground black pepper.  Maybe a tiny bit of brown sugar.  Maybe chopped tomato if I have one that needs to be used up.  Water, beer, or a tiny bit of homemade stock if it needs thinning.  Tomato paste if it needs thickening.

One skillet, serve it over buns, done.  Add a vegetable.

Speaking of vegetables,

[u]Sauteed spinach[/u].

Slice a shallot very thin.  Mince or thin-slice some garlic--2 or 3 cloves.  
Wash a bunch of spinach.  Dry it in a colander or salad spinner.

Heat a frying pan over medium heat.  When it's hot, add a little oil and swirl it around.  Fry the shallots and garlic for about a minute--don't let the garlic burn.  Start adding the spinach (still a bit damp from the wash/dry) into the pan.  The pan should be hot enough that the spinach makes crackly sizzly sounds.  Fill the pan, the spinach shrinks quickly.  When it's shrunk down, add some more.  When it's all in there, add a handful of raisins, and half a handful of pine nuts if you have them.  Salt to taste.  [/quote]

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