It’s nearing dinner time, and I’ve got all these leftovers in the fridge, but I don’t want to HEAR the WHINING if I slap leftovers on the table one more time. I could…
a-tape their mouths shut so there will be no complaining. But then there would be no eating of the leftovers, either, so that’s probably not a good option.
b-just listen to the whining and picky eaters’ rambling ons, but that might just drive me over the edge of insanity, and I’m already teetering on the edge, so that doesn’t sound like a good idea, either.
c-use the leftovers to come up with a completely different dinner. Well, that would be great if I had any creativity. Hey, wait! I do have creativity! I’ll choose C!
Thus the sloppy joe pizza was born.
–I made pizza dough and spread it in the pan.
–Instead of sauce, I spread the leftover sloppy joe meat on the crust. It’s kind of saucy, itself, so I thought that would cover well. I needed to add one small can of tomato sauce and spread it over the sauce, because it looked too dry alone.
–A generous sprinkling of mozzarella cheese goes on the top.
That’s it. Sloppy joe pizza was born.
The kids really liked it. Of course that may have been that we ate on lunch trays and ate outside (probably our last dinner outside of the season) and pretended we were at school. But whatever it was, I think the dinner was a success.
That is brilliant! I’ll tuck that little gem of an idea away for later, thanks! Around here my kids favorite dinner is something called “fix-your-owni”. Sounds like macaroni, but much, much easier for mom. Honestly, Eli regularly begs, “can it be fixyourowni tonight, mom?”. Sure! Who am I to deny the sweet child????
Good idea! Now if only the hubby would like sloppy Joe´s….. 🙂
But it sounds great for kids mouths.
Oh, you’re so clever. Does my heart proud to know you’re so clever with food!
Sounds like a great idea! Of course, it wouldn’t work in our house because my kids don’t like pizza. We had leftover pizza tonight, and they chose burritos instead.
What an awesome idea! You go girl!