Sloppy Jane (My Drunk Kitchen) | Recipe

Another addition to our Recipe a Week project, this time with My Drunk Kitchen, a Youtube cooking show that has branched out greatly and even produced a couple of cookbooks. We had the original My Drunk Kitchen cookbook, which isn’t actually a cookbook per say. The book is more of an inspirational, cooking adjacent book about the author, Hannah Hart, and what she has learned over the years. Her Youtube videos are pretty similar to this – sort of half recipes that always end in a meaningful way, giving you something to take away from it. With that in mind, we took inspiration from her recipe, which was more like a list of ingredients, and wrote our own out of it.

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Sloppy Jane

Course: dinner

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Low calories, Sloppy Joe

Ingredients

• 1 Whole Wheat Pita
• 1 Butterleaf Lettuce
• 1 Beefsteak Tomato

Sloppy Jane Mix

• 1 pound Ground Turkey
• 1/4 Onion Chopped
• 1/4 Green Bell Pepper Chopped
• 2 tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce
• 1 teaspoon Mustard
• 3/4 cup Ketchup
• 3 teaspoons brown sugar
• Salt and Pepper to taste

Instructions

Sloppy Jane Mix

• Add a splash of olive oil into a pan and heat it on medium heat. Add in your ground turkey, onion and bell pepper.
• Fry until cooked fully, then drain off any liquid in the pan.
• Add in all of the other ingredients (apart from salt and pepper) and stir together. Cook for 30 minutes until reduced.
• Add salt and pepper to taste.

Assembly

• Toast your pita lightly, then cut it open.
• Add in some spoonfuls of your Sloppy Jane mix, some tomato slices and some lettuce.

Notes

For Hannah Hart’s Sloppy Jane mix, she just uses canned turkey chili, but we decided to make our own from scratch by making a sloppy joe mix but putting in turkey meat instead of beef.

Hannah Hart’s recipe is more like a guide, talking about burning the pita, the dangers of microwaves, and that it’s probably fine anyway because it doesn’t really matter. The life lesson for this recipe was ‘Trust me. You look good.’ and the matching cocktail was vodka and gin as they have the least amount of calories. It’s a pretty funny recipe to follow and the pictures are very basic – not trying to look like some restaurant quality food. There are literally bagged carrots, broccoli and celery just shoved on the side of a pink plate. The opening talks a lot about being an adult with first world problems and googling illnesses.

This is a really feel-good type of book, giving you bite-sized bits of life and lessons to take from them before you get to the recipe. Most of the recipes are easy – anyone can follow them – and none of them go too in-depth in process or require much skill. It’s a good book for those who enjoy Hannah Hart and her style, as it really shines through the book itself.

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