First time making this among-my-fav American "comfort foods" abroad! Sloppy Joes, zurich-style... I made them using chicken (and turkey the second batch this weekend), instead of pork or beef. Cooked slowly in a dutch-oven pot (in the oven) for a few hours loaded with herbs, garlic, some onion, and olive oil. ANDdddd... had a first-time adventure with making barbeque sauce, which essentially does not exist here! Went fairly well! The sauce I did with a can of stewed tomatos in tomato sauce, an additional 3-4 tomatos, 2 onions, 2 celery stalks, 1 green bell pepper, 1 red bell pepper, 2 hot chilli peppers, loads of roasted garlic, herbs, cooked down till the veggies were soft and falling apart, then adding some mustard, Worsteschire sauce, vinegar, molasses and sugar, loads of pepper and salt. Then blend!
damn good sloppy joes, I didn't know how much I missed them till that first bite!
OH! And discovered that I can make some half-decent hamburger-bun substitutes (since those are also hard to come by here....) soft, light, and even made them as 3/4 whole-wheat flour ... warm and fluffy out of the oven..
