Sloppy Kid Joe

I wanna know you, cos you're so damn cool.

Ugly Kid Joe are one of my guilty pleasures ( along with Chris de Burgh and the Backstreet Boys. YEAH! Deal with it).
I think most Metal fans like Ugly Kid Joe. They may not admit it, but get a bunch of drunk Metalheads in a room and play "Cat's in the Cradle " every damn one of them will be singin their hearts out.
........ Ma boy wust just like meeeeeeeeeeeee... woooooooooooooooaaaa oooooooh oooooooh.
Ahem.
" So Damn Cool" is my favourite Ugly Kid Joe song.
It's pretty dang heavy. So heavy in fact that if you dropped it on your foot you'd have a tear in your eye.
Ugly Kid Joe were the first band that I ever head banged to. I tell you, the pain I was in the next day was phenomenal.
Well, not as sore as when some stupid punk decided to stage dive at the BACK of a Sick of it All gig onto my bloody head. DICK!

Regardless, here's the video for So damn Cool.




So clearly I'm doing a recipe for a Sloppy Joe. But I'm doing it Greek stylee so maybe I should call it " Sloppy Kid Stavros"????
Yeah.

Here goes

Sloppy Kid Joe

Ingredients

250g good quality lean lamb mince
1 small onion finely diced
1 small carrot peeled and finely diced
4 cloves garlic minced
1 tsp dried oregano
Half tsp dried thyme
1 bay leaf
1 tsp ground corriander
Half tsp ground cumin
Quarter tsp ground cinnamon
1 beef jelly stock cube
1 tsp tomato puree
1 tbsp tomato ketchup
Half tsp soy sauce
Half tsp mustard
250 ml water
15g brown sugar
2 tsp red wine vinegar
Pinch salt and pepper
Splash olive oil

100g Quark or natural yogurt
1 spring onion sliced thinly

Big hand full spinach or rocket leaves
4 Pitta bread or flat breads

OK, first put a splash of olive oil into a large pot or pan and put onto a medium high heat.

Add the onion, carrot and garlic and cook without colouring for about 5 minutes until softened.

Add the oregano, thyme, cumin, corriander and cinnamon and and cook for 1 minute. make sure the spices don't stick to the bottom of the pan and burn. Add a tiny bit of water if it starts to stick.

Add the tomato puree, ketchup, soy sauce, mustard, vinegar, sugar, stock cube, sugar, bay leaf and water. Stir then bring to a simmer and cook uncovered for about 30 to 40 minutes until lamb is cooked and sauce is thick. Season with salt and pepper.

While the mince is cooking mix the Quark and spring onion together.

When the lamb is ready toast your pitta bread, stuff with spinach or rocket then the lamb mix and a splodge of the Quark sauce.

You'll probably need napkins. Lots of napkins.