Sun Basket Easy Sloppy Joes with pickled jalapenos and classic creamy coleslaw

One of the reasons that I like Sun Basket is their 20 minute meals to make the work week dinners a lot easier to prepare.  Sun Basket packs in all of the ingredients needed, no need to go to the store and buy a big bottle of something you will probably only ever use for 1 recipe.  Like all packaging places they sometimes mess up.  More on that later.

When I opened the bag for this meal, I was delighted to see that they had chopped all the cabbage and shredded the carrots.  This will definitely make my work a lot easier.  Most of the ingredients are pre-measured and placed in a bag with all the ingredients together. 

Here are the ingredients for this recipe:

I usually start by reading over the instructions and making sure that I have everything I need.  

This recipe arrived without the Sun Basket Cole Slaw Dressing.  If you look closely in the top right corner, you will see that they sent me 2 Sloppy Joe sauce bases and no Cole Slaw dressing.  

So here is where my cooking skills come in handy.  Sun basket lists the ingredients in all of their sauces.  I pulled together the ingredients, looked up recipes with those ingredients online, decided on quantities based on how much dressing I thought Sun Basket meant to send and then added them to the cabbage and carrot mixture.  For this recipe, I used 1/4 C mayonnaise, 1 tsp apple cider vinegar, 1/4 tsp honey.  I would have added a little less than 1/4 teaspoon of celery seed, if I had it.  I didn't even have celery to add to the mixture.  I tossed them together and added salt and pepper to taste  and voila!  Mmm, mmm good!

For a good Classic Coleslaw Recipe.  For the full meal recipe go to Sunbasket.com.

Here is a picture of the full meal.

Disclaimer:  I am not paid by Sun Basket to write this blog.  I would bet that they do not yet know this blog exists.  I simply like the recipes created by Executive Chef Justine Kelly and her team.  Sometimes, I need to modify them or recreate a sauce.

I am a home chef, no degree, no fancy schools.  Just a love of good food.