Slumgulion

Slumgulion

Guess who rode her bike to work today??? Yep…Me! I woke up later than normal because my kids are off school, so I didn’t have time to walk, so I jumped on my bike and 15 minutes later, I was at my desk! It’s a beautiful sunny day in Chicago with a high of 80 degrees!! Wahoo!! I’m so glad its finally getting warm.

I first posed this recipe about a year ago. It’s called Slumgulion, I don’t know where my parents got the name from, but we ate it growing up all the time, and its one of my go-to recipes when I don’t know what to make, or want to make something quick and cheap!

You can use many variations. You can use ground chicken or turkey in place of the ground sirloin, you can add different veggies, change up the shapes of the pasta, whatever you like. I mostly use elbow macaroni, but in this version I used a twisty kind of pasta. It’s so good, you will make it again and again. I have brought this to pot luck suppers, or block parties because it makes a big pot!

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Ingredients:

1 lb. ground sirloin
1 green pepper, chopped fine
1 small white onion, chopped fine
3 cloves of garlic, chopped,
2 14.5 ounce cans of tomato sauce
1 14.5 ounce can of diced tomatoes
1 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
Dash of salt, pepper
3 cups uncooked whole wheat elbow macaroni.

First, I cook the macaroni, drain and set aside.

In a big pot, I saute the green pepper and onion and garlic in Pam cooking spray.

Add the ground sirloin and cook, breaking up the meat into small pieces. I drain most of the fat.

Next, I add the 3 cans of tomatoes, the cooked macaroni, add the spices and cook for about 15 minutes on low heat stirring occasionally.

It makes about 10 1 cup servings. Each 1 cup serving is approx. 191 calories, 6.9 fat and 2.8 fiber.

I’ve also made this in my crockpot. I just brown the meat first, drain the fat, put that into the crock pot with the rest of the ingredients except the pasta. Let it cook all day, and then all you have to do is cook the pasta when you get home from work, combine the two and you are done!

Don’t forget to check out the last leg of my brother’s virtual book tour at Cranky Fitness!!

Have a great day everyone!

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15 comments

  • I would be in heaven if I could ride my bike to work. Great exercise and saves gas over driving the truck. However, I would be dead within the first mile thanks to the town not being bike friendly.

    Looks great and sounds like a good nostalgic dish.

  • I love biking to work, except for almost getting killed daily by crazy drivers. I don’t know how it is in Chicago, but here in Boston, the drivers are not particularly bike-friendly!

  • Christina@delglaze me. I live in a suburb of Chicago about 8 miles west of Downtown (you can see the Sears Tower from my town!)

    I avoid the major street and just took side streets, so it was great!!

  • I’ve thought of biking to work also, haha, but just haven’t done it yet. It’s beautiful here today also … windy, but being 80 degrees I sure don’t mind a little wind!

    I haven’t replied to your e-mail yet because I can’t get on that e-mail account at work aaaand you guessed it, I’m at work, haha. But that would be really great if you really don’t need them! (Because honestly, if you don’t wish to part with them I’m set too because I do have a treadmill and a Boflex I could use!) I’ve just found I’m more excited to workout to tapes like that. (Ha, and, yeah, my current TaeBo is VHS also ; ) But anyways, yes, if you really don’t need them and really don’t mind (if you change your mind I won’t feel bad either!) and thanks so much!!!

    Aaaaand back to my comment about your post … my mom used to make that and we always called that recipe goulosh (goolaush?) Ha, I don’t have a clue how you would spell it??

  • Thanks for the comment on my blog! I love the title to your blog.

    Love the dinner. Very easy and kid friendly!

  • I love reading about family recipes people enjoy over and over 🙂 Looks yummy! I’m very jealous you can walk or ride your bike to work!

  • That looks like the perfect dinner! Yum!

    I wish I could bike to work. But I work downtown and live more than 20 miles away. Plus, there’s no place to put it!

  • Mmm, this looks delicious! A perfect weeknight meal. I love that it’s an old family favorite. Nostalgic recipes are the best.

  • I wonder where the name came from? We have a couple things like that too and they are mostly morphed words that my sister and I couldn’t pronounce correctly when we were little.

    I’m totally freaked to ride a bike in London with the crazy double deckers and the whole wrong side of the road thing…

    That’s so great that you can ride to work. Love the squiggly pasta.

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