Homemade sloppy joes done. This. Was. So. Bland. I tried it in the spirit of the goal, but I ended up doctoring the rest of the batch pretty liberally for a sauce with some flavor.

Random recipe #2-- My girlfriend was highly amused by this challenge and insisted that picking a page number while in an entirely different state from the book counted as even more random. She picked page 69, naturally. This one shouldn't be too bad, although I'm not sure when it's going to be safe to buy ground beef.

Random recipe #1-- Ambrosia salad, picked by closing my eyes and letting the book fall open. This has sour cream and powdered sugar in the same recipe. Damn you, 1950s. At least it's not some kind of aspic.