There are three components to this dish — mac and cheese, chili, and pizza. Similar to the garbage plate, this monster of a sandwich is a few meals combined to create a culinary masterpiece (or disaster, take your pick). While making this, we felt like we were on an episode of Epic Meal Time. You too, can feel like you’re a YouTube star making mad stacks.

This recipe is going to test your multitasking skills. Luckily there’s two of us, so we were able to divide the work. We definitely recommend having a friend help out, assuming of course, that you can find someone who is willing to help you make the Sloppy Jessica. (You’ll definitely need someone to help you eat it, so having a friend or two to help you out is highly recommended.)

In order to make this in the most efficient way possible, you want to make the pizza sauce and the chili simultaneously as they both need time to simmer.

Pizza Sauce

Below are the ingredients we used for our pizza sauce. You could opt for a jar of pizza sauce instead, but we recommend going all-out and making a tasty sauce yourself. The flavours will be 10x better. (And c’mon, store-bought pizza sauce? You can do better.)

14 oz diced tomatoes

14 oz pureed tomatoes

1 small white onion, chopped

2 cloves of garlic, minced

1 tsp oregano

Fresh basil leaves

Salt and pepper to taste

Olive oil

Tomato paste (optional)

Start by heating some olive oil in a pan. Sweat down your chopped onion until it’s translucent and add your minced garlic at the end — cook it briefly before adding in your diced and pureed tomatoes. Now, it’s your pizza sauce, so you can add whatever spices you like (besides salt and pepper — add those at the very end). For example, you can add red pepper flakes or sugar to season to your taste. We opted for a simple sauce with just basil and oregano. Since we had a bit of tomato paste leftover in a tube, we used the remainder of what we had.

🍅 Mediocre Tip: Tomato paste can add quick concentrated-tomato flavour to any sauce. If you don’t have any, then you're going to want to simmer your sauce for a bare minimum of an hour in order to develop the flavours properly.

Simmer your sauce for at least 45 minutes. At the end give it a taste and add salt and pepper as needed. Don’t forget to take out your basil leaves! (Pro tip: Use a spoon to fish it out — don’t use your fingers and fumble it all over the floor like Trevor did.)