Recipes

[LizzieInSRQ]

Slum Gullion!

[SaveTheTurtles]

There's a good goulash recipe in the old Better Homes & Gardens cook book. I always used round steak, stewed tomatoes, mushrooms onion sour cream and served over egg noodles. It was very tasty, haven't made it in a really long time. Forgot about it til now.😊

[Enufstuff]

@Rockycoast  In my family and most people I know who grew up north of Boston, have always made American Chop Suey.

Kids love it. Our recipe is much like the one posted, except we use canned Italian tomatoes and no green peppers. I also add a can of Huntt's tomato sauce to mine.

[Zhills]

More Goulash ideas!

• Add shredded sharp cheddar cheese to the top of each bowl for a mac and cheese meets spaghetti flavor.
  
  
• Stir in sour cream at the end of the cooking time to make creamy goulash.
  
  
• Stir in shredded mozzarella cheese and garnish with diced pepperoni, or your favorite pizza toppings, for a pizza spin. Don’t forget a dusting of parmesan cheese!
  
  
• Sneak some veggies into your American goulash by adding a cup or two of frozen riced cauliflower when browning the ground beef.
  
  
• Or add 8 ounces of minced fresh mushrooms when browning the ground beef.
  
  
• Add shredded cheddar cheese, chili powder, and a can of black beans or kidney beans to the pot to turn it into Chili Mac.
  
  
• Use Italian Sausage instead of beef for an Italian-inspired spin!

It's still Goulash!

[KathyM23]

@LizzieInSRQ   That is what my mother called it too.  Slum Gullion.  

The recipes on this post sound more like what we called Johnny Marzetti.

What Mom called Goulash had noodles and beef but I don't remember it being ground beef - more like a shredded roast and gravy

[Rockycoast]

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@KathyM23 wrote:

@LizzieInSRQ   That is what my mother called it too.  Slum Gullion.  

The recipes on this post sound more like what we called Johnny Marzetti.

What Mom called Goulash had noodles and beef but I don't remember it being ground beef - more like a shredded roast and gravy

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I love hearing the different regional names for the dishes!   What we called Johnny Marzetti had many more ingredients than American Chopped Suey. stroganoff noodles, mushrooms, stuffed olives, tomato soup, etc.  

[wagirl]

I love a good goulash--I put red kidney beans in mine, no peppers tho-- and put cheddar cheese along with the other  usual  items. Sometimes instead of ground beef, I use italian suasage. Haven't made it in years as DD can't do the cheese---and what is goulash without cheese--well....in my world anyway

[Knit-Chick]

@tends2dogs thanks for posting - brought back memories of my mom making her version which was very simple.  She just browned ground meet and added stewed tomatoes and cooked egg noodles.  Lots of salt and pepper.  It was so good and comforting.  I think I'll make some soon.  Thank you again

[Hoovermom]

My DM would brown hamburger meat, onions and cut up potatoes and let it cook for hours....the potatoes got soft and somewhat mushed.....delicious...still make it sometimes for a walk down memory lane.  We called it goulash.

[lynnie61]

@KathyM23   OMG, Johnny Marzetti was a knockoff of lasagna in our high school cafeteria going back to the 70's. I ate it every time they had it, but my sister thought it was their worst meal made in the cafeteria.  I've never heard a dish called that since then. I thought it was a dish that the cafeteria ladies made up that name.  Some laughs for sure.