Tonight's Dinner...
Goulash
1 # hamburger
1 medium onion
1 can hunt's spaghetti sauce
1 can corn (drained)
2 cups uncooked elbow macoroni
Brown the hamburger and onions together. In a separate pot, cook the pasta. Drain the hamburger/onion of extra oil. Add the sauce and corn. After the pasta is cooked and drained, add it to the rest of the ingredients. Mix well.
Salt & Pepper to taste.
Add cheese on top of you want.
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So the question is...did it taste good? Sometimes I like tomato soup instead of the canned spaghetti sauce. It adds a bit of sweetness.
Back in the day when the old Italian ladies (of up north fame) would start cooking (what Auntie Verna used to call 'WHOP SLOP") they'd start it on a Saturday night on a low heat. It'd cook till about 1-2 PM on Sunday. Then they'd serve it over gnocchi, spaghetti or polenta...or they'd make lasagna or manicotti or such other Italian delights.
WHOP SLOP...indeed. It was delicious. I think Verna just figured her poor son (Tooter) should be fed only things of Scandanavian flavor...like lefsa, Swedish meatballs, lutfisk, pickled herring and klub.
Anyhow:
Their Italian red sauce was spicy and sweet and chucked full of Italian sausages or gigantic meat-a-balls. They make the most wonderful red sauce often called gravy or spaghetti sauce in the world. They got the sweetness by cooking shredded raw carrots in the sauce. And always lots of parmesan and/or mozzarella cheese and huge chunks of Italian bread dipped in olive oil and/or garlic bread (oven toasted) served with everything. Those Italian ladies of old knew how to serve up pure gustatory pleasures.
And the very best spaghetti and meatballs I ever ate was from "The Knights Of Columbus" in Hibbing. Those Italian ladies made the very best pizza too. And that Jolie-jordan woman makes pretty tasty Italian sauce too. (S)
Gosh I'm chomping at the bits just thinking about it.
Ahh...now I have given you another culinary secret. Do you write these things down? I'm not going to be around forever.
I suppose I should post this info so Libby can look at it also...for her cookbook. Will she ever cook?
XXXMom
I do like the Spaghetti and meatballs from "The Macaroni Grill" and they sell a frozen dinner now. And "Angelo's" in South Saint Paul serves a mighty fine batch of Italian foods. I love what the Italians do with seafood and fish also and clam and white sauce.
Did you use Hungarian paprika in flavoring your goulash dinner?
It did taste good. I melted about 3/4 cup of cheese into it, so that smoothed the taste out. The sauce was a bit tart.
Kevin ate a big plateful and two pieces of toast.
I had my dinner and three leftover meals. It sure does make a lot.
So, I'll have it for lunch today and maybe even dinner.
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