American Goulash (comfort food)
Ingredients:
1 Onion
1# Ground Turkey, Beef, Chicken or?
1 15oz can of diced tomatoes
1 15oz can of tomato sauce
Salt & Pepper to taste before serving.
8 oz of pasta shells
(you can buy canned tomatoes and tomato sauces already seasoned)
I buy ground turkey and beef in 3# trays when it's on sale and freeze 1# portions in quart freezer bags.
I use two 2 quart microwave containers.One for the pasta and one for the meat and tomato mixture.
Directions:
Chop your onion as coarse or fine as you like.
Put your ground meat in your microwave container and cook 10 minutes at 50%
Add your diced onion and mix into the meat (you can add garlic or any other spices you want)
Cook the meat for 10 more minutes at 50% and remix again to break it up.
If it looks done,
Add the tomato sauce and diced tomatoes at this time and mix in.
Set aside (you can transfer it to another container if you don't have two microwaveable containers)
Put your 8oz of shells into a 2 qt microwaveable container, cover with water, add a Tablespoon of salt.
Cook for 20 minutes on 50% power. Check at 15 minutes and break up clumps.
Add water if necessary. The water just to cover should by 98% absorbed. If the shells are the doneness you desire, and there's a lot of excess water, you can drain it off.
I then mix the meat and tomato mixture into the shells, put some in a bowl and add a little grated cheese.
This makes about 5 meals for me.
I make what's called Hungarian Goulash. The recipe is very different. Mine goes over noodles and of course you use Hungarian paprika. This sounds good too.
Goulash to this day leaves very bad childhood memories/nightmares. HATE onions. My mom would make goulash with HUGE pieces doubling the quantity of onions. We were not allowed to leave the dinner table until we ate everything on our plate. Can remember being at that table till late evening swallowing those onions with multiple glasses of milk....
Beck
LOL Isn't it funny the memories we have as children that are with us the rest of our lives.
I don’t remember a lot of my childhood, but goulash will haunt me forever.....
mine was the boiled diner....ham, rutabaga carrots and onions.
Here poor Dale was just trying to share a recipe with us and instead he brought out all sorts of traumatic childhood memories....
sorryJonesCarpeDiem for getting off track here..lol
and my childhood memory includes canned peas, congealed in butter, sitting cold as ice on my plate.....................
blech! WHO makes a CHILD eat canned peas???????????????? I will NEVER forgive them for that!
(sorry, JonesCarpeDiem for adding to the angst here on your blog)
I'm not force feeding anyone