Goulash

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is a delicious comfort food from my youth.  Quick to make.  Guilty pleasure,  and only one of three foods acceptable to eat with ketchup.  Call it hamburger macaroni hot dish, burger noodle casserole, what ever.  This is one of the first meals I teach my kids to cook.  This is a staple in our house.  This is not my picture

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is a crappy picture.  Sorry...

This is supposed to be goulash.  The paprika and black pepper laden stewless stew from eastern Europe, invented before refrigeration.  Where the spices hid the decomposing critter flavor.

This one was pulled from a canning book.  I wasn't going to make 8 quarts so I aloquatted, mathed, and eyeballed down to 3 servings.  Pharmacy school was good for something.

Put it this way.  I am sure I have a better recipe in line and I have no qualms about deleting this from my database.  Maybe making 8 quarts at a time helps.

But for now, I am content eating the Comfort Hot Dish and allowing it to be mistakenly known as goulash.

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