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I've only had goulash once. It was at a really nice restaurant about 4 years ago. This is the menu: http://www.cafechianti.com/menus/menu2010.pdf Scroll down to "Gypsy Goulash" under Lunch Specialties. It was SO GOOD! Having that as my only goulash experience, I was kind of surprised to read the answers to that question!

My mom made goulash all the time. And it's just like Marguerite said… it's a hodgepodge of foods put together. Whatever leftovers we had, or whatever the garden was producing we'd put together for dinner. And it was always good. (Except during my major picky stages, but my mom can't be blamed for that.)

To me, it is macaroni, ground beef, spaghetti sauce, canned corn, and maybe some canned mushrooms. My dad made this dish all the time when he was in charge of dinner. It was pretty standardized, but he would sometimes adjust depending on what kind of pasta we had or if there were weird kinds of tomato-y type things in the fridge.

ahem. wrote:To me, it is macaroni, ground beef, spaghetti sauce, canned corn, and maybe some canned mushrooms. My dad made this dish all the time when he was in charge of dinner. It was pretty standardized, but he would sometimes adjust depending on what kind of pasta we had or if there were weird kinds of tomato-y type things in the fridge.

That was called Chuck Wagon Mac at my house and I hated it. (I was picky, I tell you). Except we never had mushrooms in it.

Hm, I'm not sure I've ever described something as "goulash" before. I occasionally throw whatever's on hand into a pot -- vegetables, leftover pizza sauce, pasta, etc., but I like to claim that it's minestrone. Sounds classier that way.

Apparently everyone has a different idea about what "goulash" is. I had it many times in many different countries. But the most common form (at least in Europe) of goulash seems to be the dish NerdGirl had: "European style hot Hungarian beef stewed with tomatoes, sweet peppers and paprika, served with crisp spatzels." My dictionary says:

a Hungarian stew (=thick soup) made from meat and vegetables and hot red pepper.

The Online Etymology Dictionary says

1866, from Hungarian gulyáshús, from gulyás "herdsman" + hús "meat." In Hungarian, "beef or lamb soup made by herdsmen while pasturing."

Anyway, this kind of goulash is really good.

Are we sure she didn't mean.... Goulet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBri1ySwmnk