It’s been a few years since we’ve seen this A&J from 1993. Have you ever noticed how many of those quickie casserole recipes on Facebook include potatoes, cheese, ham or bacon, corn, sour cream and a variable ingredient or two? Of course they’ll be good! Most of the Kickstarter rewards that were scheduled for delivery in October have been sent. The T shirts did not go out until Monday, the last day of the month, so if you’re expecting a T, it might not have arrived yet. It should soon. However! The original sketches have not gone out yet. They will be sent by this time next week. I apologize for the delay; I’m sure you won’t have much trouble speculating about its cause.
173 responses to “It’s French for ‘gooey!’”
Jackie, were were in Utica, NY over the weekend and I am late passing on one of my favourite ways of dealing with slow-cooker beef: my Hungarian Goulash.
Hungarian Goulash (Slow cooker)
2 lb. Stewing beef
1 cup Diced onions
28 oz. Can diced tomatoes
½ cup Water or stock
1 medium Diced green pepper (seeds and membranes removed)
2-3 medium Diced potatoes (about 1½ lb.)
1 tbs. flour
3 tbs. Sweet paprika
2 tsp. Garlic powder
1 tsp. Salt
¼ tsp. Ground black pepper
Brown meat and deglaze pan. Sauté onions until transparent. Add everything to crock pot, bring to boil (on high) for at least 1 hour. Simmer on low for 4-6 hours.
Pompeii with 89 females had over 500 births and over 400 deaths sounds weirdly odd, kind of like the numbers of murders in Midsummer exceeding number of residents.
Llee lives in Carthage, MO which I asked about. Hal is capitalizing now, not me.
Have been to Carthage, Texas. Not sure about others.
Add Carthage, Illinois and Mississippi to one’s I have been to.
Back from the game in Jordan-Hare Stadium, Auburn, AL. Tough win but a “W” is a “W”! It was military appreciation day. Many real heroes present. God bless them all!
God bless us every one. God bless the USA.
Pompeii, MI not even a cross road, something ain’t right?
Google map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pompeii,+MI/@43.1850812,-84.6041655,1658m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x88225d5e1d1e5081:0x2b2a04036ef98b61!8m2!3d43.1845004!4d-84.6006483
Jackie, that sounds like some pretty good advice Llee has. You don’t need to commit to everything right now; you can take one step, then decide when and if you want to take another. It sounds like a great idea to do some household prep work ahead of time, too, as you are doing. You are one smart and capable lady!
Gary, thank you for that delicious-sounding recipe; I’ve never made goulash before, but I will now!
Gary, do you coat the beef with the 1 tbs. flour before browning?
Did I miss the goulash recipe? Have to go back. I love goulash.
The Ghostly roast is cooking away, as is the mushrooms tavern roast. The drunken stew gets more ingredients in morning and got turned off but it is so tender it is falling apart. I cooked it on stove. .
We had a 5.3 earthquake tonight and a friend on Puget Sound had to tell me. I blamed the neighbors.
I am starting to get hungry.
Gary I will make goulash with next chunk of beef out of freezer. They are all cheap cuts if anything can be called cheap today!
Sounds like a good recipe. I was looking at paprika tonight and thinking goulash.
To prove we did eat casseroles in south, I located the recipe for first one I remember eating, courtesy of my aunt from Fresno, California. It is called California Casserole on Cooks.com and I tried to copy it here. It is pretty identical to what we cooked for years since it was about only one we knew!
She also made a delicious dessert called Fresno Pudding which of course was a raisin pudding. I found it online and began making it again until I discovered it had about a thousand calories per serving of fat and sugar.
emb & Jackie: Mayhap the births mentioned are given as a rate rather than as an absolute number. That is, maybe the births occur at the rate of 534 per 10,000 persons. If so, then, for 174 people, there’d be about 9 births per year. That number is reasonable, albeit not a perfectly integral number.
Good morning Villagers…
I am procrastinating on going into work…..the ‘kill’ team is there today and tomorrow.
So much to do in ‘shutting’ down an egg laying building….still work to be done.
later……
Smigz, the flour is to thicken to sauce a bit. I don’t coat the beef before browning. I like to get a lot of brown residue in the pan and deglaze it to add to the sauce. Lots of flavour in that deglaze.
This Saturday, Jackie? Ummmm there is a beautiful exhibit at one of the local galleries, variety of mediums. (My niece and I saw it last Saturday- we both were actually feeling good enough to leave the house!) Also, there is a weekly sing (& sometimes potluck) at Red Oak II. Not a lot of stuff- everyone’s resting up from month of Maple Leaf Festival. And getting ready for Christmas, I suppose.
Rest up. Dig in the garden. Breathe.
And have a few bites of that delicious sounding food for me! 🙂
Got up and putting roasts in containers and fridge to finish cooling. My gosh, there is a lot of shrink! And juices. But meat is tender. If workmen show up today they get rice, corn muffins and the drunken vegetable beef. After I go buy some parsnips and butter nut squash to add.
Perhaps I will stay home Llee but if I come I will bring dinner! Going to put the pork roast in crock pot. The liners kept everything clean until I spilled gravy boxing it up.
Checking in with Gene and his family makes my heart feel at peace. I love these people, Jimmy.
Gary, thank you for clarifying the goulash method for me. That’s very helpful. Anyone have a beef stroganoff recipe they would like to share?
Missing Jerry (who popped in for a moment), Galliglo, Charlotte, Ghost, and several other long-standing contributors. Some recent or returned folks, too. Some posted often, some occasionally; all were a part of this Village of souls Jimmy has created. I wish you all very well.
Debbe, I can’t imagine what you are going through must feel like. You once posted this. I’m reposting on the chance that someone may need it:
” Important List:
. The most destructive habit. Worry
. The greatest joy. Giving
. The greatest loss. Loss of Self-Respect
. The most satisfying work. Helping Others
. The ugliest personality trait. Selfishness
. The most endangered species. Dedicated Leaders
. Our greatest natural resource. Our Youth
. The greatest ‘shot in the arm’. Encouragement
. The greatest problem to overcome. Fear
. The most effective sleeping pill. Peace of Mind
. The most crippling failure disease. Excuses
. The most powerful force in life. Love
. The most dangerous pariah. A Gossiper
. The world’s most incredible computer. The Brain
. The worst thing to be without. Hope
. The deadliest weapon. The Tongue
. The two most power-filled words. ‘I Can’
. The greatest asset. Faith
. The most worthless emotion. Self Pity
. The most beautiful attire. A Smile
. The most prized possession. Integrity
. The most powerful channel of communication. Prayer
. The most contagious spirit. Enthusiasm
. The most important thing in life. God”
What Smigz said. All of it.
I have a long held theory that people participate in sites ike this in times of need. When that need ends they leave either because things got better or worse.
What they don’t think of is that others become fond of them and care or may still need their contributions. We seldom hear the end of the story whether happy or sad and are left guessing.
Silly idea isn’t it? A cartoon evoking such emotions?
Wonderful idea. Opportunities for civil community are good things. BUMC’s adult forum just finished a difficult but insightful book mostly about this, ‘The active life’, by Parker Palmer, an anti-violence Quaker, good speaker, and delightful person. Don’t know him well, but have encountered him at a few conferences. May have mentioned him before.
Peace,
What Smigz said, and also what Jackie said. There are a couple of comics that tackle serious enough issues at times that I find myself getting upset if things are bad and have to REMIND myself that they’re not “real” people!
Re clocks and DST: We just counted 12 clocks around our house that would have to be re-set if we had to do that–but we live in Arizona and stay on God’s time all year around.
Nancy Arizona and my Granny. She refused to move clocks ahead or backward, said it was man and the devil who did that! Clocks were always the same on the farm and we’d be trying to remember which way to adjust to get to “real time”.
My best frIends grandfather pastored the largest AME church in New Orleans and embarrassed her terribly by delivering a sermon on the devil and daylight saving time.
All time is God’s, no? Peace,
Obviously one of the life-changing events in my life was my Mom’s fatal car accident. So many things that she did not finish or that was in the middle of, made me, after a sufficient time of mourning, really work and trying to do more things in my life.
But it often made me wonder, what if someone had to walk into my life and “pick up the pieces?” Would they discover the things that I said here at A&J.com? Would they find clues about my life that would better understand me? Trust me, I spend little time thinking about it. Just live life to it’s fullest.
Then again there have been people that have written here and then picked up their toys and gone home. That’s OK, I already went through High School once.
Steve you are of course right. Sometimes when people vanish abruptly, even from something like an online forum or blog like this, we assume the worse as we may know they have been ill. But then they may just have dropped out for some totally different reason.
Personally I wish people would say folks I am dropping out and have other interests. That way we don’t worry that they are passed as we say in south.
Jackie, we are flying to Toronto tomorrow. Possibility staying for an extended time, but should not affect blogging.