Great recipes, I will try them all, especially the cream of Parisian soup! Do stores near you sell Dijonaise? I haven’t seen that for 10 or so years but I loved it.I like your version of the baked sandwich, the viral recipe that is so popular tends to be so greasy. Here in Massachusetts we had American chop suey, which can be a bit of an acquired taste for some, here is my mom’s recipe: America Chop Suey 2 cups uncooked macaroni 1 pound ground beef 1 yellow onion, chopped 1/2 of a green bell pepper chopped (optional) 1/2 tsp seasoned salt Pinch red pepper flakes 1/2 tsp celery seed 1 28-ounce can diced tomatoes 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste Cook the the pasta as per the directions on the box. Brown the beef, drain it. Back in the day my mom would add in a bit of cooking oil but I find even after draining today’s ground beef is still a bit fatty so I don’t need it but you can if you like) Add and sauté the onions and green pepper for a 3-4 minutes. Add the tomatoes, celery seed, a dash of crushed red pepper flakes, Worcestershire sauce and seasoned salt and stir to combine. Simmer for 5 minutes. Drain the pasta, reserving a half cup of the pasta cooking water. Mix the pasta in with the meat sauce and add the parsley and cook for another 5 minutes, being sure to add in some of the pasta water if it looks too dry. Add salt and pepper to taste.
@@mmoretti Unfortunately Hellman's Dijonaise was discontinued in 2020. I didn't even realize that because I usually just mix up my own! I have seen a couple of smaller (possibly regional?) brands selling something similar.
@@xxNinjaclanxx-id9rs Hi there! I don't have kids, so not sure if I'm the right person to answer this question. I can tell you that some of the meals are a little more spicy than other depending on the ingredients. Lots of 'sneaky' vegetables (zucchini noodles, mashed cauliflower, etc) which I enjoy!
As a mom I loved sneaky vegetables to my phase of veggie hating, daughter. I’d finely grate carrots into tuna salad, as well as other veggies into pasta sauce among other things.
I laughed about the velveeta. Back in the 70s I made stovetop mac & cheese with velveeta. Easy peasy, hot macaroni, butter and as much velveeta as you liked stirred together. Because we were getting older and more health conscious I stopped buying velveeta in the mid-90s, about 5 or so years ago my husband (out of blue) said, "Do you remember that good macaroni and cheese you used to make when we were first married? I'd like to have some of that again sometime." So we've come full circle, now when you open my refrigerator there is always a yellow box on the middle shelf, just like it was so many decades ago. 😁
As I was reading the comments about the Dijon mustard, I remembered a commercial from the 70's. "Pardon me sir, but would you happen to have some Grey Poupon?" 😂
Childhood foods never need to be accompanied by an apology. Mom made magic on a teeny budget using ingredients that were inexpensive or handy. Oh, and you said it so nicely...you blot your ham...LOL I dry it!
Hello, I just wanted to let you know that I love your videos, you don't come across as pretentious or snobby, you don't waste food, and you are open to the fact that recipes are a guide, they don't have to be followed exactly. Thank you and keep up the good work 😊😊
My family had slumgullion too! But ours was different, it was ground beef, onions, and green peppers sautéed in a brown gravy and served over mashed potatoes. I don't remember my mom putting macaroni or tomatoes in it! But she did put macaroni in our chili!
My grandmother will have been been gone for 30 years next month, and I can still, to this day, perfectly recall the aroma of goulash on her stove. Thanks for stirring that memory up!
You made me think about our family stand-by dinners. Sloppy Joes, meatloaf and crockpot vegetable soup all made very regular appearances. I sure didn’t adequately appreciate someone else cooking for me!
Johnny Marzetti. That's what it was called for school lunches when I was in school in the 60s and 70s. My mom, when she made it, we just called it casserole and that's what I call it to this day. 😊
I use egg noodles for my Johnny Marzetti. And my mother used to make goulash with elbow macaroni and added peas and carrots. I love dishes that don’t have recipes per se but prepared according to your own tastes. Thoroughly enjoy your channel and the old recipes you cook up
We ate these during the 70s and 80s but called them Fun Buns with ham and swiss and for the dressing- mustard, butter, chopped onion and Worcestershire sauce. So yummy!
In HS back in the early 70’s we had a snack bar that had ham and cheese on a sub bun. They were frozen and in a plastic bag that would not burn when heated up. They would come out of the bag steamy from being frozen and with chili Fritos and milk it was heaven! Valveeta was king back then especially making Mac and cheese! No channel brings back memories like yours! Thank you!!
I have a Tupperware container for when I get me some Velveeta cheese. A person I know gets a box of free food, (it's what stores would toss so it's all good but, hey if they get fresh people pick over the stuff that's out dated in a few months) knowing she isn't going to eat it we try but sometimes it goes bad before we can finish it, next time I'm cutting it in half to share with others. That's my cheese story.
My mother called it tallerine. It was Mexican-spiced and had corn in it. Love your channel! I just made your French cheese sandwich again for my husband this morning. He loves it.
That veggie soup is so smart! There are always veggie tray leftovers and they can start to look sad if they hang around in the fridge for too long long! Looks delicious 😋
I am so homesick for my northeast Ohio childhood right now! My mom made all of these things, or variations of them. She did the ham and cheese baked sandwiches but would also make them with tuna salad and American cheese for a tuna melt bun. And I got so excited when I saw Johnny Marzetti in the thumbnail. Mom called it goulash but at school it was Johnny Marzetti. About once a year on a chilly day, I make a pan for myself and my husband. (He also grew up in northeast Ohio.) What a delicious reminder of growing up in Ohio, thank you so much. ❤❤❤ And I have a veggie tray in the fridge that WILL become soup this week!
I grew up in Akron and moved to SFL while still in HS. My family did all of these recipes, too. Even though we called it goulash, the Johnny Marzetti was familiar, thanks for reminding me why.
I grew up in the North Hill part of Akron and as an adult lived in Cuyahoga Falls and Stow. Boyfriend grew up in Parma and Strongsville. We moved to Sarasota Florida in 2011. Miss Marc’s, Giant Eagle, Luigi’s pizza. Small world.
Mom's goulash I don't think had spices. Was one big can of whole tomatoes add onion and garlic and beef. It was very tomato forward. My version for years did that but added a little chili powder. Now what I mostly make takes 20 minutes, has one can of tomato sauce, pound of beef, onion and garlic powders, no chopping, and what brings it all together to make it possible is better than bouillon beef broth and you just put the shells right in there uncooked. The broth makes it so delicious. And it's my quickest recipe. It originally called for cheese, but I discovered I liked it better without so I could taste that beef broth.
My mom made Johnny Marzetti, all the time growing up. She said they served it at lunch in the schools in Ohio. We loved it. We were just talking about Johnny Marzetti the other day!
The Jonny Marzetti reminds me of something my grandma made that we named blarghambler. Chopped onions and ground meat (turkey or beef, whatever was in the freezer and/or on sale), a bag of frozen vegetables (the mixed corn, carrot, green beans and peas one was common, but sometimes it was limabeans or spinach-again, what was on sale, what’s in the freezer) and a can of diced tomatoes, all stewed together in a skillet and served on cooked rice, pasta or grits. If we were going to a potluck, it would get layered into a casserole dish with either cheese or buttered cracker crumbs on top and baked for a bit to look fancy. In its not fancy form, it could easily stretched to feed however many folks showed up for dinner or set aside for lunch the next day. I particularly liked it served on fried mush (leftover grits, sliced and fried the next day) but then I was the weird kid.
We had this kind of goulash at our house _a lot_, but ours wasn’t nearly as flavorful as yours and didn’t have the cheese or baking step usually. I loved when we had it, but yours looks much yummier! Hooray! This is great! 🙂✨
My grandma's church used to sell bags of frozen ham, salami, and cheese sandwiches. They put banana peppers on them. I remember toasting them in the oven, so good!
The “American Chop Suey” I grew up with and that we ate at least twice a month consisted of chopped onions, ground beef, canned tomatoes and condensed tomato soup mixed with spaghetti. Johnny Marzetti had the addition of the green peppers and mushrooms with the cheeses and was baked. Goulash was Hungarian Goulash made with stew beef, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, paprika and a bouquet garni that was baked low and slow in the oven and served over egg noodles. All these dishes are still favorites in my home, with the absence of the green peppers in the Marzetti because my beloved husband does not like any green vegetables. In fact, I think that’s going to be dinner tonight. Today’s selections all looked delicious and I wish my hubby ate veggies because that soup looked to die for! Thanks for another great video, Anna.
At dinner time tonight, I wasn’t terribly hungry, but I knew I needed to eat something, so I turned to one of my childhood favorites: Deviled Ham and mayo sandwich. For some strange reason, I thought of you with every bite. 😄 I’m down to my last slice of processed cheese. It goes on my shopping list as sliced cheese. But after you reminisced about Velveeta sliced cheese, I followed my own tastebud’s memories, and realized that Velveeta’s were special, so I made that distinction on my updated/edited list.
I remember eating Johnny Marzetti when i was kid growing up . 1975 baby here. I made this for my children when they were little, and now i make it for my grand babies. What a great video! Thank you for sharing! 😊
Velveeta and peanut butter on a bread like sourdough slices is one of my childhood favorites. I don’t think you could get the slices back then, we cut our slices from the big log that comes on the box and we would cut them thick. Delicious!
Sweet video. I bet your mom is happy that there are things she made when you were growing up that are comforting to you even now. It's the greatest way to compliment her. ❤
Going to have to make the soup. It looked delicious. I also press off the liquid from the meat. I find it slimy otherwise lol. I grew up with “goulash ” my mom always used cans of tomato soup and no mushrooms. When I’d make it for my kids instead of two tins of tomato soup I’d use one tomato and one cream of mushroom. Kids loved it, lol. It’s a very comforting dish for sure. Always nice to take a step back into our childhood.
When you made the soup it reminded me of my mom's potato soup. She added any left over veggies and meat if we had it. I grew up in Southern CA and vegetables were abundant. I remember topping everything with avocado 😅. My sister in law was from PA and made goulash at least once a week. I had the best of both worlds. Now we're retired in Texas. What a change. Lots of BBQ and fried pickles 👍❤️
The hot ham and cheese takes me back to my childhood as well, we would visit my grandmother and her town had this old drug store who use to make hot ham and cheese they too would use the bun with mayo no mustard and they would smash it flat. I always looked forward to those Saturdays of going to visit and going to get those ham and cheese sandwiches... I will have to give it a try with the mustard since I have not tried that before. I will also be giving that soup a try as well that looked amazing..
When I was a kid in Pennsylvania, Hardees used to sell hot ham ’n cheese sandwiches on a sesame seed bun and they were so freaking good. I always wondered how they made them so good, my mom used to microwave the ham but it wasn’t as good. They must have baked them like you do here. Gonna try it! Love your channel.
While I (from Southern IN) had eaten similar soup as a kid it didn't really feature in our house... but we definitely had Goulash (Johnny Marzetti) and Hot Ham and Cheese weekly. The ham and cheese was a favorite at our county fair, where the 4-H had a food stand and these were our #1 sellers after vanilla cokes.
In my neck of the woods ( Missouri), we would have just called a cheesy baked goulash, or a pasta bake. Whatever you want to call, it is so good!. Thank you for the video.
Goulash was very common at childhood potlucks. I make mine with a pound each of pasta, ground bison or beef, and mozzarella, which I grate. Add tomato sauce, a giant onion, and plenty of Italian seasoning. A great budget dish
As a fellow Ohioan, I remember calling the dish Johnny Marzetti by it's full name at school but at home it was shortened to just Marzetti. I love it to this day! :)
Johnny Marzetti was often on the school lunch menu! My sisters and I looked forward to "Johnny Marzetti Day". That was in the 70's through 91. I'm from western PA.
Johnny Marzetti! I’ve actually searched for a recipe and didn’t find anything. I grew up in Ohio too. I didn’t like green pepper as a child so I wouldn’t eat it. But I want to try again as an adult. Thanks for this!
Friends of ours called it earthworms and snake meat lol. The first time our children heard it they didn’t want to eat it. Then it became a go to meal at our house.
We had ground turkey in the 80's I'm not sure about the 70's. I didn't pay as much attention to what we were eating until the early 80's when I went on a health kick that was more like a modified vegetarian kick. For a few months I refused to eat any meat because it made me nauseous and sometimes outright sick. But I had a hard time and wasn't getting enough protein so I added poultry back in. My mom would make us turkey burgers and we would have turkey tacos. After a couple years I stopped having problems with red meat making me ill so I didn't stay on that diet. However ground turkey is still my favorite protein for tacos.
Yes - blot the ham/luncheon meat. I roll mine up and squeeze. We did "cream of the fridge" soup all the time. Like your name better. Your Jonny Marzetti we called American Chop Suey. After getting married I made it for my husband. He had never heard of it and thought I made the name up. Ha, ha. That's what it's called in New England area.
I couldn't believe how big American chop suey was when I moved to New England. I had never had it. It was on the menu at diners, even. I had only had goulash. :).
I'm from Maine and my mom made chop suey all the time. I miss her version, I'd add more spice, but I'd give anything to be able to have her make it today. She was a stay at home mom and cooked everyday nothing was packaged, all homemade. We usually some kind of cookie or sweet every week. She made all of our birthday cakes from scratch. I fondly remember her homemade eclairs, cream puffs and molasses cookies. I wasn't a fan of baked beans but ate them. I can't find that molasses cookie recipe and have a hard time finding one like it.
Anna, I think we grew up with the same family meals. But Dijon mustard was not heard of in our house, we used French's yellow mustard that came in those cute little jars. I'm going to make your soup. Currently I make a creamy potato-ham soup with onion, celery and garlic (using milk not cream) but your recipe has better use of healthy veggies. Thanks for presenting these great throw back meals.
The one dish you made Johnny Marzetti’s, we would have called that goulash in Wisconsin. I’ve heard it called American Chop Suey out east. I love Slumgullion, but the way I make it is with a pound of ground beef, a can of Veg-All, a can of cream of mushroom soup and you mix that and add a package of cooked egg noodles. We use milk to thin the sauce and we bake that. Sometimes I switch out the beef with ground chicken and switch the cream of mushroom soup for cream of chicken.
Bought some Boar’s Head ham early last week. I was REALLY looking forward to my “grilled ham & cheese” for an easy Sunday dinner. (It’s just me, so 🤷🏼♀️). Yesterday, I realized I was running low on my sourdough bread and “Seriously Sharp Cheddar” by Cabot creamery-2 of my essential ingredients. Understand, I am mainly a vegetarian. I just get occasional cravings…southern fried chicken, Shrimp scampi, Chinese Sausage, Pork loin roast, grilled ham & cheese..etc. a few hours ago, I was in the kitchen getting everything ready…my best friend called, “I know this is probably nothing, but (hubby) and I saw this big alert, know you rarely, but sometimes get deli ham for your sandwiches ..there’s a huge RECALL for Boars Head deli ham; some folks have gotten extremely ill, including a few who didn’t make it. With you being in renal (kidney) failure, we wanted to make sure you knew!” I’m not very religious; but thank God for best friends who seem to be able to read your mind. I checked, my ham is on the list. As a retired healthcare professional and researcher, the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes is NOT something ANYONE wants to risk, nevermind those of us with compromised immune systems. My friends don’t eat pork at all because of their faith-but they’ve been trying to convince me that it’s just better to avoid. I may consider it now….EXCEPT my Chinese Sausage…😂 I only get it once a year and eat it on special occasions-usually when my girls are here because they also get cravings for the unique taste. But…yea, I think that’s it for deli ham… 😔. NOW…I think I’ll make me some 1970’s “poor man’s pizza” instead of my grilled ham & cheese! 😁
I have made the same ham vegetable soup, but I use peas, mushrooms and onion as well as a little grated manchego cheese and a slpash of savignon blanc wine. The "soup base" is a little thick, like the start of your soup in this video. I serve this over some penne or rotini pasta and top with grated manchego cheese.
This was a very fun video, so many memories! I used to go to Timko's for their brunch with my family. The Betty's Salad was SO delicious with it's sweet dressing. My mom called the last dish slumgullion, so maybe it's a west side/east side Ohio thing? 😉 I remember those sandwiches from so many events in the 80's. I think they used the sweet Hawaiian rolls. Have a great week, glad you are on the mend!
This reminds me of ham boats. Use a hot dog bun. Dice the ham cheese and some green onions. Mix with mayo and mustard if you want but this way it incorporates everything in and amongst itself. Bake the same way. I'm craving these so bad. That a olives and cream cheese dip! Yum I mostly loved the 80's food! ❤
The thing I most remember our family using Velveeta for is Holy Moly Dip--ground beef, Rotel, and Velveeta. We have it at every holiday and family gathering. I spice it up now by adding a pack of taco seasoning to the meat or doing half ground beef half chorizo. My Nana also made a baked pasta dish like this but it never had a name as far as I know. She put black olives in it instead of mushrooms, and my dad *hated* it lmao.
I loved the soup section! ROFL!! That was so much fun to watch! "Calm down in there!" We had the Johnny Marzetti but it never really had a name, just was known as tomatoes and hamburger. I really enjoyed this video, it's neat to share those memories!
My mother made those ham and cheese sandwiches only she had fresh leftover ham. Never anything from the deli. She used yellow mustard mixded with mayo and added poppy seeds and minced fresh onion. Swiss cheese. Only used Kaiser buns.
Those ham and cheese toasted sandwiches used leftover ham from Sunday dinner. Looked forward to these more than the big family ham dinner. Added pickle spears
According to my mother my grandmother, her MIL, invented Johnny Marzetti when she worked a restaurant back in the day. Not saying it's true but just an interesting family story.
Per Wikipedia: Johnny Marzetti originated in Columbus, Ohio, at Marzetti's, an Italian restaurant established in 1896 at Woodruff Avenue and High Street by an Italian immigrant named Teresa Marzetti.[3][4] One of the dishes Marzetti offered her customers was a baked casserole of ground beef, cheese, tomato sauce, and noodles that she named for her brother-in-law, Johnny.[5] Teresa Marzetti was the first person to serve the casserole Johnny Marzetti in a restaurant. Does that timeline fit the family legend?
You were talking about if you were vegan, my mother made a meatless version of goulash sometimes because she liked it a lot. So it was just the canned tomatoes or whatever tomatoes you wanted to use and noodles, garlic. Of course these days you would want to add some herbs. What is fresh tasting and savory like that.
I love your videos because they often remind me of my childhood meals. My Mum often made Hot Hawaiian Rolls as an easy meal, and I make it now for myself and my family! A roll with mayonnaise, ham, cheese slice (yes has to be processed 😅) and a pineapple slice between the ham and cheese. Then wrapped in foil and baked in the oven for 20 minutes. Yummy!! 🎉
I remember being served the third dish as a child. My mom called it "goulash". I thought that was a nonsensical name that conveyed no information (which is odd, since I was usually an imaginative child and normally appreciated such things), so I dubbed it "Maca-s'ghetti", since it was basically spaghetti with macaroni noodles.
You might be amused to imagine the moment when I got really confused - and a little creeped out - to spot a "cookbook" called In Cold Blood on your shelf, wondering what on earth you're into cooking when you're alone in the kitchen, and then to my great relief quickly spotted Truman Capote right beneath the title. I bet I'm not the only one scanning your shelves and going back and forth between your video and on-line book sources, because if it's worthy of space on Anna's shelf it's got to be a winner!! Thanks for the new video.
Oh this is hilarious! 😂 I keep most of my cookbook collection in my office, but haven’t been filming my cookbook chats in there lately. The shelves in the background of this video are in our ‘library’ (just a small open sitting room we chose to fill with shelves!), so it’s a mix of cookbooks and novels.
Oh yesss ghoulash was on a weekly rotation. We didn’t use any veggies, only meat sauce. On the side was a garden salad with ranch dressing and sometimes Italian bread from the store bakery slathered in butter. Nothing fancy growing up and only salt & pepper. No fancy herbs or spices 😂
If you can get a used copy of the Mirro All Purpose cook book it has a recipe called "Johnny Mazetti" on page 217. It has cubed pork shoulder instead of ground beef, and a can of tomato soup in place of tomatoes or tomato sauce. It has most of the other ingredients in your "Johnny Marzetti". The cookbook I have says "copy right 1954". It was from the Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Company of Manitowoc, Wisconsin. This book was a favorite of my mother's who got married in 1954. It has a lot of good recipes and makes an interesting time capsule for younger cooks. I always enjoy your videos, Anna.
I am a child of the 50’s and my mom used Velveta in Mac and cheese…delish!! And always with that was fried apples as a side. Love your channel and content!
Did your mom have a favourite cookbook growing up? I remember my mom watching a lot of cooking shows and she would write the recipes down, or clipping recipes out of the newspaper every week, and putting them in or her own “cookbook” (binder). If my house was on fire, and I only had time to grab one thing before I left, it would be that book. ❤️📒
My mom clipped a lot of recipes out of magazines, newspapers, product packaging, etc. and saved them. The cookbook I remember the most from growing up was Betty Crocker's Cooky Book. Not exactly a great one for dinner ideas, but it sure was fun to look through!
I like that you added cheddar to that Johnny marzetti. I add cheddar to my spaghetti meat sauce. I have not tried mushrooms in my goulash, but I always put mushrooms in my spaghetti. I'm sure I would like that.
Every time you play that tune during your tastings, I stop what I'm doing and do a "reverence," which is the curtsy one does at the conclusion of ballet class. Our piano player always played that tune, and i took ballet from age 6-12, so that tune is firmly stuck in my brain, lol. Love all your content-speedy recovery from your surgery!!!❤
When you said Johnny Marzetti I was catapulted back to my childhood! My mom's parents were from Cincinnati so I assume that's where Mom learned the recipe. I might try it with lentils instead of meat. Thank you for wonderful comfort dishes to enjoy! (I made last week's Corn and Broccoli Bake and loved every bite.)
Mac bake we called Goulash, that soup without cauliflower and add Velveeta was our comfort soup. Broccoli cheese soup and yes I put carrots in it. My adult child still asks me for it. My grandkids love those ham and cheese sandwiches and they are so convenient when kidscare coming and goingvat different times because of work or activities. We are on the New England coast but still very similar .🎉
A little nutmeg would be good in that soup. That's much fancier than our version which was a can of mixed vegetables and ham and white sauce over toast. And you could even just do the vegetables and the white sauce over toast. I know that all tastes better than most people think it would.
My Grandma's goulash always stopped at the skillet stage when I was over. Seeing it as a casserole makes sense though, knowing how old the recipe is. And Velveeta... wow. My mom was really snobby about her cheese so Velveeta was banned from the house, EXCEPT for this one dish of baked cauliflower with a Velveeta, mustard and something else sauce over it. It was the only time I got my ex to eat cauliflower. I should try to find that one again.
