![]() ![]() Add garlic, paprika, chili paste, sugar and cinnamon and stir. Add ground beef and sauté another 5 or so minutes, until beef is cooked. Add fajita vegetables and sauté until softened, about 7-8 minutes, stirring frequently. Heat olive oil in a large skillet or pot over medium-high heat.Garnish: Grated Parmesan cheese and freshly-chopped parsley or basil (optional). ![]() 1 teaspoon Gourmet Garden Chili Pepper Paste (or 1/4-1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes).1 tablespoon minced garlic (I used Gourmet Garden Organic Garlic Paste).1 (14-ounce) package fajita mix vegetables (red onion, colored bell peppers).This dish goes by many names - American Chop Suey, Goulash, Johnny Marzetti, Slumgullion, Hamburger 's comfort food whatever you call it. Wherever you’re from and whatever you call it, be sure to set me a place at the table! American Goulash (upstate New York, Pennsylvania).But it also goes by so many other names in the rest of the country, as I discovered when searching around online. This dish, as she explains, was Massachusetts/New Hampshire/Maine/Rhode Island/Connecticut/New Jersey comfort food. There are no bean sprouts, water chestnuts and crunchy noodles to be found instead, this dish is more about the American Melting Pot. What’s so chop suey about ground beef, onions and peppers simmered in stewed tomatoes and spices, over pasta? Just about EVERYTHING, it turns out. ![]() She made American Chopped Suey, and I did a double take. I could go on.īut there’s a new comfort food luring me, and it belongs to Amy over at the blog Fearless Homemaker. As is steaming bread fresh from the oven. Who knows…perhaps it will supplant my own need for eggplant Parmigiana! What’s your comfort food? I’m always willing to try someone else’s comfort food. ![]()
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