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.
Growing up, Johnny Marzetti night was two nights after Sloppy Joe's lol I was in college before I learned my mom was just repurposing leftovers...(also, I was in college at OSU because I grew up in Grove City. Love seeing fellow Ohioans out and about on the internet!)
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?" 😂
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!
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!! 🎉
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.
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!
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 😂
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!
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.
I finally made the Jonny Marzetti for dinner tonight. I have never made it before. It was very easy recipe to make and made generous servings. It was delicious - and I will definitely make it again. Thank you for the recipe.
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
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!!!❤
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. 😊
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 😊😊
Thank you for creating an urge to rediscover my many collected cook books. Several from the 40s and 50s. It’s a pleased watching your enjoy of discovering not only the recipes, but the illustrations etc
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!
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.
The soup reminded me of my sisters working in a deli about 40 years ago. One always brought odd scraps of cheese, vegetables, and heels home and threw in her crockpot. A cashier around the corner from her apartment was worried because she mostly just bought beer, apple juice, and crackers every few days 😂. Two meals were free at work, and supper was usually soup, pasta salad, or a quiche.
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!
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.
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!
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. ❤
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!!
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.
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! :)
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.
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 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! 😊
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 👍❤️
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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..
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! 🙂✨
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.
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!
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
My mom would make similar sandwiches for family reunions (on dinner rolls and not baked). It was hilarious when my uncle on my dad’s side of the family made a comment that he hated mustard while scarfing down sandwiches with a mayo/mustard spread… just blended together.
I feel this way often, but this may be one of my FAVORITE videos you’ve made! I’m a sucker for nostalgia and paying tribute to the magic our moms created! (We had a terribly violent childhood thanks to dad…but mom kept us fed and feeling loved!) I will say as a vegan, I can make any of the recipes I see; there’s just endless options available. There’s a vegan provolone cheese that melts insanely well, that would go great with the sandwich. The soup looked soooo yummy, as a potato 🥔 lover, I would be adding potatoes too! And I think I’m going to make the baked pasta dish today since I have some cauliflower, mushrooms, and peppers I need to use. Thank you, Anna, for being the BEST part of RUclips! ♥️
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.
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.
I’m Swedish and we have a very good cheese culture here, but when I was a kid my grandpa would make me sandwiches with processed cheese all the time. So it has a special place in my heart and it is a favorite of mine
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.
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 .🎉
The Johnny Marzetti recipe I had, came to me in a newspaper in Pittsburgh 3 decades ago, after I moved into my first apartment. A one bedroom basement apartment I called the "Al Cave." In my memory, that Johnny Marzetti seemed a little different from yours, but it still was an oven baked pasta dish that was one of my early first time successes for a young guy novice cook. I hadn't thought about in years, though I know I still have it among my saved recipe clippings. Seeing you do it brought back so many memories, more than 30 years agone from my youth and a world long since vanished. Thanks Anna. It was a pleasure to be reminded of it after so many years, while seeing you make this. 😊
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!
We often had turkey and noodles, goulash, casseroles, sliced potatoes with ground beef with onions & vegetables in it with a side of ketchup, creamy tuna noodle casserole, tater tot hot dish, pot pies, we also tried fondue in 1979, also chinese takeout was one very popular one for our family, etc
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.
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!
Thank you for this video. I homeschool my kids and those sandwiches look like just the right thing to have ready for lunches. The soup looks great. My mom always made hamburger helper for supper....like 2-3 times a week. Yours looks much better.
Love all three recipes. We used to make the sandwiches and the goulash. My mom would make toasted tuna sandwiches wrapped in foil that gives the the same feelings. Thanks for sharing!
THANKS♥️FOR SHARING THE AMAZINGLY-AWESOME RECIPES & VIDEOS! I REALLY ENJOY YOUR CONTENT & LOVE YOUR VINTAGE COOKBOOKS,DISHES, COOKWARE,ECT… ME&MY HUSBAND WERE BOTH BORN IN-1981. ALL OF MY FAMILY ARE NATIVE TO GEORGIA &ALL OF MY HUBBY’S FAMILY ARE NATIVE TO:PENNSYLVANIA. HE WAS BORN&LIVED IN PA. UNTIL AGE:6. I WAS BORN IN GEORGIA. WE BOTH WERE RAISED IN & STILL LIVE IN GEORGIA. RECIPES/MEALS THAT HE ATE GROWING UP ARE ALOT DIFFERENT THAN WHAT RECIPES/MEALS THAT I ATE GROWING UP. I LOVE THE VARIETY OF MEALS THAT I’VE EATEN FROM MY FAMILY& HIS FAMILY.👍🏻🇺🇸😉
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.
Use code COOKINGBOOKS50 to get 50% OFF your first Factor box plus 20% off your next month of orders at bit.ly/4aIcuUp
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.
Anna, are any of the factor meals "kid" friendly in your opinion? TIA 😊
@@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.
Growing up, Johnny Marzetti night was two nights after Sloppy Joe's lol I was in college before I learned my mom was just repurposing leftovers...(also, I was in college at OSU because I grew up in Grove City. Love seeing fellow Ohioans out and about on the internet!)
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. 😁
I would be like "heck ya, let's make some"
I still do
We used to press Velveeta into crunchy celery sticks. What a treat. Loved that as a kid. Such a sophisticated pre dinner appetizer. 😂
My husband prefers Velveeta to any other “real” cheese. It does have its place in our home, lol.
@@chestyvulva no I haven't had Velveeta tacos, but I bet my husband would love them!
Velveeta is life.
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?" 😂
I recall it from the 80's.
Loved that commercial!
"But of course!" I recall it from the 80's too, made dijon mustard seem so fancy!
Also the fact that it came in a glass jar made it seem fancier.
That commercial was popular in 80's when I was growing up & I believe even into the early 90's! 😅
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!
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!! 🎉
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.
I loved those Hardee’s sandwiches too! 😋
The Burger King Yumbo back in the 70s was the best.
I will not stand for processed cheese slander! It’s GOOD!
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!
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 😂
Made the hot sandwich for dinner, did not disappoint!
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!
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.
Manchego’s my favorite! Thanks for this variation, keeping it to try later.
Being from NC, Duke's Mayonnaise is the only mayonnaise we acknowledge here.
💯💯💯
I finally made the Jonny Marzetti for dinner tonight. I have never made it before. It was very easy recipe to make and made generous servings. It was delicious - and I will definitely make it again. Thank you for the recipe.
So glad you enjoyed it!
OMGosh!! This threw me back to being a little girl in the the late 70's, early 80's! Thank you Anna for your nostalgia!! 😊
You must be about my age. I am 51.
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
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!!!❤
We called it Johnny Rosetta
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. 😊
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 😊😊
Thank you!! This is nice to hear. ❤
Hot ham and cheese day was the best day at school as far as I'm concerned!
so good! 😋
OMG! These dishes threw me back to being a little girl in the late 70's, early 80's!! Thank you Anna for your wonderful nostalgia!!! 😊
Thank you for creating an urge to rediscover my many collected cook books. Several from the 40s and 50s. It’s a pleased watching your enjoy of discovering not only the recipes, but the illustrations etc
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!
Those hot foil wrapped sandwiches are a hit in my house! I’ve been having them since I was a kid, and introduced them to my roomies.
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.
The soup reminded me of my sisters working in a deli about 40 years ago. One always brought odd scraps of cheese, vegetables, and heels home and threw in her crockpot. A cashier around the corner from her apartment was worried because she mostly just bought beer, apple juice, and crackers every few days 😂. Two meals were free at work, and supper was usually soup, pasta salad, or a quiche.
When I first saw the thumbnail, I read "1880's dinner ideas". I thought wow, she's really getting into the "vintage" thing now! LOL!
Oh my gosh! 😂I haven't made it back that far yet!
😂
😂😂
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!
Crockpot vegetable soup was a big one in our household too! 😁
It was in my house too.
So Easy. When did we decide Easy was bad.
Mushrooms in goulash? Never have but I'm going to now! I loved this video-brought back nice memories. Thanks 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.
Slumgullion! I always use that term and my kids thought I was crazy 😂 but that’s what my grandma called it. So nice to know others know that word!
We used to call it 'goulash'
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!
@melissagarr4907 macaroni and chili is good though. 😊
MY PEOPLE!!! My Gram called it slumgullion and no one else ever knew what I was talking about till I made it.
Slovak here
Hope you are feeling better, Anna! I love that you shared a bit of your childhood with us! Thank you ❤
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. ❤
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!!
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.
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! :)
The ham and cheese wld be fire with some pineapple too!
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.
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 😋
We used to eat at Marzetti’s when we visited my grandparents in Columbus.
I think every 70s and 80s family has a version of this. Ours used Hawaiian rolls, swiss cheese, and ham.
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! 😊
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 👍❤️
Mid-70's! I'm jealous...it's 108 where I am today! The soup looks delicous!
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.
The tallerine sounds delicious, thanks for the idea!
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.
Oh I remember the Velveeta Keeper well! I don't know remember eating Velveeta often but it seems like we had it in the house from time to time.
I know this is a random comment but I’ve been watching you forever now and I’m so glad to see your channel growing!
Thank you so much for sticking with me! ❤
I would love to see more dinners from your childhood! Great video
Very nice child hood memories. Even when we were young the best memories can be around the table in the kitchen
Anna, it's great to see you looking so good ❤ Sending abundant love and healing energy for you ❤❤❤❤
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.
@@cindytrayer4279 at least in Sarasota you still get Strickland's.😁
@@yvonnepalmquist8676 sadly it’s permanently closed
@@cindytrayer4279 Oh, I had heard, but hoped it was only temporary during Covid. That's depressing.
I loved Johnny Marzetti as a kid! It was such a common meal it even made an appearance on our school lunch menus in Southern Ohio.
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!
I absolutely love mushrooms too!! 🍄🟫 🍄
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!
Anna. You’re a real blessing on this RUclips platform. And thank God Meijers survived our childhood, it’s so cool to find the same brands.
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..
I love velveeta, especially on grilled cheese
Simple and wholesome, we all need more of both! Thanks for sharing
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! 🙂✨
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video. ❤
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.
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!
As a 70's child, I loved my local hospital goulash from the vending machines.
@@cocoaorange1 Goulash... from a vending machine? That sounds wild!
@@cocoaorange1I remember cigarettes in the hospital vending machines, but not goulash!
I was born in 81 and I remember my mom making goulash ALL THE TIME 😂. I wasn't a fan back then but now, I love it
My mom and grandma didn’t make goulash. But I do it is one of my 26 year old sons favorites.
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
People make fun of Velveeta, but it has been around for a looong time. There must be a reason. Creamy, smooth, good stuff.
My mom would make similar sandwiches for family reunions (on dinner rolls and not baked). It was hilarious when my uncle on my dad’s side of the family made a comment that he hated mustard while scarfing down sandwiches with a mayo/mustard spread… just blended together.
I feel this way often, but this may be one of my FAVORITE videos you’ve made! I’m a sucker for nostalgia and paying tribute to the magic our moms created! (We had a terribly violent childhood thanks to dad…but mom kept us fed and feeling loved!)
I will say as a vegan, I can make any of the recipes I see; there’s just endless options available. There’s a vegan provolone cheese that melts insanely well, that would go great with the sandwich. The soup looked soooo yummy, as a potato 🥔 lover, I would be adding potatoes too! And I think I’m going to make the baked pasta dish today since I have some cauliflower, mushrooms, and peppers I need to use. Thank you, Anna, for being the BEST part of RUclips! ♥️
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.
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.
I’m Swedish and we have a very good cheese culture here, but when I was a kid my grandpa would make me sandwiches with processed cheese all the time. So it has a special place in my heart and it is a favorite of mine
My mom made goulash on the stove.
I always enjoy your videos! This one, too!
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.
My family makes these all the time definitely a family favorite
That soup would be fantastic with cheese too!
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 .🎉
I've never heard of the last two dishes, but they sound interesting. Deff something to try in the autumn and winter months. 🍁⛄️
The Johnny Marzetti recipe I had, came to me in a newspaper in Pittsburgh 3 decades ago, after I moved into my first apartment. A one bedroom basement apartment I called the "Al Cave." In my memory, that Johnny Marzetti seemed a little different from yours, but it still was an oven baked pasta dish that was one of my early first time successes for a young guy novice cook. I hadn't thought about in years, though I know I still have it among my saved recipe clippings. Seeing you do it brought back so many memories, more than 30 years agone from my youth and a world long since vanished. Thanks Anna. It was a pleasure to be reminded of it after so many years, while seeing you make this. 😊
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!
I’ve made the gulosh with half ground beef and half lentils. Stretches the budget and adds fiber. Chili beans are good too. Fun throw back recipes.❤
Thank you! Close to recipes I would make in 1980's for my family. No written recipes.
We often had turkey and noodles, goulash, casseroles, sliced potatoes with ground beef with onions & vegetables in it with a side of ketchup, creamy tuna noodle casserole, tater tot hot dish, pot pies, we also tried fondue in 1979, also chinese takeout was one very popular one for our family, etc
Sourdough pancakes, belgian waffles, stuffed potatoes, KFC, Mexican restaurants, omelettes, French toast, corned beef hash with eggs, liverwurst on toast, cinnamon toast, salmon, BLTs, BBQs, grilled cheese with ketchup, cold sandwiches with chips, rice-a-roni, beef stroganoff, Swedish meatballs, salisbury steaks, pimiento cheese sandwiches, also tried fondue in 1979 .............
I grew up on goulash too. To this day mom makes it for her grandkids and great grandkids and everyone loves it!
We called it goulash growing up in Michigan but i've heard it called slumgullion as well!
My family from Western PA have a 'Johnny Marzetti' dish too, very similar recipe, and we just call it 'macaroni bake'. Delicious!
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.
I went to school with a boy named Johnny Marzetti! 😂 (we call that dish, goulash where I grew up)
We call it goulash where I’m from too
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.
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!
Thank you for this video. I homeschool my kids and those sandwiches look like just the right thing to have ready for lunches. The soup looks great. My mom always made hamburger helper for supper....like 2-3 times a week. Yours looks much better.
Yes those ham sandwiches are great! I do a similar one slider-sized for parties, game night, always a huge hit.
Love all three recipes. We used to make the sandwiches and the goulash. My mom would make toasted tuna sandwiches wrapped in foil that gives the the same feelings. Thanks for sharing!
These sound amazing. I want to try the soup and add some mushrooms!! Thank you!
THANKS♥️FOR SHARING THE AMAZINGLY-AWESOME RECIPES & VIDEOS! I REALLY ENJOY YOUR CONTENT & LOVE YOUR VINTAGE COOKBOOKS,DISHES,
COOKWARE,ECT… ME&MY HUSBAND WERE BOTH BORN IN-1981. ALL OF MY FAMILY ARE NATIVE TO GEORGIA &ALL OF MY HUBBY’S FAMILY ARE NATIVE TO:PENNSYLVANIA. HE WAS BORN&LIVED IN PA. UNTIL AGE:6. I WAS BORN IN GEORGIA. WE BOTH WERE RAISED IN & STILL LIVE IN GEORGIA. RECIPES/MEALS THAT HE ATE GROWING UP ARE ALOT DIFFERENT THAN WHAT RECIPES/MEALS THAT I ATE GROWING UP. I LOVE THE VARIETY OF MEALS THAT I’VE EATEN FROM MY FAMILY& HIS FAMILY.👍🏻🇺🇸😉
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.
Interestingly Glen and Friends old cookbook show did a recipe like Johnny Marzetti called Italian Macaroni from the 1880s.
Really love the apron, such a nice pattern!