Quick, Look Up the Ingredients List! We're Having What Guy Fieri Just Made

Guy Fieri

I turned on the Food Network this afternoon while I scarfed down my lunch. And in about 20 minutes – catching the tail end of Guy’s Big Bite and the beginning of Paula Deen’s Sweet Sensations – I had a plan for supper and for a meal one other night this week.

Fieri turned us on to a great recipe for what he called goulash. It’s nothing like my grandmother’s goulash. But it was fantastic and had just the right amount of heat.

His recipe – Guid’s Goulash for Zlotowitz – called for four pounds of meat. That’s way too much for us, so I halved the recipe. Turned out fantastic. This was truly last minute, so I didn’t attempt the grilled polenta that he whipped up. Instead I opted for rotini.

We’ll make Paula’s recipe – Maple-Glazed Pork Chops – sometime this week. I had everything on hand for this already except the chops.

Cannot wait to try this. We’ll even serve it with sweet potatoes, maybe not her version, but for sure one the kids will eat.

I know they’d eat the cupcakes they made on that episode. The TV dinner cupcakes are super cute. [There’s no photo on the show’s recipe page, but you can see them in the book, Hello Cupcake, and from others who’ve made them, like Erica at Favorite Family Recipes.

UPDATE: The pork chops were so so. The syrup was just too sweet, even though I really like the idea of a sweet and savory combo. We usually do that with pork by adding a little brown sugar to the spice rub. Even my sweet-toothed daughter didn’t like the syrup on her chops.