KiwiBloke

Thanks for the two posts and yes please add the variations to the recipes when you get hold of the recipe book you mention.

When looking for a good recipe, I visited one Austrian website and one definitely does not want to use the amount of hot paprika in a recipe listed. The rest was fine, but the amount of paprika really was ridiculous. So people beware!

A problem with many American website recipes for Goulash is often they resemble European Goulash only in using the same name for the dish. Often using mincemeat, and more Mexican in style than anything Hungarian.

I may have mentioned this above but I remember attending a hunting festival in the Czech Republic at Hulaboka (I think?) and one of the events between the eleven countries represented in competitions, was a goulash cooking and judging competition. Did not get to try any of them unfortunately.