Now, are you a hotdish whore or will I be one of the select few you cooked it for?

Darin makes a divine totdish-hotdish.

Any cheese in it????!

to be honest, i have no idea what's in it. the tater tots draw me in and then i just go into a nom nom nom trance till i'm sick.

Oh no, I just realized. Will I be making you break your vegan pledge by requesting lots of cheese?

if i were a vegan instead of a vegetarian you would be.

tater tots with cheese!

I had no the hell idea what it was Never heard the term til the puzzle.
And of course, I thought of the kitties.

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I asked the org this very question one time.

I thought everybody called them casseroles. But hot dish is akshully a better name, if you ask me.

i grew up calling them casseroles. i never heard "hot dish" till i moved to minnesota. actually, i think they have both out here, because darin makes the tater tot hot dish, yet he also makes shoepeg corn casserole. i don't know what distinguishes one from the other. i just nod and smile because all i want to do is eat. hell, i'd call the shit "aunt sally" if it gets me a corner piece.

I had a witty reply until I got to "corner piece", which wiped my brain of all other thoughts.

I had a witty reply until I got to "corner piece", which wiped my brain of all other thoughts.

I think you call them "casseroles" in other parts of the US. Hotdish is stictly Minnesotan (I think) and often are served at lutheran church potluck dinners.

Basically it's ground beef, some kind of cream soup and something else all put in a big dish with something crispy on top and then baked in the oven.

Ome of my best friends makes an awesome tater tot hotdish which is cream of mushroom soup, veggie crumbles (faux ground beef) and canned green beans all mixed together, topped with tater tots in a single layer and baked in the oven.

My mom was famous for her chow mein hotdish and my grandma always made pizza hotdish.

This was the solution:

"Minnesota's most popular native food, Hotdish, is constructed on a base of canned cream of mushroom soup and canned vegetables. If you sit down to something that doesn't look like anything you've ever seen before, it's probably Hotdish"



I thought it was cream of mushrooms and veggies only and just imagined you guys surviving on that stuff in the winter But yes, we have casseroles here and I'm glad to know that you can trick out a hotdish instead of just being soup and corn