But it was fun to see what people’s guesses were.
And a lot of the comments, while not identifying something actually “wrong,” did make good suggestions for a better written version.
Sounds ghastly. I’d rather have lutefisk and lefse.
Not me! I’d eat the hot dish, and if I were hungry enough I might even find it sort of tasty, for a few mouthfuls anyway.
I grew up eating that sort of food at least intermittently. I attended various Protestant church suppers on a regular basis (my favorite being an annual potluck gathering to watch The Wizard of Oz - kinda nice that a church would do that).
And perhaps more importantly, my mother was born and raised in Iowa, part of a family of German extraction, and she was always looking for ways to feed the family on a budget. So her cooking tended toward the hot dish end of the spectrum (though she was health-conscious enough that she was, if not exactly a health food nut, at least ahead of her time in minimizing processed foods and emphasizing vegetables).
Like most people, I retain some affection for the foods of my childhood, even if my palate has mostly moved beyond them.
So do I. I still make my mother’s hamburger and rice hot dish from time to time, along with tuna noodle hot dish. But I’ll pass on Timmy’s glop.
Yeah, at least trump and vance never lied to me about recipes!
Well, unless we’re talking recipes for dog or cat…
Huh, i saw a different recipe, that used ground turkey and had a lot more detail. I wonder if i can find it again…
That would be the governor’s turkey taco hotdish. Beware - it contains two entire teaspoons of chili powder AND a 4 oz. can of mild green chiles, which by Minnesotan standards might be dangerously spicy.
Here it is. And i see I’ve been ninja’d. It’s a much more complicated recipe, uses a lot of spices and is mostly less processed ingredients.
Oh, not really a ninja. I think the taco recipe is different from this one. I guess he likes to cook.
Jeez. You just add some extra, not the original 1 cup. That is just normal for a recipe.
Exactly.
So, there’s nothing wrong with the recipe at all.
This is the “hot dish” recipe I originally saw. Of course, it could be altered in infinite ways, to make it gluten-free, vegetarian, lactose-free, etc. The tater tot casserole I grew up with, and have made many times, had THREE ingredients: hamburger, cream soup (preferably mushroom), and Tater Tots.
Goodness. You don’t measure that cheese. That would be like measuring the parmesan cheese you put on your spaghetti.
The problem I see is this man clearly eats well.
But, I do not see him doing much more than grilling and maybe cooking pancakes on Sunday morning.
Doesn’t put on a chef type vibe. At all.
In the turkey recipe he has you measure out 3 cups of cheese, mix 2.5 into the body if the dish, and sprinkle the other half cup on top.
And wow, reading that recipe, there’s a LOT of butterfat in it, between the butter, milk, half& half, and cheese.
They need more calories in Minnesota to combat the cold.
Yeah, I believe that one🤔.
That’s no accident. He’s gonna Make America Grate Again.
Insert stock footage of elderly women applauding from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”.
He’s as appealing as a potato kluska.
But you should put it in the ingredient list: “Extra cheese for topping” or something like that.
No it isn’t - not for recipes that are written properly. Well written recipes mention “salt and pepper to taste” or “extra basil for garnish” or whatever, as one of the ingredients.
My cite: CairoCarol, who wrote recipes for a news magazine for a couple of years.
I bow to your recipe experience.