# Tim Walz' "Hot Dish" (tricked-up Tater Tot Casserole) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [October 4, 2024, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-walz-hot-dish-tricked-up-tater-tot-casserole/1008461 "2024-10-04T22:58:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-walz-hot-dish-tricked-up-tater-tot-casserole/1008461/1 "2024-10-04T22:58:35Z")
Gosh, I’m familiar with this dish having just THREE ingredients: hamburger, cream soup (preferably mushroom) and of course Tater Tots. I’m sure it can be made with infinite variations, including this one. > **[Governor Tim Walz's "Turkey Trot Tater Tot Hotdish" — Cookin' with Congress](https://www.cookinwithcongress.com/cookin-with-congress-recipes/timwalzhotdish)** > > Governor Tim Walz is now Kamala Harris's running mate, and boy does he think he can cook. I put it to the test with his hotdish recipe, which is a Minnesota casserole classic. Thick, dense, hearty -- a Midwestern beauty from the new Vice... ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-walz-hot-dish-tricked-up-tater-tot-casserole/1008461/2 "2024-10-04T23:06:01Z")
I used to make a version of it many years ago when I had young kids. My ex was from MN, so we made her mother’s version of it. I don’t recall what all went into it other than the ground beef, cream soup, green beans and the tots, but it’s been about 40+ years since I made it, so I beg forgiveness. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-walz-hot-dish-tricked-up-tater-tot-casserole/1008461/3 "2024-10-04T23:10:03Z")
Very, very Midwestern. Almost unknown in the South. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-walz-hot-dish-tricked-up-tater-tot-casserole/1008461/4 "2024-10-04T23:19:56Z")
As a lifelong Midwesterner, there was a couple at my old church who had been in the military (or he had, at least) and when they were fairly new to town, we had a potluck, and she said she knew she had to be back in the Midwest when they recognized everything on the buffet line. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-walz-hot-dish-tricked-up-tater-tot-casserole/1008461/5 "2024-10-04T23:21:46Z")
Existing thread; > [@Vice-Presidential culinary question: What is "hotdish" in Minnesota?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vice-presidential-culinary-question-what-is-hotdish-in-minnesota/1005398): > > Question re Tim Walz: he apparently won the “Minnesota Congressional Delegation HotDish-off” contest three years running, with his “New Ulm Hotdish”. Please elaborate for a puzzelled Canuck: what is “hotdish”, please? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-walz-hot-dish-tricked-up-tater-tot-casserole/1008461/6 "2024-10-04T23:23:08Z")
I had searched for it, but didn’t whoosh “hotdish” into one word. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-walz-hot-dish-tricked-up-tater-tot-casserole/1008461/7 "2024-10-05T19:23:51Z")
I first heard about hotdish here, years ago. I made it soon after learning about it. It was one of those nights where I lectured about the meal as part of the presentation. When it made the news recently (thanks Tim!) my gf asked me to make it again. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2024, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-walz-hot-dish-tricked-up-tater-tot-casserole/1008461/8 "2024-10-06T02:58:56Z")
Yeah, it needs green beans, specifically French-style green beans. It _so_ much more healthy that way. Eaten with ketchup on the side. Trust me with this recipe, I live in the congressional district that Tim Walz represented. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2024, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-walz-hot-dish-tricked-up-tater-tot-casserole/1008461/9 "2024-10-06T03:03:13Z")
Oh, that dish just depresses me in any of its forms. Sill won’t make me vote for Trump, though.