Help needed Midwestern friends!!!

[Danmel]

I'm making a hot dish for tonight's debate and being a Jewish woman from Brooklyn NY, I've never cooked anything with cream soup and meat and frozen veggies.
Do you add cheese under the tater tots?
Any tips, suggestions welcome! Thanks! Go Coach Tim!!!!

(For the presidential debate, I got Jamaican take out- if there's another, I'll make Indian food.)

[kozar]

1. I always,

Put the cheese on top, bake, and then broil for a few mins, to brown the cheese. Think pizza

[malaise]

14. LOL

Nice😀

[Botany]

2. Simple

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/222037/tater-tots-r-casserole/

You can make your own tater tots too … video @ link … or buy them in the frozen food section.
You can buy shredded cheddar cheese too.
Top with some green onions when it is done.
Use ground round instead of ground beef.

Think of Jewish Latkes.

[Ocelot II]

3. Cheese always goes on top.

[samnsara]

4. theres a site where if you donate to Harris/Walz he will

download you his hot-dish recipe!

just google 'How To Make Tim Walz’s Turkey Trot Tater-Tot Hotdish'


sorry i dont have the link but it sounds mighty good ( carby but good)

[Danmel]

7. That's what inspired me

But I gotta tell you, the idea of brats and cream of celery soup scares me!

[Tetrachloride]

9. it's normal

there’s a lot of salt so add a few fresh or frozen vegetables

[Danmel]

5. Thanks for the tips.

I have made tater tots, lol.
Scallions are a good tip and I happen to have some in the fridge.

[Grolph_]

6. I always thought that Mom's TaterTot Hotdish was the best.

I was wrong.
My wife now makes homemade cream of mushroom soup for the base.
Un-effin' believable.

Sprinkle the cheese on top after the tots get browned.

Coach Tim is just like me, except he smiles.

[Danmel]

8. Do you mix the soup in or put it on the bottom?

[Grolph_]

10. So...

Brown the meat with onions, garlic, salt & pepper. Drain.
Pour meat into the bottom of 9x13.
Pour mushroom soup over browned meat.
Layer on Tots.
Bake 375-400 until tots brown, add cheese, brown cheese.

[Danmel]

11. Thanks!

[Pharlo]

12. There are as many ways to make a tater tot casserole / hot dish as there are people who make it - do it to taste.

For myself, I use hamburger fried with onions and add pepper. Then, I mix a can of cream of mushroom soup and a can of cream of celery soup. I mix a can of corn and and a can of french style green beans (both drained). Place that in the bottom of the casserole dish, put a layer of sliced mild cheddar cheese over this, then top with the tater tots and cook until the tater tots are done. That is how I like it. I know people who vary the veggies they add, the cheese / type they use, etc.

Honestly, the only authentic 'hot dish' is the one you make that you like.

[Danmel]

13. No idea how to post pictures

It looked better than it tasted. Was a bit bland for my taste, but hey Go Coach Tim!!!!

[LeftInTX]

15. Speaking of Jamaican food, they are selling frozen Golden Crust meat turnovers in the grocery stores here.

They were cheap and a bit like Hot Pockets but 1,000,000 times better. The pastry was light and flakey. They are only $1.29, so I don't expect super high quality. I had the jerk chicken. I need to buy more when I'm at the store.

I've never had Jamaican food before, so I don't know how to judge. But the pastry on that frozen turnover was excellent for $1.29