. And it has to be fairly basic (i.e. no herring) to appease the limited palates I am working with. So far, the list is: - tater tot hotdish - deviled eggs - chex mix - grasshoppers / pink squirrels I don’t want to cop out by...

This must be a Midwestern thing — that’s the only place I know of where tatertots are considered an ingredient (i.e., tatertot hotdish). Not that there’s anything wrong with tatertots.

I never thought I’d be in a “swing” but here we are! If you want to do a MN dish, go for tuna noodle casserole, or another "hotdish" using cooked pasta, browned ground meat, canned cream soup and whatever...

that “little” is just self-deprecatory and it could range from a couple of plates of cookies and coffee to a full-on meal featuring a hotdish and a vegetable.) You could also call it “tea”, but afternoon...

Dick’s Hideaway is quite tasty, as hotdish mentioned. One of my favorites around town is Matt’s Big Breakfast in downtown Phoenix, which doesn’t do much in the way of Southwestern offerings but dishes out darn...

awesome!! thanks mamamia and hotdish!! i’d never neard of either one...and hzp too :D please, more recs!! :)

I just posted this recipe for “Smokey Chipotle Chicken and Quinoa” hotdish in another thread. This recipe just won the "hotdish" recipe for St. Paul’s winter carnival festival. I modified the...

better? It looks very similar from the pix. Link: http://www.hotdishes.com/santacountertop.htm

Potluck in Minnesota means casserole. Casserole and Minnesota to me = wild rice hotdish. The puff pastry empanadas will let the mushrooms shine – and so they should. For something less labor intensive, how about a wild rice...

to college and was confronted with one in the school’s dining hall. Wild rice we did eat in quantity — and there are a number of wild rice hotdishes we made (and yes, we called it "hotdish" not a casserole). They were...

I love this one: Smokey Chipotle Chicken and Quinoa Hotdish. St. Paul had a "hotdish" recipe contest for this year’s winter carnival and this one won. I’ve posted a modication of it (to make it fit weight watchers...

. Still, I liked it. If you were serious, you’d bring your own maple syrup. ;-) ~Chocolate and vanilla shakes (at the Dairy window in the cattle building or whatever it’s called, not in Empire Commons) Fine, nothing special. ~...

are sometimes mediocre, sometimes not – my mother’s tuna noodle hotdish is bland, but it’s far from mediocre. My own tuna noodle hotdish is both bland and mediocre. A local place makes bland chicken pot pies...

there are the hotdishes...oh, so many glorious hotdishes. Best served in the basement of a Lutheran church. Or at Hot Plate – a great diner throwback, but hardly a place for a night on the town, or a group of 40. Other than...

is hotdish made at home. BTW, the ham loaf from Ingebretson’s isn’t half bad!