Hosts Bridget Lancaster and Julia Collin Davison make a Minnesota favorite Tater Tot Hotdish. Toni Tipton-Martin talks about the first printed hotdish recipe and a fun Congressional competition. Equipment expert Adam Ried reviews corn strippers, and Christie Morrison makes Buckeye Candies from the Recipe Box. Ashley Moore makes Bridget Wisconsin Butter Burgers.
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"Tot-tastic"! Lol I love to see the obvious rapport between Julia and Bridget, the laughter and bantering is cool. Just love it. You've made cooking and baking fun. Ive learnt so much about cooking. The variety of recipes are immense. I particularly enjoy learning the traditional American recipes like Tater Tot Hotdish! Please do share more recipes. Thankyou , you've made cooking so much fun and informative!
Great hello from Sydney Australia
Am I the only one who see a tray of baklava instead of tater tots 😂
Born and raised in Michigan, and I like this alot!! Sometimes I add cheese as well😊
Peas and corn – no.
Sorry to say it, but my family unanimously, unconditionally, hated this. We all ate some, and then everyone look at each other and laughed because nobody wanted to say it. It was awful and we threw it all away. I followed the recipe precisely – not my first rodeo with an ATK recipe. The amount of parmesan was overwhelming and blew out the other flavors. I knew it was a lot of parm when I was grating it, but I figured you know what you are doing, and if I don't add the right amount of cheese, the sauce won't be thick enough. The taste was just too unpleasant, and dousing it in ketchup did not even help. The tots sank into the liquid, making leaving them soggy and falling apart – not crispy at all. I have been using your recipes for years. I used your first cookbook to learn how to cook a couple of decades ago. Unfortunately, this was just terrible.
STOPPP. YOU HAD ME AT TATER 🥔 TOTS AND BUTTER! (what was shown in the YouTube thumbnail). I live in Wisconsin where Culver's restaurant is famous for its butter burgers. But of course those cost money! So being able to DIY at home is a great thing. Same for the casserole. And ANYTHING with tater tots is 💯 in my book! 👍
I love these two together. Being from the Midwest, I've made this love this for a quick family meal. My mom would say one of your Just Because Meals. Love this, Now I have a name for it. Hot dish.
That looks really rich and delicious.
It's a super fancified hot dish.
Hot dishes were supposed to feed a big family on the cheap.
A can of ceeam of mushroom soup, cans of vegetables, and a bag of tater tots. Add Govt cheese if you have some.
Dump and bake.
Glad she toasted the buns
Okay, I didn't grow up in the Midwest, and I am 47 years old. Don't wants, until I came across this video recently, have I ever heard tater tot casserole referred to as hotdish. That seems like an incredibly Bland, generic name, it doesn't mean a damn thing to anyone who has never heard the term before. Isn't everything you take out of the oven, or pulled off the stove top, a hot dish? If this is truly the name that this recipe has been going by four decades in the Midwest, then someone seriously needs to come up with a new and better name for it.
Brigette a woman after my heart that loves tater tots.
Native Ohioan here.. I don't think I've ever had this before but I gotta make it now. I think our popular casserole is green bean with the fried onions on top
I need a mushroom substitute.
I made this last night and I will not use can Cream of Mushroom soup again!! It was delish!!
yummy
Go Wisconsin! Got to try and make the burger! Missed the Cheese Head State! 🤣😋
Your little introduction to "hot dishes" was just wrong. Any Minnesotan would tell you that you can have a hot dish that doesn't have tater tots or potato chips on top. Seriously do your research! Our hot dishes have much more variety than that!
The burger looks so good. ❤❤❤
Oh my that has to be real comfort food. Love your extra touches. 🇨🇦
These Butter Burgers!!!!! OMG! I have to make these!!!!
get a room, you two.
The Dirt Muffins ruin the Tater Tot casserole. Yuck.
I'm from Ohio and this is not a real dish
ARGH! If you're going to say "one onion" give an actual measure of size or weight. A bag of yellow onions may have them all around 4oz each, but getting them individually they may get up closer to a pound. Pretty sure that's a variable that's going to make a LOT of difference.
Yikes. That was a lot of butter but looked good. I don't think Culver's uses that much.
Ew
A corn stripper sounds like a naughty girl from Iowa
I'm from Sweden and Im interested in American food! But what the heck is tater tots? I need to find something similar in my country to put on top! Cheers 😊
I was born and raised in Ohio, and as soon as I saw the card come up that you were going to be making Buckeyes, I was super excited! I have never made them myself because my sister-in-law usually makes them. I thought they were probably pretty involved but watching your recipe, I see they really aren't! Thanks!
tater tot hotdish looks like british slop food!
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I live in the midwest, and neither of these are a favorite where I live.
Casserole and hot dish are not the same….. Just saying….. One is layered….. One is not…. That detail changes flavors……. Especially if you're just doing everything in one pot without layer cooking and the ingredients…..
OMG. The tatter tot hot dish is to die for. I admit I was skeptical. I used ground turkey instead of beef. It was to die for. I've never had such tender ground meat before. THANK YOU for a delicious, easy new recipe that will star in my rotation.
Tater tot casserole
In the corn stripper segment, I'm surprised you guys didn't compare with the "Please Reply Worldwide Ultra Any Chef's Knife".
The butter on the butter burger seems kinda redundant since it melts and runs off the burger. Surely there's a better way where the butter stays mostly on the burger. Anyone else think this or is it just me? 🤔🤷
Thank you!
That has Karen written all over it… yuck
Clicked just for the comments. Knew they’d be heated
At our Minnesota family reunions there were hot dishes and cold dishes. Hot dishes (some call them casseroles) were some sort of baked offering (hot). Others would bring a cold dish like potato salad or macaroni salad. To us the casserole was the pan/dish you served from.
So. What became of our competition winner. I have not seen her in the vids.
I love the calm feel of these videos. Such a nice break from all the modern hyperhysterical stuff❤️
Tater Tot casserole. Yum. We used cream of celery soup. I love your recipe.
What are tater tots? The hotdish looks yum….