Tator Tot [sic] Specialty Casserole is a throwback to a different time, made from ground beef and a bunch of pantry and freezer items. This dish is one of two “Tator Tot” recipes from the 1988 recipe collection Thank Heaven for Home Made Cooks, compiled by St. Casimir Catholic Church in Krakow, Wisconsin. Both are……
Ingredient: condensed cream of mushroom soup
Mushroom Scalloped Potatoes (1949, adapted)
fMushroom Scalloped Potatoes is a dump-and-go potato side dish suitable for Sunday dinner. It’s a labor-saving alternative to more sophisticated sides, and while it lacks the panache of a good pan of scalloped potatoes or funeral potatoes it will still scratch the itch for a creamy, starchy side. The recipe comes to me by way……
Chicken Delicious (Tennessee, 1978)
Chicken Delicious, from the Thorn Grove Baptist Church cookbook, is kind of like the casserole version of the everything bagel. It combines several different elements of 1960s/1970s cuisine into a single dish, and then amps it up to eleven by wrapping everything in bacon and seasoning with MSG. Outside of whatever fungal matter exists in……