{"id":4050,"date":"2012-02-27T13:26:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T18:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/?p=4050"},"modified":"2012-03-12T17:30:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T22:30:50","slug":"4050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/27\/4050\/","title":{"rendered":"The Duggar’s Tater Tot Casserole"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m participating in Menu Monday at Organizing Junkie<\/a> and Life as a Lofthouse<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

I didn’t blog last week because honestly I have been extremely distracted. It’s all been pretty fun distractions though!! Since Christmas we thought we were going to be planning a long distance short-term work-related move. We were extremely excited because it was to a place we’ve always wanted to go. Then last weekend we thought that it wasn’t going to happen after all, only to find out a few days later that it’s going to happen, just not as soon as we thought. For a planner this was at first, extremely painful. However, after a while I have come to appreciate that it can be fun to just live my life as I live it (playing in the kitchen while making sock puppets and cocktails) and let surprises unfold on their own – and in their own time. I asked my husband not to keep me in the loop about this work move. Only to tell me when it’s a sure thing and it’s time to start packing. Which honestly takes a load off. So now I’m focusing on Wee One #3’s teeny weeny Hello Kitty birthday party next weekend. It’s teeny weeny because she only really has one friend, I mean she is just turning three after all!<\/p>\n

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that my oven died, thankfully my stove stop still works perfectly so I’ve been cooking quite a bit, and working through my ‘no bake’ recipes but I haven’t been doing any baking at all. Le sigh. I love baking. At first we looked into having it fixed, but it’s not much of a savings compared to getting a new one and then we have a new warranty. Anyhoo, it’s Menu Monday so while we pick a new stove here’s yet another stove top menu!<\/p>\n

This Week’s Menu (Feb 27 – March 5)
\n*I mentioned last week, I make two separate dinners most nights because I’ve made some dietary changes and I’m not pushing it on my family. They tend to join in with a healthy May-style breakfast and lunch and I make their faves for dinner. Wee One #2 has started eating ‘dinner like mommy’ though, so that’s something!<\/i><\/p>\n

Monday – Chicken with Rice for the fam, Falafels with Rice for me<\/p>\n

Tuesday – Tacos for the fam, Butternut Squash Soup for me<\/p>\n

Wednesday – Chicken Slovakia for the fam, Vegan Quesadilla for me<\/p>\n

Thursday – Beef Romanoff for the fam, ‘Creamy’ Leek Soup for me<\/p>\n

Friday – Homemade Chicken Fingers and Wedges for the fam, Tofu Nuggets and Salad for me<\/p>\n

Saturday – Stew and Salad for the fam, Black-Eyed Bean and Tomato Broth with homemade crackers for me<\/p>\n

Sunday – Hamburgers and French Fries for the fam, Chick Pea Burgers and Sweet Potato Fries for me
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This week, I will photograph these meals as I make them so I can blog about them and link back to those posts when I mention them in a future Menu Monday, which you know I probably will!<\/p>\n

Today though, since I have no oven and you probably do, I will hit you with this recipe for Tater Tot Casserole so you can make it for me! It’s the ultimate in trashy food (I have a weakness for such things, remember<\/a>?<\/i>) I’m not even going to lie to you (though it would save face if I said something like ‘I don’t remember where I came across this recipe<\/i>‘), this is totally a Duggar Family recipe. Don’t look at me like that! Don’t act like you don’t love that show too! Johanna is my fave little one and I think Jessa is fierce. <3\n\n\"the<\/p>\n

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Casserole:<\/b> from The Duggar’s Favorite Recipes<\/A>
\n*I cut it in half and it’s still enough to feed an army, though it’s so good you might not have any leftovers!<\/i>
\n1 lb ground turkey cooked, seasoned, drained
\n3lb tater tots*
\n1 can cream of mushroom soup
\n1 can evaporated milk
\n1 can cream of chicken soup<\/td>\n		Tater Tots:<\/b> from Macheesmo<\/a>
\n4 Russet potatoes, peeled and chopped
\n1 egg
\n1\/2 Cup milk
\n3 Tablespoons unsalted butter
\n1 Cup all-purpose flour
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Now add the egg, milk and flour or else they will just be mush in the oil. MUSH. The original tater tot recipe coats them in breadcrumbs and I didn’t. I totally will next time though! This is when you heat a pot of oil and toss these babies in. They only need to be in the oil for like 30 seconds. I had my first few in for about 2 minutes and look what happened!!<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Now for the actual casserole part. I just browned the ground turkey (you could use chicken or pork or beef or fake tofu-ish stuff) with a little parsley, garlic and onion though none of those three are technically called for in the recipe, and spread it over the bottom of a casserole dish. Then I put the tater tots on top!<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Then in another bowl, I mixed the evaporated milk with the cream soups and poured it over meat and tater tots in the casserole dish.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Bake at 350F for about an hour and OH MY shit this is amazingly good.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

If my new oven isn’t chosen and delivered by Friday, I’m going to have to bake a Hello Kitty cake at my neighbor’s house. Oh small town living, you come in handy sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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