I was having a beer with a friend last night and we landed on the topic of cooking for families. She tells me about this amazing pizza hot dish she makes. (Hot Dish is Minnesotan for "casserole" for those not in the know)
Silly me asks how she does the crust...that wasn't the right question to ask.
"There's no crust. You use 2 bags of egg noodles, a pound of ground beef, a can of cream of mushroom and a can of broccoli cheese soup, a bunch of pepperoni, and a bunch of cheddar cheese then you....."
I asked her if she was messing with me because that sounded disgusting but she assured me its awesome and there are never any leftovers.
A few drinks later we are talking about boating and the light bulb goes off.
Everyone is always trying to impress with the most amazing chocolate lava cake or perfect cinnamon roles but there really isn't a resource for gut filling mid-western Grandma Mary or Aunt Judy recipes meant to feed an army of hungry hockey players in which the ingredients all come out of a bunch of cans and boxes... except for the tater tots. I didn't know you could do so many things with a bag of tater tots.
Those dishes could pretty much all be a river friendly dutch oven recipe with little or no modifications. It could make for a hilarious river recipe book, especially if there are good stories to go with the recipes.
We've got a good contingent of hot dish aficionados locally but I wanted to mine the collective Mountain Buzz brain for ideas as well. If I can come up with enough worthy recipes it will get made into a book but I think it may make for a fun article or blog post anyway.
Everyone will be fully credited unless they want to maintain their anonymity out of shame :grin: It's not easy for everyone to be proud to admit that they absolutely love eating something with THAT ingredient list instead of your free range kale chips and artisanal hormone free kombucha!
Whaddya got Buzzards?
Silly me asks how she does the crust...that wasn't the right question to ask.
"There's no crust. You use 2 bags of egg noodles, a pound of ground beef, a can of cream of mushroom and a can of broccoli cheese soup, a bunch of pepperoni, and a bunch of cheddar cheese then you....."
I asked her if she was messing with me because that sounded disgusting but she assured me its awesome and there are never any leftovers.
A few drinks later we are talking about boating and the light bulb goes off.
Everyone is always trying to impress with the most amazing chocolate lava cake or perfect cinnamon roles but there really isn't a resource for gut filling mid-western Grandma Mary or Aunt Judy recipes meant to feed an army of hungry hockey players in which the ingredients all come out of a bunch of cans and boxes... except for the tater tots. I didn't know you could do so many things with a bag of tater tots.
Those dishes could pretty much all be a river friendly dutch oven recipe with little or no modifications. It could make for a hilarious river recipe book, especially if there are good stories to go with the recipes.
We've got a good contingent of hot dish aficionados locally but I wanted to mine the collective Mountain Buzz brain for ideas as well. If I can come up with enough worthy recipes it will get made into a book but I think it may make for a fun article or blog post anyway.
Everyone will be fully credited unless they want to maintain their anonymity out of shame :grin: It's not easy for everyone to be proud to admit that they absolutely love eating something with THAT ingredient list instead of your free range kale chips and artisanal hormone free kombucha!
Whaddya got Buzzards?