Tater Tot Casserole. In the style of Dixie.

Phatchris

SGH said:

@Phatchris
I did a little farther research into your question above. I have a friend who works for DOW/Corning and I gave him a call. The answer was somewhat compound, but here goes. New Pyrex Cooking Grade Glass is rated for 950 degrees of indirect heat with no flame impingement. As glass ages, it suffers from "glass fatigue". Thus, with time and use, the rating drops substantially. With that said, if you have a real old Pyrex dish that was your mothers or grandmothers (heir loom), I would limit the temp to normal cooking temps. They make different grades of glass that are rated for even higher temps. But new Pyrex cookware across the board is rated to 950 degrees of indirect heat. Their ceramic cookware gets up into the 1,000's. Hope this helps my friend. 

Thanks for the very detailed answer as always much appreciated.

Cashfan

I just finished a large plate of this dish. It was the best tater tot hot dish I've ever had!!!

Many Thanks for the Recipe!!!!

SGH

Cashfan said:

I just finished a large plate of this dish. It was the best tater tot hot dish I've ever had!!!

Many Thanks for the Recipe!!!!

Glad to hear that you enjoyed it my friend. 

LetsEat

@SGH by chance did you spend a piece of time with the Church Ladies at St.John's in northern Illinois?  They were widely known for their "Funeral Casserole" which I can attest was might delicious.  While I was never  privy to their recipe, your Dixie Tater Tot Casserole looks very similar to the funeral luncheon entree of my memories  

Thank you for sharing this old standard. I made it for my family last week and  to quote one if my children, "Where has this been all my life?"

SGH

LetsEat said:

@SGH by chance did you spend a piece of time with the Church Ladies at St.John's in northern Illinois?  They were widely known for their "Funeral Casserole" 

Brother, believe this or not, but I got the original recipe/method from a mans wife. His name was Don Bornphl (I may have spelled that wrong). It was pronounced "Barn Pole" but not spelled that way. They lived in Washington county Illinois. I met them up there working years ago. As such, there is a good chance that is where she got the original recipe from. I tweaked it and gave it that southern flair that Dixie is so famous for though. I'm willing to bet that the recipe that you speak of is they got it from. To big of a coincidence in my book. 

Lit

One of the posts on your best appetizer thread just spread it in a pan then I read this and thought maybe combine the two cooks with the bottom layer of the casserole being the pork instead of beef. May give it a go this weekend.

SGH

@Lit
The tater to casserole doesn't work great with the sausage. It's way to much grease and the tots come out like greasy sponges. It tastes great, just far to soggy and greasy my friend. 

Lit

Well that sucks. Beef it is then. 

SGH

Lit said:

Well that sucks. Beef it is then. 

You can over cook the sausage a little and it works pretty good. However that kind of defeats the purpose. Hey, give it a try, it's real good, just "greasy" as heck. When my stomach is feeling good I will eat it grease and all. But I did want to warn you it is greasy brother. 

nolaegghead

my tater-tot is the size of a tater-tot!

nolaegghead

troll troll troll....

Scottie, I can't believe you're wasting perfectly good fat! 

SGH

nolaegghead said:

troll troll troll....

If you keep trolling my post, I'm going to summon the buffalo

Roadpuke0

Ok going to make a run at this see if it meets the hype! Let ya know in about an hour.

Roadpuke0

Ya sorry not a fan. Sound so good though. Must be my northern standards throwing this off for me. Just seemed to be missing something for my palate. Keep the reciepes coming I enjoy try them.

Biggreenpharmacist

I'm gonna try to come up with a sub for cream of mushroom. Me and my boys aren't big fans of a cream style base. Hate stroganoff and thats first thing I thought of when reading the ingredients. I may try with a "chili" base and see how that works out. 

SGH

Roadpuke0 said:

Ya sorry not a fan. Sound so good though. Must be my northern standards throwing this off for me. Just seemed to be missing something for my palate. Keep the reciepes coming I enjoy try them.

Sorry to hear that you didn't care for it my friend. Hey, that's the way it goes though. We don't all have the same tastes and preferences. 

KiterTodd

Nobody has posted any sliced pictures of this Dixie creation. 
What does it look like plated?

SGH

KiterTodd said:

Nobody has posted any sliced pictures of this Dixie creation. 
What does it look like plated?

A big cheesy mess

jls9595

Dang good stuff. I added some mushrooms and some tomatoes at the end with the parmesan.

Phatchris

Kinda surprised there is no cayenne... Trying it today for the game.

bhedges1987

If I wasn't back on low carb I would be all over this thing.

Biggreenpharmacist

Im going back to low carb after the superbowl. 

Biggreenpharmacist

Im going with two renditions of this today. One will be the original and the other I'm gonna use a ground bacon/venison chili base cuz boys wont eat cream of anything. 

johnmitchell

Biggreenpharmacist said:

Im going back to low carb after the superbowl. 

I was planning the same, but I am going to push it out till 4th July..

Biggreenpharmacist

I cant wait that long. My lovely wife is having another baby in april and as of now i think my belly is bigger than hers and both my kids have baseball season coming up. I gotta lose some weight and start exercising again. Wanna be down about 165-170 by the time my newest little boy arrives at end of april. 

Biggreenpharmacist

Heres my attempt

thetrim

Your tots are quite as orderly and disciplined asSGHs are!

johnmitchell

@Biggreenpharmacist  Wow.. Flippen awesome....

SGH

thetrim said:

Your tots are quite as orderly and disciplined asSGHs are!

Someone once told me that I was a perfectionist. However that same person also told me that I was a a$$hole. With that said, does that make me a perfect a$$hole

Biggreenpharmacist

My boys crushed that chili cheese tater tot casserole. I like it, too, but I've eaten nearly half of the original recipe one as well.