DaBookLady's Recipe Life: Tater Tot Casserole or in the Crock Pot

Friday, February 24, 2012

Tater Tot Casserole or in the Crock Pot

I LOVE LOVE LOVE "Just A Pinch Recipe Club"

Tater-Tot Casserole

Ingredients: Kids love this dish!!!

1 lb ground beef or turkey, browned, seasoned & drained

2-3 c of canned (drained) or frozen vegetable of choice: green beans, corn, peas or mixed vegetables (optional)

3 lb frozen tater tots

1 can(s) cream of chicken soup

1 can(s) cream of mushroom soup

1 1/2 c milk

8-12 oz

cheddar cheese, shredded***can add onion soup with sour cream for a twist

Directions

Spread meat into a 13x9 greased casserole dish.

At this point you can add a layer of your optional vegetable of choice.

Cover with tater tots.

Combine the soups & milk.

Pour evenly over the tater tots.

Bake for 45 minutes at 350'.

Add the cheese & bake for 10-15 more minutes.

Or Try it Crock Pot Style....

32 oz	bag frozen tater tots
1	lb. ground beef, browned
1/2 tsp	salt
1/4 tsp	pepper
2	14 1/2 oz. cans green beans, drained
10 3/4 oz	can cream of mushroom soup
1 Tbsp	dried onions
1/4 c	milk

Directions

line the bottom of slow cooker with tater tots; combine remaining ingreds., and pour over potatoes.; cover and cook on high 3 hrs.

sprinkle each serving with your choice of grated cheese

No comments:

Post a Comment

***Some Interesting Food and Health Facts***

*Avacados
*You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
*The drive-in restaurant concept, where patrons are served food in their vehicles, dates back to pre-World War II. The concept reached its height of popularity in the early 1950's. The first drive-in restaurant opened in Glendale, California in 1936.
*The average American consumes about 30 pounds of hamburger a year.
*The popsicle was invented by 11-years-old Frank Epperson in 1905. Epperson (1894-?) lived in San Francisco, California. Epperson had left a fruit drink out overnight (with a stirrer in it), and it froze, making a new treat.
*Purchase at least one pound of uncooked turkey per person when purchasing a whole turkey. You'll have enough for the feast and leftovers, too.
*Consuming chocolate was once considered a sin during the 16th and 17th century.
*The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
*You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.
* Apples are made of 25% air, that is why they float.
* Apples, onions, and potatoes all have the same taste? Try the test: Pinch your nose and take a bite out of each.
* Carrots were originally purple in colour, changing in the 17th Century to orange with newer varieties.
* Cherries are a member of the rose family.
* Corn always has an even number of ears.
* Orange does not rhyme with any other word.
* Pears are a fruit that ripens from the inside out.
* Strawberries are the only fruit which has its seeds on its outer skin.
*44% of Americans go on a diet each year.
*A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
*Catsup was sold as medicine, in the 1830's.
*Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
*Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.
*Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.
*Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
*The average ear of corn has 800 kernels arranged in 16 rows. *Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.