Amy's Hotdish

[betsuni]

19. From "How to Talk Minnesotan, A Visitor's Guide":

"On your visit to Minnesota, you will sooner or later come face to face with Minnesota's most popular native food, hotdish. It can grace any table. A traditional main course, hotdish is cooked and served hot in a single baking dish and commonly appears at family reunions and church suppers. Hotdish is constructed on a base of canned cream of mushroom soup and canned vegetables. The other ingredients are as varied as the Minnesota landscape. If you sit down to something that doesn't look like anything you've seen before, it's probably hotdish. As of the November 1986 state hotdish survey, there were 3,732 different hotdish recipes in Minnesota, up twelve from the previous November. Here are eight hot dishes taken at random from that survey.

Spaghetti-Tuna Hotdish
Garbanzo Bango Hotdish
Velveeta-Hamburger Hotdish
Ketchup Surprise Hotdish
Back of the Refrigerator Hotdish
Doggone Good Hotdish
Turkey Wiener Doodah Hotdish
Organ Meat-Cashew Hotdish"