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- noun US A variety of
baked casserole that typically contains astarch , ameat or other protein, and a canned and/or frozenvegetable , mixed with cannedsoup . - noun A main
course orsidedish served hot during ameal .
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Examples
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Finally, we dragged Mason away from the "clown house" (complete with massively overweight carnie woman chain-smoking in charge of the tickets) and more sliding, and went home for "hotdish" dinner.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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Maybe it's all the "hotdish" I ate as a child, or maybe it's the fact that I always appreciate an unpretentious meal I can toss together with ingredients I have on hand, but I really like the idea of a one-dish meal.
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Maybe it's all the "hotdish" I ate as a child, or maybe it's the fact that I always appreciate an unpretentious meal I can toss together with ingredients I have on hand, but I really like the idea of a one-dish meal.
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As does the local color, including lefse (though the dreaded lutefisk is not mentioned) and concoctions like canned spaghetti on garlic-butter toasted hot-dog buns (nothing with lime jello though) and the very word "hotdish" (unknown in Californiaese: we have "casseroles").
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Then you put them in a hotdish pan (= casserole dish for those Not From Here) with some kind of cooked meat if you eat meat, some assortment of chopped veggies to your liking, some kind of sauce if you want one, and throw cheese over the whole thing.
mrissa: Having, eating. mrissa 2010
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We decided which hotdish to eat last night by noting which one was still hot.
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We are mostly all eating the same thing, because it's easier to just take one hotdish out of the fridge and one salad and use them up before they go bad and take another thing out of the freezer when it's called for.
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Right now it says: lamb stew plum scallops potato hotdish pasta bake potpie tacos
mrissa: Having, eating. mrissa 2010
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It might change in revisions, but right now the last word is "hotdish."
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In Minnesota, we sing that line, "Silence like a hotdish."
asativum commented on the word hotdish
Casserole, found in the upper Midwest of the U.S. Quoth Wikipedia: "It consists of a starch and a protein (meat and/or a vegetable) mixed together with a binding ingredient (most often canned soup or a sauce) and a topping."
You betcha!
May 11, 2008
dontcry commented on the word hotdish
Green bean casserole, shepherd's pie, tuna casserole...oh, ya sure, you betcha. Dat's good eatin'!
May 11, 2008
asativum commented on the word hotdish
I'm hongry.
May 11, 2008