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Season 3, Episode 2: Tator Tot Hotdish for Vegetarians AND Meat Eaters One Recipe One Dish. As a vegetarian, have you ever looked at a dish and wish you could have some too? Well that was me with Tator Tot hotdish for years, so I finagled a meatless Tator Tot Hotdish so I could have a vegetarian tator tot hot dish alongside my family have meat tator tot hotdish. Tator tot hotdish is popular in Minnesota, and is a class Midwest dinner casserole dish. I've never tasted it, UNTIL I made a vegetarian version. This is one recipe for one dish to create a meatless hotdish portion and a meat portion. Midwest cooking! Casserole Recipes! Let's go!

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Recipe adapted from "The Great Minnesota Hot Dish" cookbook by Theresa Millang
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Make this dish work for vegetarians and meat-eaters:
Ingredients:
1 lb ground beef, lightly seasoned with salt and pepper
1/2 cup chopped onions (cooked is better)
1 (10 3/4 ounce) can of cream of celery (or cream of potato)
1 cup creamed corn (or beans or peas)
1 small can of peas and carrots, drained
1 (10 3/4 ounce) cream of mushroom soup
Frozen tator tots
1 can chickpeas (drained)
1/2 cup fried onions

Instructions:
Spread raw ground beef in 3/4 of a greased 9x13 glass baking dish. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Spread chickpeas across remaining 1/4 of pan where the ground beef is not. Sprinkle evenly with cooked diced onions. Top with cream of celery soup, spread it across with a spoon. Top with can of creamed corn, spread it across the whole pan evenly. Spread the can of drained peas and carrots evenly across the top. Sprinkle evenly with fried onions. Lay a confluent layer of frozen tator tots across the entire pan. Spread cream of mushroom across the entire top of the dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 55 to 60 minutes. Carefully scoop out meatless portions, avoiding scooping up any meat. Top each serving with ketchup to garnish as desired.

Enjoy!

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Season 3, Episode 1: Cream Cheese Quiches, Jalapeno and Onion & Chives. These little quiches are so good! With a pie crust cradling them, these savory creamy quiches are super tasty and so delicious! #vegetarian #eggs #cooking #cookbook #recipes #meatless #breakfast #brunch

These are easy to make quiches. This recipe originated for my cookbook American Midwest Quiches, but I modified it to make one jalapeno quiche and one onion and chives quiche. I did this so there was a spicier version and a less spicier version. It can easily be modified to all spicy or all non spicy.

Ingredients:
7.5 ounces jalapeno flavored cream cheese, softened
7.5 ounces onion and chives flavored cream cheese, softened
8 eggs, divided
2/3 c. skim milk, divided
1/2 c. white onions, diced
1/2 c. red onions, diced,
1/3 c. green chilis
1/3 c. canned jalaplenos
1/2 c. shredded cheddar cheese, divided
1/2 tsp garlic salt, divided
2 pre-prepared pie crusts
1 tbsp olive oil
OPTIONAL: 1/2 c. bacon bits
OPTIONAL: 2 c. salsa

Instructions:

1. Beat together 4 eggs, 1/2 c. milk, and 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt separately in two separate bowls.
2. Add the softened cream cheese (set out at room temperature until softened) to the egg and milk mixtures, one jalapeno cream cheese to one bowl and one onion and chives cream cheese to the other. Mix with a hand mixer until fully blended smooth.
3. Saute both types of onions in olive oil until softened.
4. Press pie crusts into 2 pie pans (be sure to set them out at room temperature first to soften them).
5. Spread jalapenos across one pan, green chili across the other.
6. Spread 1/2 the onions to each pie crust, sprinkling them across evenly.
7. Sprinkle 1/2 c. shredded cheddar cheese evenly across both crusts.
8. Pour the jalapeno cream cheese, egg, & milk mixture across the jalapeno quiche and the onion and chives cream cheese, egg, & milk mixture over the green chilis quiche.
9. If you wish to make them with meat, add bacon bits to desired quiches (alternatively top with bacon bits after cooking).
10. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour. Quiche is done when a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean.
11. Allow quiches to cool for about 10 minutes.
12. Serve. Top with salsa as desired.

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New helpful little book about cooking for a split table! How to Cook for a Split Table of Vegetarians and Meat-Eaters book affiliate link, the podcast may receive commissions on sales. The for the support! https://amzn.to/4gioVK8

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Universal link https://storyoriginapp.com/universalbooklinks/07baee4a-61dc-11ed-ba27-277909561aeb
Split Table Recipes Cookbook
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Season 2, Episode 21: Holiday recipes! Perfect for #Brunch! What is it? It's a Hawaiian Bread Spinach Quiche Hybrid Recipe. This recipe is great for any time of year, but also perfect for the holidays with the Hawaiian bread and the ham. This is a hybrid recipe, that I coin as such, because it works for a split table of vegetarians and meat eaters. This recipe is a convenient recipe for a split table where it is easy to create a pan of half meat, and half meatless (or three fourths as desired). Very easily you have both meat containing and vegetarian portions. You can customize it depending on how much you want for meat portions and how many for meatless portions. The point is you are getting to feed two diets with one recipe! No short order cook status for you!

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Seasoned Oyster Crackers Snack:
1 tsp dried dill weed
1 tsp garlic powder
1 envelope Hidden Valley Rank dressing mix
1 cup olive oil
12 oz oyster crackers
Mix seasonings together. Pour over crackers. Let sit for 24 hours, stirring several times to coat and mix. If it's still oily, try adding broken up soda crackers and pretzels (this is also a great switch up to add!)

This recipe in in my quiche cookbook and on my website at https://www.juliehoagwriter.com/2022/05/01/hawaiian-bread-spinach-quiche/
where you can easily print it for your convenience.

It's really a tasty quiche and is also a very juicy/moist a leftover as well. Try it with smoked ham for a slightly different flavor.

Ham, spinach, and Hawaiian bread all make me think of the holidays, so that's why I wanted to publish this recipe here now, but it's really delish for any time of the year!

Happy holidays! Merry Christmas!

Extra recipe: The Heart-filled Grinch Punch, A Christmas Mocktail
https://www.juliehoagwriter.com/2018/12/17/heart-filled-grinch-punch-christmas-mocktail/
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#holidaymocktail

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New helpful little book about cooking for a split table! How to Cook for a Split Table of Vegetarians and Meat-Eaters book affiliate link, the podcast may receive commissions on sales. The for the support! https://amzn.to/4gioVK8

Get my Minnesota cookbooks! Cook with eggs!
American Midwest Cooking Quiches cookbook (affiliate links)
https://amzn.to/3DpQoaE
Universal link https://storyoriginapp.com/universalbooklinks/07baee4a-61dc-11ed-ba27-277909561aeb
Split Table Recipes Cookbook
One Dish, Two Diets Cookbook author https://storyoriginapp.com/universalbooklinks/36b9ce90-6b57-11ec-837f-8f2460b6a963

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Self help book:
40 Ways to Honor Your Mom After She Has Passed Away https://amzn.to/459Yyzv
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