Iowa, Land of the Casserole

Chilihead — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:00:00 +0000

My love of Iowa is well-documented. So don’t give me any grief about giving them grief.

Iowa is the land of the casserole. They will vehemently deny it, but I have yet to visit that state without being fed several casseroles on my visit. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good casserole. Every meal, though?

They even like their chips to be casseroles. Case in point: Walking Tacos. It’s basically a bag of chips and you dump everything to make a taco into the chip bag. You have your little bag of Doritos and you dump in meat, sour cream, cheese, tomatoes, etc. and eat it with a spoon right out of the bag. My husband was instantly in love; why couldn’t we just buy Fritos instead of Doritos and dump in chili? Instant Walking Frito Pie! Genius.

Also? I was informed that the Iowa version of tuna noodle casserole is to make Mac&Cheese, dump in Cream of Mushroom soup, and add tuna. Wow. Of course, this is also really easy to make as a one-person casserole: you just use the single serve microwave Mac&Cheese.

Again, WOW.

Amazing minds come up with this stuff.

Picture courtesy of Benimoto’s Flickr group via CC.

WFMW: Chocolate Cherries

Chilihead — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:00:00 +0000

Today Shannon asked us to share our recipes that involve five ingredients or less. Since I figured driving to Taco Bueno for dinner probably wouldn’t count as a recipe, I decided to share my recipe for chocolate cherries.

Chocolate and cherries? And it’s in the crockpot? Easy and yummy. My two favorite things.

Ingredients

1 (21 ounce) can cherry pie filling
1 (18 ounce) package chocolate cake mix
1/2 cup butter

Directions

Place pie filling in slow cooker.
Combine dry cake mix and butter.
Sprinkle over filling.
Cover and cook on low for 3 hours.

Now head back over to Shannon’s for some additional foodie treats.

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Iowa, Land of the Casserole

WFMW: Chocolate Cherries