

Sprinkle onions over the top of the casserole. Combine sour cream, cheese, and condensed soup in a mixing bowl. Arrange tater tots in the prepared baking dish. We topped ours with sour cream, but it wouldn’t have needed it if I hadn’t made it a touch too spicy for Josh. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). It was the best way I could think of to up the veggie factor while getting rid of the weird, canned cheese soup. It’s a Mexican take on Josh’s old favorite. My long history with tots aside, this is GOOD. And we may have written “Tina, come get some ham” in ketchup on the foil we presented on, ha.
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But we were told we had the most unique display and got full points for creativity 😉 Oh. Needless to say, how weird I am didn’t win me any friends. We had to coat them in varnish so they wouldn’t fall apart by class the next day, and it pretty much put me off on tater tots for years. He went along with it, but frozen tater tots do not really hold up well to being held together by toothpicks in a pentagonal bipyramidal configuration. We were paired up with a random classmate to make VSEPR models and for some reason, I suggested to Paul (who I had never even conversed with before) that we make them out of these tater tots. That was the year I was taking high school Chemistry. They may or may not have included a note that said “Napoleon, give me some of your tots”. Add the ground beef and cook another 5-7 minutes or until browned, breaking up the pieces with a wooden spoon as it cooks. Add the onion and saut 4-5 minutes or until soft. Fun fact: I once received a bulk-sized package of frozen tater tots for Christmas. Heat the oil or butter in a large stove-top casserole dish or large oven-safe skillet to medium. Tater tots are definitely something I can get behind, though. The idea of something that is just ground beef, condensed cheese soup, and potatoes sends shivers up my spine. Ever since I met him in 2008, he has been going on and on about something called tater tot casserole. Mark it in your calendars – Josh gets an “I told you so”. Mix 1 can of cream of mushroom soup with veggie of choice and 1/2 can of milk.
