

Franken said in 2016, the year he entered his Land of 10,000 Calories hotdish, made with pork shoulder and Ritz crackers. “It’s always nice to put aside our differences and come together over some great hotdish,” Mr. Klobuchar uses for her house parties won the inaugural competition. Al Franken, the former Democratic senator from Minnesota, started a hotdish competition in 2011 as a way to bring together the state’s Congressional delegation. This is not hotdish’s first turn in the political barrel. Later the article (with some corrections by me) adds: Oddly some of the photo captions use the correct word. The NY Times - or at least this reporter - is sadly out of touch but determined to show her superiority. See also this Wikipedia article on hotdish.Ī “hot dish” is a dish that is hot a “hotdish” is a specific type of casserole from Minnesota.

Bessler grew up eating hotdish, and knows her mother’s recipe by heart.Ĭontinue reading. She sent her daughter, Abigail Bessler, 24, the legislative director for Keith Powers, a New York City councilman.
#AMY KLOBUCHAR TATER TOT HOTDISH TRIAL#
The candidate herself has showed up at some, but last week she had to stay in Washington for the impeachment trial of President Trump. Klobuchar’s Taconite Tater Tot Hotdish, named after a rock mined in the Iron Range of Minnesota. The events are essentially small potlucks with campaign literature and a glass baking dish filled with Ms. “Hotdish is a great unifier - just like Amy,” the campaign’s cheery invitations read. Klobuchar has been feeding her recipe, blanketed in Tater Tots, to voters at gatherings the campaign calls Hotdish House Parties.
#AMY KLOBUCHAR TATER TOT HOTDISH SERIES#
In a series of events that began in New Hampshire last summer and continued this month in Iowa, Ms. Now, hot dish has been conscripted to help Amy Klobuchar, the senator from Minnesota, win the Democratic nomination for president. Topped with Tater Tots or mixed with rice, more modern renditions offer working parents an inexpensive way to get dinner on the table after a long day. Hot dish, the Minnesota-specific church-supper stalwart that cooks in other parts of the country might mistake for a casserole, is no stranger to hard work.Įarly versions of the dish - traditionally a mix of protein, starch and vegetables held together with a creamy sauce baked until it bubbles - helped conserve meat during World War I and fed farm families during the Depression. Hotdish is a staple of Minnesotan get-togethers, particularly church suppers, and Amy Klobuchar has made it a staple of her campaign in Iowa.
