[alloysteel]

We expected, perhaps, recipes for casseroles WITHOUT cream of mushroom soup?

[Spruce]

Hotdish must have a crunchy top layer. Usually corn flakes or crushed potatoe chips. The fancy hotdish has those fried onion ring things on top.
I have never been to a gathering up here where there is not at least 1 hotdish.
Lemon squares and green jello with fruit suspended in it are almost as common.

[vikzilla]

As any good Lutheran from the Midwest knows the worst recipe of any knid anywhere is one that does anything with Lutefisk.

[3AngelaD]

I can beat that:

1 pound ground beef

can of mushroom soup

small can of chopped black olives

ketchup

Worchestershire Sauce

two bricks of cream cheese.

Saute beef. When beef is cooked, add rest of ingredients. Stir over low heat until cream cheese melts. Pour in 9X13 cake pan. Cover with canned doughboy biscuits. Bake in 350 oven until biscuits are cooked through and browned.

No, I don't eat this myself. I would die. I had it once at someone else's house about 20 years ago, and it was like eating a mushy brick: very heavy on the tummy, yet oddly tasteless. I regretted it at the time, and for days after. I asked for the recipe out of curiosity, and this is what I was told to do. Note the absence of fresh anything, except the hamburger.Be afraid. Be very afraid.

[egarvue]

Lutheran-sitting-in-my-cubicle-at-work-salivating-at-the-thought-of-a-good-old-Lutheran-potluck-supper-dangit-now-I'm-hungry bump!

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Well there's plenty of cheese here, but I've yet to see the moose...

[Minnesoootan]

Da cass-a-rolll,clean da ice box,add a can of soup der,bake at 350-500 degrease for 15min to 1-1/2hrs. until a crust forms on top or it boils over and sets ofda smoke detector der...serve wid catsup and white bread wid butter.

What most people miss aboot the wacky diet is that the majority of Lutherans in Minnesooota smoke alot of dope.

I'm a Presbiedterian,so I'm clean,we have da more better cass-a-rollls,like wild rice hotdish.I made one just the other weekend with ground Elk,FRESH onions,green pepper,garlic,celery,mushrooms,a few splashes of soy sauce and some black pepper and yes CREAM OF MUSHROOM SOUP....to die for....if you wanna be fancy put fresh cut tamaters on top 15 min before it's boiled over,if it's the dead of winter,use catsup.

[.38sw]

This sounds suspiciously like the recipes in the book my mom gave me from here home town. It was a collection of recipes from the Baptist church in Underwood, North Dakota. They must have plagiarized!