Wow! I have been quite the slacker lately. At least when it comes to blogging. I have been super busy working on some other projects, so blogging, and even cooking/baking, have been on the back burner. No pun intended. The drought has hit especially hard in trying new main dishes. But fortunately, I did carve out some late recently to try out this yummy cabbage roll casserole.
I have never had a cabbage roll, but the idea of it, and pictures of it, seemed pretty good. Then I started seeing recipes on Pinterest for cabbage roll casserole. They were described as being similar to cabbage rolls, but without the work of rolling. Bingo! I love anything that involves less work, especially these days!
Some things never get old. Like Dolly Parton and tator tot casserole. Who didn't get excited as a kid to find out that tator tot casserole was on the dinner menu? It's just a classic. I bought a bag of tator tots a while ago because they were on sale, and I can't resist a good sale. I decided that it would be way more awesome to make tator tot casserole than to just have plain old tator tots.
Unfortunately, I hadn't made tator tot casserole in years. And by years, I mean not since my college days with my old roomie Stefanie. Stefanie made a mean tator tot casserole (and her and her husband just had their first baby two days ago, so congratulations!!!). I remembered the basics of tator tot casserole. It is pretty simple, after all. But I wasn't feeling overly confident in my ability to recreate Stefanie's yummy version which I had loved so much.
So I went to my old-school cookbooks thinking that somewhere in those pages of good old comfort food and casserole recipes I was bound to find at least one tried-and-true tator tot casserole recipe. I was wrong. In all my cookbooks, I didn't have one tator tot casserole recipe. I guess all those church ladies and farmer's wives assumed that anyone with a brain in their skull and an oven in their kitchen just knew how to make tator tot casserole. The good news is that thanks to a little invention called the internet, I knew I could scrounge up a tasty recipe in no time. So I got to searching.
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