1 10oz can of cream of chicken (or cream of potato or cream of mushroom)
1 15oz can of butter beans
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
½ cup Greek yogurt (or sour cream)
2 tablespoons of minced garlic (fresh or jarred)
2 teaspoons of Worcestershire sauce
Herbamare (or herb salt)
Garlic powder
Onion Powder
Parsley
Instructions -
Heat the oven to 400 degrees F
1. In a large pan, heat up some oil (olive or canola is best!). Once heated, sautee onions and garlic until soft and fragrant. Season lightly with Herbamare and garlic powder.
2. Add in veggie medley and mix with the onions and garlic, and cook until softened, roughly 5 to 8 minutes. (Cooking from frozen will take longer)
3. Add in butter beans, mix and then cook for approximately 5 minutes. Season again, but this time with Herbamare, garlic powder and onion powder.
4. Add in the ground meat, season one more time, but with parsley, garlic onion, onion powder and Herbamare. Incorporate pan contents into the meat and continue until fully combined. Cook the meat until all traces of pink is gone.
5. Then, add in the cream of chicken, greek yogurt, Worcestershire sauce and 1 cup of cheddar cheese into the mix and mix until all ingredients are combined.
6. Once fully combined, transfer pan contents into a large glass dish. Top with crispy crowns and leave as little room as possible between each piece. Once the dish has been completely covered with crispy crowns, top with the remaining cup of cheddar cheese.
7. Place into the oven and cook for 30 to 40 minutes. If you want a crispier topping, cook for the longer amount of time.
8. Remove from oven and let cool for 15 minutes. Serve and enjoy!
Video instructions will be on TikTok and YouTube!
Notes - I don’t use precise measurements of seasonings, I just season my food until it feels right. Season the meat to your personal taste, and remember there’s no such thing as too much garlic but there is too much salt!
Herbamare by A. Vogel is my preferred type of herbed salt as it tastes the best in my opinion. If you can’t find it in store, you can buy it online!
Depending on which meat type you use will change the beans you use. If you use ground chicken, turkey or pork, stick with a white bean such as butter beans, cannellini beans, navy beans or great white northern beans. For a red ground meats, such as beef, lamb, bison or venison, stick with dark beans such as kidney bean, black beans, red beans or fava beans.
(Also yes I know pork is a red meat, but it’s the weird one where it tastes better with a white bean versus a dark bean)
Thank you to Cooking in the Midwest for inspiring me to make my own tater tot casserole recipe!
Note: Please keep in mind, I'm an American and I made the tea how I make mine at home. ;_; I know British people usually put a dash of milk in there, but I'll be honest, I didn't have any milk on hand.
Honestly, the saddest thing about losing TikTok is that no other site has an algorithm anything like it.
On TT, the algorithm naturally pushes my videos to people who would enjoy them, so my views look like this
Meanwhile, over on YouTube, the EXACT SAME VIDEOS only have this much reach
And then IG, which is the site that assumes banning TT will bring everyone back is even worse
So many people don't bother with IG anymore because every other post is an ad, their reels algorithm is horrendous and mostly shows advertisements or sponsored content, and if not that, then content farms full of stolen content. YouTube's algorithm has been broken for years, and finding new people who aren't already popular to follow is a nightmare.
Like yeah, TT had issues and there were several things to aggravated me about it. But we can't deny, they had a really good algorithm.
I need some good fantasy or scifi to read that doesn't involve romance. preferably urban fantasy or cyberpunk or just downright weird shit, but I could do with more traditional stuff. as long as people aren't driven by lust. I'm so so soso so sososososoooooooo very tired of reading that sort of thing in traditional print novels.
#this is such a mood. i kind of stopped reading YA and even a lot of adult fantasy bc of the fixation on romance#op i'm preeeetty sure i didn't follow you for murderbot so forgive me if you know it but if not may i recommend the murderbot diaries#the imperial radch series is also some great non-romance-centric scifi#i've been recc'd several different books by Victoria Goddard for platonic/queerplatonic centered fantasy#only one i've read so far is Hands of the Emperor but it was GREAT#others who follow me probably have more ideas#(i hope i have not misread the room here by offering recommendations)
you weren't misreading, I was unintentionally unclear. recs are Very Welcome XD thank you!!
I keep a goodreads list of No Romance Books for exactly this reason lol.
ABSOLUTE FAVORITES
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. Sci-fi series, space opera-ish. You've got a lot of recs for this already.
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. Sci-fi space opera. I've only read the first one still but it's brilliant.
Piranesi by Sunanna Clarke. Fantasy. A man lives alone in an infinite House over an equally infinite ocean. Ethereal and luminous and melancholy and beautiful.
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. Sci-fi thriller. Cloning! Dinosaurs! Math! I still love it.
WEIRD AND INTERESTING
The Jewels of Aptor by Samuel Delaney. Weird 1960s science-fantasy. The main characters could be read as romantic if you want - the homoeroticism can't be unintentional - but there isn't Romance Proper in it.
Werecockroach by Polenth Blake. Alien invasion/animal shapeshifter story. Novella. Zany and fast-paced. Aroace agender protagonist like the author.
And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed. Sorta dystopian strange fantasy in an urban setting. Novella. The main characters are sex workers of the high-class courtesan prostitute type, and after one of them is murdered by a client, she comes back to life - and sets out on a whirlwind of freedom and revenge and justice she never got while alive.
Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir. Novella. Fractured-fairy-tale fantasy. Told in a snarky, sardonic style, not nearly as upbeat as it initially seems.
The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark. Steampunk-fantasy. Novella. YA-ish? Steampunk New Orleans and a Black girl who can talk to the Orisha falls into a plot to steal a scientist's superweapon.
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger. Urban fantasy, YA. Urban fantasy in an all-myths-are-real kind of sense from a Lipan Apache perspective, starring an Apache girl who can talk to ghosts trying to solve her cousin's murder. Asexual protagonist with no interest in romance or partnering; it's refreshing and the sort of YA I would have loved as a teen.
HAVEN'T READ THIS BUT I KEEP MEANING TO
Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace. Cyberpunk. No romance at all. VR and stuff. NKS is aroace and centering non-romantic experiences was her explicit goal here.
SOME ROMANCE BUT IT'S NOT A MAJOR FOCUS
Synners by Pat Cadigan. Cyberpunk. A kaleidoscopic whirlwind of a book with lots of characters with lots of varied relationships; romance is among them but not alone and certainly not the focus.
Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone. Urban fantasy, sort of - it's like a fantasy-kitchen-sink world with gods whose contracts power the magic in the world, so magicians are lawyers and lawyers are magicians and one lawyer-magician has to solve the murder of, and resurrect, a murdered god before his magic grinds to a halt and the city powered by his magic collapses. I'm not doing this description justice - it was vivid and compelling. The main characters do not have any romance, but a supporting character has a toxic ex she can't fully get over that features as a sideplot in the story.
Finna by Nino Cipri. Weird, universe-hopping science-fantasy. IKEA has a tendency to rip open portals to other universes and the minimum wage employees gotta deal with it. The two main characters were dating but have recently broken up, and they don't get back together but rather figure out how to be friends again after the breakup.
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee. Military sci-fi space opera with a vast and interesting world and a very violent war. A military captain breaks rank and defies orders, so as punishment she has the digital ghost of a long dead war criminal downloaded into her head and she is pointed at a rebellion and told to crush it. I love Kel Cheris. No romance but some flashbacks to sex and sexual coercion.
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