Infomercialism: Dump Dinners

[@_Piers_]

I think maybe her plan was to make sure all the meals were so unhealthy that no one who bought the book would live long enough to take her to court...

[@Freako]

Waiting for dump breakfasts. Pouring milk into cereal is too hard.

[@eparadoxigm9648]

Well you could always pour cereal into milk.

[@zhouhuanyue]

+AFGNCAAP Paradigm I thought only Satan spawns did that?

[@eparadoxigm9648]

周歡悅 Hail Satan!

[@zhouhuanyue]

+AFGNCAAP Paradigm well that answers my question 😅

[@slimcognito383]

+AFGNCAAP Paradigm Are you mad!? No sane person would do that

[@coralaisly]

As an American with midwestern and southern family, I've seen my fair share of cheese balls, and that... Well, I hope you're proud of yourself, Kathy Mitchell, I have nightmares now. Think about what you've done, Kathy. That cookbook isn't from America. I live in America. We have some pretty chill stuff. That cookbook was conceived on the beaches of the lake of fire. It should've been left where it was birthed. What have you done, Kathy? What has the human race done to deserve this? Go back from whence you came, Kathy! Go back! BUT, as an American who lives about 45 minutes from the US/Mexico border, and whose roommate is Mexican, I can confidently say that "tortilla" is pronounced "tore-tea-yuh."

[@CowboyLuigi]

I think it's one of those acquired tastes from the land of Mid-income Suburbia

[@Drakulas77]

the book has no pictures. They fucking knew.

[@RinFaust]

"ISSAT A DINNAH?!" he sounded so genuinely confounded haha

[@dolgy3762]

the inside of the book looks like it was typed in microsoft word and just printed it out on the cheapest paper available.

[@Lucaz99]

That shit doesn't even occupy half the page!

[@Kaeltis]

Wow, the pages in that book are 50% empty. So on the plus side - for your money you get free blank paper to write hate letters.

[@Larry]

Kathy Mitchell, yet to make her appearance on Eastenders as Grant's aunt.

[@davegoes]

She could be Babe's long lost twin.

[@coltenmeyer2775]

I say we take east enders to asia completely new cast 'v'

[@Mngalahad]

Hey, the one producer from CA. He doesnt quit so you have to!

[@Thematt11]

Larry you're like the "Where's Wally" of KZbin, this is not a comments section I expected to find you in but there you are, hidden behind the shit food :)

[@xMisterInkx]

My favorite series! British People Getting Upset at Nachos!

[@PRODBYKALEB783]

I am an American and i have never heard of a Taco cheese ball. But i have heard of a cheese ball, and its usually just cream cheese, dried ham, chives, etc.

[@Kou901]

Sometimes they get fancy and it's cream cheese with berries and nuts.

[@bethanygunnels9036]

I'm an American too and have never heard of the one he did. I think it is a spin on a pimento cheese ball, but with rotel instead of pimentos

[@lordspoice5192]

fucking cringed when he put the tortilla chips on there

[@HodorsLeftShoe]

yeah American here also... I've never had a cheese ball. I know they are a thing some people eat. I haven't been at a party, or someone else's house, etc. and ever seen one even served.

[@legnakoorbloh3970]

Hodor's Left Shoe i make em at thanksgiving and xmas

[@ZILtoid1991]

Those foods looked like something a college student would make when they run out of money and only have a few things left in the fridge.

[@hermitcrack9091]

or a very high college student.

[@SchizoGenius]

"As a modern mom-on-the-go, I don't have time to make dinner for my entire family, so I make a dump dinner every night! I just take a dump into a pan, stick in the oven, and there's enough or my entire family!"

[@Adrastia]

She just makes sure to have a massive lunch at Arby's every day.

[@Bogwedgle]

"Do you have to stick cheese on everything" Mike, it's America. They'd put cheese on their cheese if it made any sense.

[@robokill387]

Bogwedgle they literally do in this recipe. Grated cheese in cream cheese. Fucking dumb.

[@kohinarec6580]

And I've seen Irish eat chips *and* crisps with their mashed potatoes. I bet the Brits do the exact same thing.

[@robinlavois4483]

Watch the movie called Napoleon Dynamite for expertise for cheese on cheese, on cheese.

[@Forsparda]

what do you think 4 cheese pizza's are

[@mitchellhorton9382]

@@kohinarec6580 scooping up mashed potatoes with fries is done in America believe you me

[@Robobagpiper]

Growing up in Dallas, my family used to make something very close to her Chicken Nacho Casserole for lunch almost every Sunday. We just added a can of cream of chicken soup & half a can of enchilada sauce as well before putting it in the oven. The tortillas absorb the moisture from the soup and the sauce and become all gooey. We'd have it with a side of refried beans. I love the hell out of that stuff. But without the soup and sauce, I can imagine it'd be pretty boring.

[@SimonCallahan]

Your version sounds better. The casserole shown in the video looks extremely dry.

[@SleepNeed]

That sounds more of a meal than this was. The recipe in the book was more for an appetizer/snack than meal and looked bone dry. I might actually make that (your's, not the book's) for dinner sometime. While unhealthy and artery clogging, it sounds tasty.

[@Robobagpiper]

Don't bother to layer if you do. We put the tortilla chips on bottom, then just poured the soup, canned chicken (with juice) enchilada sauce on top of them, stirred, then layered the cheese on top. As it baked, we'd open up the oven and stir in the cheese. My wife doesn't like the soggy-tortilla aspect of it, so next time I try it, I'll make it w/o the chips in the baking pan, but instead serve it in a corn tortilla, as sort of a gringo-enchilada.

[@Jargas101]

Haha I was gonna say you already kinda turned them into chicken enchiladas.

[@Robobagpiper]

That's what we called them in my household, but really, my sense has always been that a proper enchilada is that it's made from a rolled, filled tortilla, not a pile of tortilla chips. So I started calling them chicken enchilada casserole, which seems more accurate.

[@snowbeast4463]

That nacho casserole thing sounds like the type of meal you make when you're completely broke and just want to bung together whatever you can find in your cupboard.

[@c0mpu73rguy]

This book is so sad looking on the inside. All the text is at the top of the page, in a bland font, without colours, or pictures, leaving the bottom of the page blank... It just looks like printed pages. I mean of course it's printed but I mean printed pages you would see in report for a company, not a cook book. And I know it's a cliché but seriously Cathy Mitchell, a british person is telling you your food is awful!

[@DC101-i8q]

Gotta save them dollars

[@Hammerhead547]

There's no photos because there's no way to make those dishes look even remotely appetizing too anyone who doesn't have the palate of a pig.

[@bobfleadip]

Cathy Mitchell, making America Dump again

[@RabbitsInBlack]

Ignore the Trump Supporter. They are real Notsees.

[@ChrisHominski]

im gonna go out on a limb here and say that cathy mitchell is not qualified to write a cookbook

[@elvinmadson]

"Too much cheese"...... Interesting concept.

[@veradinx]

He's British, it's to be expected that food should be as bland as possible.

[@KitsunenoHibi]

Casseroles sort of follow a similar theory to shepherd's pie. Casseroles just have more varieties of filling. They were HUGELY popular in the US during the 50's and 60's. But yeah.... the chicken thing wasn't a casserole. Casseroles need to have a creamy base.

[@ThomasMilligan_UK]

A Week On....Dump Dinners! I'm sure your missus would be up for it too ;)

[@Jigglysaint]

Considering how much cheese that is in everything, it's either going to be very dumpy, or not very dumpy at all.

[@AdrianTechWizard]

Oh yeah, A Week on 'Dump Dinners', Mike, the audience has spoken! You could do it with only afternoon meals though since the book has dinner in the title.

[@LWolf12]

Come on man... What did Mike ever do to you?

[@Jargas101]

If there's even enough actual dump dinners in there. Might be like the cake one where there's only a few

[@ybunnygurl]

totally got to do it totally got to do it a week on dump dinners

[@eparadoxigm9648]

Isn't that Skillet Beefy Pasta the dish that KILLED your oven door? LOL

[@Jayenkai]

I almost vom'd as I saw you handling the slimy ball of cheese, tomato taco blob...

[@jakecobovic9091]

Same. I had to skip that part.

[@FerHivore]

When I get home from work, I just don’t have the time or energy to pop something in the oven or boil water. If only I could simply pre-measure ingredients, laboriously stir it all together, roll it into a fucking disgusting ball, refrigerate it for an hour, then roll it in corn chips… it’d be so much simpler.

[@ultralordking]

I didn't know I was watching howtobasic lol

[@Loud0glbc]

Thought the same!

[@phenoix1248]

I was waiting for him to smash the egg the whole video.

[@peterrandall1272]

Haha true

[@Jacefax]

"1 can of tomatoes, DRAINED" But not like that would have saved the recipe anyway...

[@WindowsXPFrog]

"Do you have to stick cheese in everything?" Yes, yes you do.

[@TimedropStudios]

Too much cheese is an impossibility.

[@knottheory79220]

Dear God. I am from Texas and I have never seen such bizarre concoctions.

[@adamglover2753]

“Is this a real thing , is Cathy Mitchell taking the absolute piss” had me rolled up laughing 😂😂😂

[@smallpaulissmall5582]

"This is just too much cheese" I am not sure we can still be friends, Mike.

[@thatoneweirdo5940]

I was half expecting him to pull an Ashens and blowtorch the book.

[@Isolder74]

Why do we need to believe that ravioli tossed in a casserole dish with cheese tossed on top in anyway is even close to resembling a lasagna.

[@Pistonrager]

because the ingredients are the same... pasta,meat,cheese. like most "mexican food" is the same. tortilla,meat,cheese.

[@SlowMotionAtomicBomb]

When Mike asked "Do you have to stick cheese in everything?", it should have cut to him sticking a block of cheese into a blender.

[@dylandreisbach1986]

Sorry, but its bugging me. Tortilla= Tor-tee-a. LL in spanish is more of a y/strong e sound.

[@whiterabbit75]

+Shah Gamer Yeah, because who cares about not sounding like a moron?

[@RoseWaltz]

You know, that first one? I think I know a way to change it. Skip the chips and the pepper-jack cheese and just go for a Mexican Blend (I'm allergic to pepper and don't like being dead.) Add some ground hamburger with taco seasoning, and then you take some of those canned biscuits, you know, the ones in the twisty can you twist and shriek each time you open them even though you're expecting it? Well, line the bottom of an over dish with the biscuits, then layer the stuff on top and bake it until it's done. That might be good.

[@theMrromeijn]

You bought an entire book... So when is the "A week on dump dinner"?

[@gh05tsh3ll]

I genuinely don't know how the fk I came across this video, but it made my morning. Have a sub, a like, and a genuine 'lmao', especially at the phrase; "Is Cathy taking the absolute P*SS!?!?"

[@SliverCAN]

....That's not how you pronounce "tortilla"

[@HeidiLongueuil]

This was driving me nuts too. I don't know if he says it that way ironically or not.

[@Zeturic]

Don't lie to him.

[@izzardish19]

I'm British and Mike is the only person I've ever heard pronounce it that way. Maybe I just have a group of friends who like Mexican food?

[@dr666demento]

Y'know he's probably heard authentic Spanish from authentic Spain - it's a popular holiday destination for Brits.

[@LaurenAwesomesauce1]

Dr Demento it's still pronounced fucking tor-tee-ya in Spain ya doughnut

[@radicaledward3783]

The pure contempt with which he assembles these recipes is strangely compelling...

[@katr7969]

that cheese mess is just gross. Who in God's name would anyone serve that to? Oh yeah- Cathy Mitchell- that's who. That chicken "casserole" looked dry AF

[@Jargas101]

Lol I think he didn't drain the rotel can all the way and the extra liquid made it a slime ball. xD They look much better when you do it right

[@TheFettuck]

In smaller portions it would probably do fine as a salsa or something.

[@Psera]

It's more like nachos.

[@the3dvideo]

he said that he drained it.

[@Jargas101]

He says he does a lot of things. He probably just poured out most of the liquid rather than drain. Mike is pretty awful at any kind of cooking so he fucks a lot of these up.

[@Remoxe]

Mike... if you ever need to form something like that into a ball again, put it on some cling wrap/clear wrap and wrap it up in that, then put a twist in the cling wrap. It will stay in a ball and you wont have to get your hands dirty.

[@Skankevich]

15:08 - The moment that GradeAunderA came into the room to review the Dump Dinner! :o

[@midnightfox653]

I cannot imagine what the house would say if I tried to serve that "casserole" as dinner. Nachos might pass for lunch, but not dinner. I like crockpot meals for the lazy factor. Like toss everything in and cook for 6-8 hours. That is more of a dump dinner than this bs.

[@eparadoxigm9648]

I don't get that recipe at all...why does it have to be a casserole? Why not just make chicken nachos? They're already delicious, and dump worthy. Dump chips on pan, dump chicken on chips, dump toppings and cheese on chicken. Pop under broil to melt cheese. Done.

[@eparadoxigm9648]

Hmmm just thought of something, you might be able to turn it into a dinner. Start with raw ingredients, just add some tomatoes/salsa, and a few more veggies. Swap the chips out for rice, and cook it all together, rather than just warming it up. THEN top with crunchy tortilla chips and have sour cream. I'd eat that =P

[@Strawberry92fs]

A meal is a meal, what does when you eat it have to do with anything? Growing up my family always did "breakfast for dinner" at LEAST once a month. Which was literally just food you would associate with breakfast, bacon, pancakes, scrambled eggs, whatever, Served in the evening.

[@PosthumanHeresy]

While I think that the dish could use a sauce (I would use cheesey salsa), nachos can totally be dinner. What's life like, seeing various foods through a filter of "only acceptable when the sun is in certain positions in the sky"?

[@JamiJR]

It's like some radioactive version of the cheeseball my mom makes. No, it's chips, then chicken, than cheese, then more chips, more chicken, more cheese. Chips should be on the bottom.

[@Jargas101]

Lol I don't how he made that slime ball.

[@gettinhitched]

I love Cathy. There is something so comforting about her. Never tried her recipes but her cheerfulness makes me feel like there is hope for America.

[@ignemuton5500]

"is Kathy Mitchell taking the absolute *PISS*"

[@Thegiddyowl]

So I've been looking through cheese ball recipes, and not one I've seen with canned tomatoes/tomatoes unless they're a dip. From what I can tell, wet ingredients added are mostly fats or very little liquid, probably because fat holds its shape better when chilled. What might have savaged this was to wrap it plastic wrap and squeeze all the air out so it compresses into a more solid cheeseball. Nothing can save it from looking like barf tho lol.

[@bossyheifer]

Wow. This seems like WAY more trouble than just going out and I don't know, buying a cheese ball? And this is supposed to somehow save people time and energy? It boggles the mind.

[@LaurenAwesomesauce1]

Kris Dudoich cheese balls are way easier to make than Cathy Mitchell or he makes it seem. It's like the first party dish anyone learns to make

[@poppy1188]

I love this. All the adverts I’m shown are about quality ingredients and nourishing meals, then there’s mike dumping a bunch of random sh*t together and chucking it in the oven. Like the people who clicked on the video are interested in learning how to cook quality, nourishing meals 🤣

[@RittiFruity]

Cant stop thinking about Jaboody dubs's video while looking at this lady.

[@OlEgSaS32]

Get a box-a-pasta then dump a can of Prego, CUZ WE MAKIN' BABIES TONITE!

[@alexandracampbell1078]

Love your videos. If you ever want to try the cheese ball again (probably not given your reaction), use double Gloucester or Red Leicester. When American recipes refer to cheddar, we usually mean one of those. White cheddar is an unusual thing to us. It won't make the cheese ball any better, but since you went through the trouble of getting Rotel, I figured it worth mentioning (where do you get it by the way, I live in Cardiff and have had a bad craving for Rotel and melted cheese dip). :)

[@zh84]

"It won't make the cheese ball any better..." Well, thank you for your honesty ;-)

[@lukatesseract]

I love how Americans would be crucified if they pronounced "tortilla" and "taco" the same way as British people.

[@edbadyt]

Clare Mangan vjust because this one British person pronounces tortilla wrong, doesn't mean we all do. The only British people I've heard saying it like that are old people who are scared of foreign food or children who have only ever read the word.

[@johntumahab323]

Americans love putting cheese on everything. :D It's kind of rough on my dad, as he hates cheese and there's few things in restaurants that don't have it it by default. 10:45 - It certainly resembles a dump. For supposedly being easy and fast, that was a rather complicated cheese ball.

[@LoaderB0t]

How about a week on Dump Dinners? :P

[@JoeyBaldacchino]

The cheese ball looks like something you'd be upset with your cat for leaving on the floor.

[@Tempheart414]

Also you should do a week on dump dinners

[@BlazeGamma]

Irony of Mr. Jeavons complaining about too much cheese considering how frequently it comes up on his channel.

[@sadonion4378]

did she say biscuits as a pizza base? what the fuck?

[@Jimb3rts]

At least they're American biscuits. Still not pizza dough, but at least it's bread.

[@NudCanFly]

American biscuits lol, it's just dough, biscuit dough can be used to make a lot of stuff actually. Just an FYI.

[@Rich77UK]

Septics call Scones biscuits. They get them with KFC with Gravy!

[@sadonion4378]

pwnapoluzastudios oh ok, im from the UK so biscuits here are something entirely different lol. UK biscuits = US cookies. you can see why i thought they would make a weird pizza base haha

[@genoburgess6817]

+Sad Onion haha sad onion can say your name is awsome ashens would love it.

[@donkeybutt3239]

Next time add cornstarch or corn flour to it to thicken it make it stiffer and a little dryer or dont put in the whole can of Rotel. You could try patting down the tomatoes with a paper towel also.

[@SafetySheepRnD]

So... a book full of one pot dinners? Actually sounds pretty useful.

[@davegoes]

I bought it on a whim from the discount bin, it's not. I'm unloading it at this year's Chinese gift swap.

[@SafetySheepRnD]

davegoes that's incredibly disappointing.

[@ToxPhy]

+davegoes Did you mean Christmas gift swap?

[@davegoes]

My Chinese Uncle, Ying (who participates every year) never had a problem with the term, but if it makes you feel better..

[@Jargas101]

Lol like Chinese fire drill. Lol

[@TopFurret]

This book should have been named "College Gourmet"

[@MrJohndoakes]

15:14 "Is that a dinner?!?" Mr. Jeavons, this is the do-it-yourself equivalent of Kentucky Fried Chicken's "Famous Bowl", a meal so awful Patton Oswalt called it a "failure pile in a sadness bowl." It is only a dinner if you live alone, are divorced, and it's Tuesday.

[@tanukioh]

Doing the same thing on any other day is culturally taboo

[@Pistonrager]

+Demis Harper every day is Tuesday when you're alone and divorced... not early enough in the week to try hard but too early to contemplate suicide.

[@tanukioh]

Pistonrager plus one for depression, humor and truth all rolled together.

[@Pistonrager]

Thanks. I thank the BBC for my sense of humor.

[@DarknessViper99]

Oh god I have this cookbook. Was gifted it by my grandma, who also has her own copy. Made a few recipes like the spaghetti carbonara, weren’t too bad I suppose, but it’s pretty barebones save for a few pictures but understandable enough for your average trailer park family.

[@souperman72]

Damn! That's some trailer park cuisine. He should have worn a NASCAR shirt and a Budweiser hat for the video.

[@Themis33]

I had some of the best nights of my life getting stoned with my best mate watching the shopping channel. F hilarious. Literally crying from the bants. Epic

[@Yoroiful]

How about a "Year On Only Water" challenge? It's when you don't eat. You just drink. I heard it works wonders for your body.

[@DarthRushy]

Are you taking the piss?

[@Yoroiful]

DarthRushy I definitely would if I was on that diet.

[@DarthRushy]

+Yoroiful You can't survive more than a month on water.

[@Yoroiful]

DarthRushy Well that's what makes it a challenge. Duh.

[@Roshkin]

No mike would be taking a piss.

[@SamHaugen]

You're my new favorite KZbin channel!

[@1revjay]

You know your county has miserable cuisine when the British can condescend to it.

[@toxicscarecrow1633]

To be fair he does it to any country just so he can whine haha

[@TonyGearSolid]

I wasn't able to participate in the dump cake cook off last year, but I would definitely be up to participate this year if you decide to do another one based off this book.

[@ZefVolk]

Didn't the wanky whisk break? I feel lied to.

[@Willy4k]

It messed up the bowl I think

[@lemeres2478]

Wanky whisky doesn't break. Wanky Whisky breaks everything else. It shall break the earth! It shall break the heavens!

[@RuNoMai]

"Hamburger Soup. For fuck sake, America." I don't know why, but this was the best line in the video to me. Cracked up way too hard at this. XD

[@MarioFaker]

1 can Rotel tomatoes DRAINED

[@thomasjenkins7506]

he did drain them. rotel tomatoes contain a lot of moisture no matter how much you drain them off.

[@Magicgirlamy]

he said in the beginning that they were drained. keep up dude

[@TheCyberwoman]

Ya, for something like this idea let the tomatoes hang out in a fine mesh strainer for quite a while, and maybe pat them dry with a paper towel

[@lemeres2478]

...and maybe there should be instructions on how to drain the tomatoes. It is part of the preparation process. This is a cook book for lazy assholes without a lot of time on their hands to make proper meals, nor the skills to do so. So of course it needs to explain basic concepts like that. Can you honestly say that 90% of readers wouldn't fall for the same trap? If they do fall for this, then it was a poor cooking instruction. At least at the level of 'cooking for dummiez'. If you cannot correctly communicate what is supposed to be done, then it is a poor instruction.

[@TheCyberwoman]

+Lemeres Her book isn't a cooking for dummies book. I won't defend it as good, cause its not, but I do think people are mistaking what it is. Look at her, she's an old school Betty Crocker style cook, that's why the recipes are so bland. Her version of a dummy cook is someone who can't be bothered with a bordelaise sauce on the Sunday roast, and just discovered canned gravy. She assumes that every wife using her book has a basic knowledge of cooking, and they're just looking for some short cuts. However it's marketed, that's the mindset she wrote it in. Does it make it a more acceptable cook book, not really, cause they're still crappy versions of already outdated recipes.

[@starchild7843]

Should of added a little cornstarch and it would stiffened up and help dry it up a little

[@to2burger]

Wouldn't it make more sense to hear it all up or just burn the cookbook and go for takeout?

[@AuroDHikoshi]

"Simply DUMP the book in the bin ..."

[@zh84]

+Cooro “Snow” Fox That is a lot simpler than following the recipe.

[@AuroDHikoshi]

zh84 Half of the recipes from the look of them don't need the book and you just throw stuff together...

[@Mr.Mcclane]

Hearing you chew is like the sound of 1000 souls of angry otters crying!!!!!!

[@alpharun3824]

after eating a dump dinner its fitting to take an after dinner dump XD HAHA

[@koroconnell]

Your "angry british dad" side came out during this video 😂😂

[@88Hyo]

to be fair, those don't look like they would taste awful...but if you ate that shit for dinner every day you'd be morbidly obese or dead in a week.

[@BigDaddyBland87]

I was kinda hoping he would test the pizza one...more of this please

[@Flamingbob25]

"It's not a dinner" why do you keep saying this?? like what makes it not a dinner?!?

[@ducttapeengineer]

there's no veg; and no, fried corn chips do not count as veg

[@Flamingbob25]

Then pair it with a salad, or steamed broccoli or something? Like a steak isn't dinner by that standard, either (though I think its a silly standard.)

[@ybunnygurl]

+Tom Bosley Experience well then you should spend some time in the United States where tomato ketchup counts as a vegetable in kids school lunches; it's not a condiment it's a vegetable!

[@PosthumanHeresy]

If vegetables are required for it to be dinner, I've had less than 300 dinners in my entire life.

[@Evelina_412]

Ikr? Everything you eat at dinner time is a bloody dinner...

[@rwhp9789]

tor - TEE - yah. This video is hysterical. Too bad I found it after I purchased the Dump Cake books (yes, all three of them) after watching the infomercials. Oh well, at least I'll know who has sympathy for me when the recipes go horribly wrong. Plus, I think I'll put tape over Cathy's photos on the fronts of the books. You've given me nightmares that she'll sneak out and steal my soul.

[@MsArion246]

The new HowToBasic channel

[@kiraworthington]

do the dump cookoff. love watching you cook these things so fun.

[@Redmoonblade]

"It's not a dinner!" In america it is.

[@leshrac369]

I love that it makes a big deal about no extra prepping or precooking, but it has recipies that require precooked chicken.

[@alopexau]

Tacko? Nat-cho? Tor-till-a? Argh.

[@rayshog]

Are you going to do a Dump Dinners contest like last time? Because I would love to join in on that! Also, The reason the Taco Cheese Ball was soggy was because you used the wrong cream cheese and cheddar, as well as, not draining the tomatoes enough. Another thing is that Nachos are usually layered: Tortilla Chips, Cheese, Chicken (or whichever meat you want), and repeatedly layered until you're out of ingredients, after that, the green onions go on top and are baked with the rest of the nachos until the cheese has melted. People sometimes season the meat when they cook it for nachos. The way you did it is fine, I guess, but it just irked me a bit. Sorry for the long post. Great video though!

[@katherine8966]

Jesus no wonder American has such an obesity crisis.

[@pkmn1260]

"do you need to put cheese in everything" yes, Mike, yes you do!

[@McSquiddington]

Looks like a cookbook for the hopelessly single, diabetic and generally uncreative on the culinary level. I can have a steak-and-veggies meal done in twenty minutes. If you don't have that much time in your life and need some excuse to throw anything into a cooking pan and set it to Broil - I don't know what to tell you. Plus, I'm kind of reminded of how some of my American friends consider decent cuisine to involve copious amounts of cheese, bacon and nacho shards... Ever heard of "porcupine balls"? It's basically a whole day's worth of sodium and dairy intake in a single meal. Unbalanced much?

[@NightridewithNikki]

I don’t know why but I like the container that the sour cream cake in, like the actual container, that stands out to me for some reason

[@ThatsGoldJerry575]

Your first problem was buying "light" cream cheese

[@TheCyberwoman]

Yes, a cheese ball like that is a real thing. I'd have drained the tomatoes, and Pat them dry with a paper towel, and sprinkled the chips instead of rolled it. Still wouldn't have been great, I prefer a good homemade queso, or layered dip. Heres the thing about Cathy. Her recipes haven't made it out of the 50's . These are "easy" versions of bland Betty Crocker dinners. You know, back when they only boiled chicken, and oregano was considered exotic. I make "dump" style casseroles all the time. Usually I just make them up with what's in the freezer lol, BUT if I were to get inspiration from this tortilla chip casserole, I'd add calabacitas (mexican style squash), a can of tomatoes, seasoning, and red chili sauce. In New Mexico you can find really great frozen red chili in every grocery store, but everywhere else I'd probably just use canned enchilada sauce. THAT would make it a dinner.

[@ZipplyZane]

Hate to tell you this, but as a Low Middle Class American in the South, I've had several casseroles like this. It mixes the American casserole with more Texmex ingredients.

[@foxman105]

yaaaaay! You should seriously do more of these. By the way, was Kathy Mitchel in prison? This looks like something an inmate makes. Don't forget warm shower water!

[@DarkestVampire92]

Mike. Week on Dump Dinners please. The challange there is to get through the week without either throwing up, or throwing the book out of the window.

[@gwennorthcutt421]

oh my god, my mom told me about how my grandma would make those "porcupine meatballs". it's just regular meatballs but with rice in it, making it bristly. that's depression era cooking right there

[@edwardseditor]

Over here in the states, the pepper jack is white and the cheddar is yellow. (Mostly. Vermont excepted on the cheddar)

[@jimballard1186]

Mr. Jeavons, I assure you, in the parts of America where we speak with Cathy Mitchell's accent, that chicken nacho recipe absolutely counts as a dinner.