Hot Dog Challenge- 7 Layer Dog

Jeff proposed the challenge and all but one of us has answered...

For my entry think taco dip meets a Nathan's hot dog.  On a tangent, after thinking about this and maybe bc everything in my life right now circles back to kids, is that if you make these kind of dogs for kids they will love them, sorry I got off track. 

Anyway, I heated some chorizo refried beans, yes I said chorizo (shout out to Urban), taco sour cream, pepperjack cheese, lettuce, salsa, and a hint of cilantro because I love it. 

Ingredients:

2 Nathans Dogs
2 Buns
1 can of Chorizo refried beans (or regular for you veggie lovers out there)
Sour cream
Taco Seasoning
Smoked Paprika
Chopped Lettuce
Pepperjack cheese
Salsa
Cilantro

Mix the sour cream, paprika and taco seasoning to taste in a bowl. Smear the refried beans on one side of the bun and sour cream mixture on the other, layer the dog, cheese, lettuce, salsa and cilantro and enjoy!

We also made a 7 layer dip with the left over ingredients and enjoyed it late night after beer making with Fritos.  Can't let all that goodness go to waste!

Hot Dog Challenge - Big Green Monster

Jeff, are YOU ready for a throwdown?

Jeff laid out a hot dog challenge, and on Saturday, Romer and I answerd that challenge. Here is my entry. It consists of a grilled Nathan's all beef dawg (surprisingly delicious on its own), spicy tomato and green chili cream cheese, a freshly roasted pablano pepper, cilantro, and crushed fritos.

Ingredients:

2 dogs
2 buns
1 freshly roasted pablano (peeled and seeded)
cilantro
jalapenos
crushed fritos
1 packet cream cheese
1 10 oz can of tomatoes and green chilis
1 T sirracha

Mix last 3 ingredients to make a schmear. Spread schmear (yes, shcmear is a noun) on bun. Layer dog, more schmear, half of pablano, jalapenos, cliantro and fritos. Enjoy and then call Jeff and tell him how good it is.

Hot Dog Contest Anyone!?!?

Sooooo, I love hot dogs. No reason to hide it. Some of you out there may frown upon the lowly hot dog, being that it's bits and pieces of this and that. Well guess what... that's pretty much what every sausage or ground meat is, but I digress. Covered in chili, microwaved with ketchup, or hot off the grill with kraut, I don't discriminate. So if any of you think you're man enough, lets see those hot dogs!

Deep Fried Hot Dogs with Goat Cheese and Habanero Relish

So my entry in the contest, which I currently enter into without any known competitors, are these beauties. A never deep fried a hot dog, so I wanted to try it. Simp left some dank goat cheese at my house and I wanted to use. I like hot stuff, so this is what I came up with, think Tempest (you cool people out there know what I'm talking about.)

So basically I deep fried a couple Nathan's hot dogs, which turned out OK, I think I prefer grilled though. I topped them with some of that lovely goat cheese, some habanero relish I made (recipe to follow), and some crispy bits of bacon. Bottom line- these were pretty frickin good. In hindsight I could have added something with a little sweetness, such as mango ketchup or even a drizzle of honey. The habanero relish was quite fiesty and definitely regretted it the next day, much like the tempest.

Habanero Relish

2- Habaneros (less or more to your liking)

1/2- Red onion

2- Cloves Garlic

1/2 Red Bell pepper

1- teaspoon or so of sugar

2- tbls or so of white wine vinegar

salt

Add all the ingredients to a food processor and blend to your hearts content. Boom- Habanero relish.