Frank & Swiss Bites These Frank & Swiss Bites are an easy dinner, snack or treat. Made with smoked cheddar brats, your favorite bbq sauce, gruyere or swiss cheese and a tube of crescent rolls. These bake up in 15 to 18 minutes and make a great meal for busy nights. These are also perfect for game day or movie night. These are a little bit more elevated version of your typical pigs in a blanket. This recipe calls for 6 sausages, but you can certainly double the recipe because they go fast. The full recipe and step by step…
-
Continue ReadingAsian Inspired Hot Dogs These Asian inspired hot dogs inspired by Vietnamese Banh Mi Sandwiches. Banh Mi sandwiches are served on french bread with broiled meats and tangy, quick pickled veggies. This hot dog is an all beef hot dog, pickled cucumber, carrot and jalapeño with a sriracha mayo, green onions and cilantro. Served up on a brioche hot dog bun. They are the perfect combination of spicy, sweet, crunch and delicious. A fun twist on a classic frankfurter. Secondly, the full recipe is posted below. Feel free to print it! You can also use the Pinterest button to pin…
-
Continue ReadingChicago Style Hot Dogs Chicago Style Hot Dogs are a culinary classic. They also happen to cause the most controversy when it comes to my followers. A typical Chicago Style Hot Dog is made with an all beef hot dog, usually from the local Chicago brand Vienna Beef. The hot dog is usually steamed or boiled, served on a S. Rosens Mary Ann, Poppy Seed Bun. Chicago Style Hot Dogs are topped with: yellow mustard, onions, tomatoes, sport peppers, neon relish, celery salt and a pickle. The controversy comes from the people who disagree on the brand of hot dogs…
-
Continue ReadingMini Chicago Style Hot Dogs Before I get into this recipe I have to warn you that these are addicting. Once you make these Mini Chicago Style Hot Dogs, your friends and family are going to ask you to make them all the time. What I love about these Mini Chicago Style Hot Dogs is that you can serve them as a build your own appetizer or dress them up for your guests with all the fixings. This recipe is simple to make but needs to be made right when you want to serve it. Mini Chicago Style Hot Dogs…
-
Continue ReadingThinking of things to make for dinner can sometimes make me want to rip my hair out. I get complaints of being sick of the same old things I make over and over and yet there are times I try something new and no one wants to eat it because it is unfamiliar. The other day I was in need of a Tough Day Dinner and I remembered some interesting hot dogs I saw at Aldi. They were Bavarian Style Hot Dogs. They looked lighter in color to your typical hot dog and they were also longer and skinnier. I…
-
Continue ReadingI grew up in a family where we rarely ate out. We love to cook so if we had a craving for something we made it ourselves at home. Once in a great while, an occasion to eat out would come up and we would go to the local “Greek” Restaurant. I grew up on the Southwest side of Chicago, near Midway Airport and these “Greek” places were on every couple of corners. This is not the kind of Greek Restaurant you are thinking of, there was little, if any, actual Greek Food. The restaurants in our neighborhood were just…
-
Continue Reading
This year I was given the privilege of a Media Pass to attend Chicago Gourmet presented by Bon Appetit. This incredible festival has been taking place in Chicago’s iconic Millenium Park for ten years! If you aren’t familiar, it is a food fest like no other. Famous Chef’s, upscale food samples, cocktails, and the wine, oh my gosh, the wine. Besides the food and booze, there is live entertainment, photo booths, giveaways and plenty of comfortable places to sit, relax and enjoy the scene. Chef Demos from Celebrity Chefs like Chicago favorites, Stephanie Izard and Rick Bayless . Who are…
You must be logged in to post a comment.