Out-Of-The-Ballpark Recipes for Extraordinary Hot Dogs
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Out-Of-the-Ballpark recipes fOr extraOrdinary hOt dOgs holly schmidt & allan penn © 2014 by Holly Schmidt and Allan Penn Photography © 2014 by Hollan Publishing, Inc. A Hollan Publishing, Inc. Concept Published by Running Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions Printed in China This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without written permission from the publisher. Books published by Running Press are available at special discounts for bulk purchases in the United States by corporations, institutions, and other organizations. For more information, please contact the Special Markets Department at the Perseus Books Group, 2300 Chestnut Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 19103, or call (800) 810-4145, ext. 5000, or e-mail [email protected]. ISBN 978-0-7624-4727-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2013945766 E-book ISBN 978-0-7624-5177-7 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Digit on the right indicates the number of this printing Cover and interior design by Jason Kayser Edited by Jordana Tusman Typography: Museo and House Script Running Press Book Publishers 2300 Chestnut Street To Caleb, Owen, Griffin, Charlotte, Nick, and Jax— Philadelphia, PA 19103-4371 like everything we do, this book is dedicated Visit us on the web! www.offthemenublog.com to you. Each one of you eats hot dogs like a boss. cOntents Sloppy Dog . 49 Identity Crisis Dog . 51 Thanksgiving Dog . 55 Boston Terrier . 56 About Hot Dogs and Sausages . 7 Chicken-and-Waffle Dog . 58 Wake Up and Smell the Wiener . 61 Homemade Condiments and Buns . 13 Hot Dog Buns . 15 Show Dogs: Wieners Dressed to Impress . 63 Buttermilk Biscuit Buns . 17 Salty Dog . 65 Popovers . 20 Caesar Dog . 68 Cornbread . 21 Horn Dog . 71 Ketchup . 23 Derby Dog . 73 Barbecue Sauce . 26 Twisted Dog . 75 Traditional Spicy Mustard . 28 Mardi Gras Dog . 77 Irish Whiskey Mustard . 30 Apple Pie Dog . 81 Honey Mustard . 30 BLT Dog . 84 Bourbon-Brown Sugar Mustard . 30 Wiener Wellington . 87 Slumdogs: Down ‘n’ Dirty Wieners . 31 Dogs that Bite: Spicy Wieners Gone Wild . 89 Porked . 33 HOT Dog . 91 Barkin’ Breakfast . 37 Soul Dog . 93 Drunk Dog . 39 Cowboy Up! Dog . 96 Hushed Puppy . 42 Wiener Au Poivre . 99 Junkyard Dog . 46 Buffalo Dog . 102 Hair of the Dog . 105 Dogbreath Dog . 106 Nacho Mama’s Dog . 109 Dogs with Passports: Wild Wieners From Around the World . 113 Weenie Rangoon . 115 Bark Bourguignon . 118 Fifi . 121 About Tiki Terrier . 122 German Shepherd’s Pie . 125 hOt dOgs Quesadilla Dog . 131 Chi-Wow-Wow . 133 Paella Dog . 134 & Rasta Dog . 139 General Tso’s Wiener . 141 Phyllo Fido . 145 sausages Lasagna Dog . 146 Formulas for Metric Conversions . 150 Acknowledgments . 152 Index . 154 EVERyoNE LoVES HoT DoGS. EVERYONE . When we told people we were writing a hot been sometime in the late 1800s. They quickly became a popular staple at baseball dog cookbook, without exception we heard, “I love hot dogs!” This book is a collection games and fairs, because they were easy to eat, inexpensive, and totally delicious. The of over-the-top recipes for America’s favorite food. Some are easy and quick to put positive association most people have with hot dogs and baseball games, carnivals, and together, others are more labor-intensive (but worth it!)—and we’re pretty sure most of backyard barbecues only serves to solidify and heighten their exalted place in our culinary them haven’t been done before. We hope you dazzle your friends with your wiener cre - culture. Everybody has a happy hot dog memory. ations and have as much fun making them as we have. What is a hOt dOg? the Miracle that is the tuBe steak Hot dogs are traditionally made from pork and/or beef, spices like garlic and paprika, As we were developing the recipes, we learned something that surprised us: Hot dogs, salt, and preservatives like sodium nitrite. The meat mixture is put into casings (natural while delicious on their own, are the perfect foil for a wide variety of foods, from fried casings, which are sheep intestines—yes—or synthetic casings that are removed after clams to Caesar salad to quesadillas. Turns out, the smoky, salty flavor and juicy, greasy cooking to make “skinless” dogs) and cooked. When you buy them at the grocery store, snap of a hot dog serves to enhance almost anything it touches, in much the same way they are actually ready to eat, but most people prefer to cook them again before bacon improves dishes from Brussels sprouts to braised chicken. Rather than competing eating, to heat them up and caramelize the exterior. Hot dogs taste good no matter with the sophisticated flavors we threw at them, hot dogs rose to the occasion and made how you cook them, and we leave that up to you in our recipes. Want to grill the dog? them better, whether it was the peppercorns and brandy cream sauce of Wiener au Poivre Awesome. Prefer to throw it in a pan on the stove? Fantastic. Whatever makes your (page 99), or the delicious apples and thyme of the Apple Pie Dog (page 81). skirt fly up is fine by us. the histOry Of the hOt dOg types Of hOt dOgs The hot dog was born in Frankfurt, Germany, sometime around the 13th century, where Today, there are many different kinds of hot dogs on the market, and much regional they were served at imperial coronations. (See, we knew hot dogs were the food of kings!) variation. A lot of hot dogs are made by local, often family-owned businesses, and fla - Nobody is sure how or when they made their way to America, but it appears to have vors and styles can vary widely from state to state. Here in New England, Kayem Foods, 8 9 Inc. (maker of Fenway Franks) dogs reign supreme, and in New york, many of the most- slaW dOg: Popular in the South, a slaw dog is topped with a creamy coleslaw that may loved hot dogs are made by Marathon Enterprises, Inc., owner of Sabrett. In Chicago, or may not include chili or barbecue sauce. the famous Chicago dog is an all-beef, natural casing hot dog. your local grocery store probably sells a few different local brands of natural-casing and skinless franks, as well red dOg: As far as we know, you can only find these neon-red dogs in Maine, where they as the big national brands like oscar Mayer, Ball Park, and Boar’s Head. are also known as “red snappers,” due to their natural casings that snap when you bite Hot dog preference is truly subjective; if you don’t already have a favorite, we rec - into them. The color doesn’t affect the taste, and kids love it. ommend you try a few different kinds until you find one that you really love. our recipes will work with any kind of dog, so use your own judgment about skinless versus natural kOsher dOg: Popular in New york and New Jersey, kosher dogs are all-beef and usually casing. Sometimes you want the snap of the natural casing, and sometimes you don’t. topped with sauerkraut and smeared with mustard. Any of the recipes in this cookbook can be made with a turkey dog or a veggie dog, too—we don’t roll that way, but you can if you want to! chili dOg: out West, people like their all-beef hot dogs topped with meat chili, chopped The recipes in Wieners Gone Wild! are all our own creations, cooked up in our studio onions, and usually shredded cheddar. in Gloucester, Massachusetts, over many months of experimentation. We intentionally excluded classic regional specialties like the Chicago dog, because recipes for those are hOt Buns! readily available in a lot of other places. We wanted this book to be a collection of unique hot dog wonders, or at least new twists on old favorites, and we hope we’ve succeeded. Here at WGW world headquarters, we love a homemade bun—whether it’s a standard But to satisfy your curiosity, the following is a quick rundown of how America likes yeast roll, a fresh, buttery biscuit, a slab of cornbread, a crisp popover, or a twist of home - its famous dogs: made pretzel—you just can’t beat bread you make yourself. That said, more often than not, we’re throwing our wieners onto store-bought rolls, what with the demands of work chicagO dOg: An all-beef hot dog served in a steamed poppy seed bun and blanketed with and family. So we’re giving you our recipes for homemade buns for those times when chopped raw onions, sweet pickle relish, sport peppers (small, green, medium-hot pickled you really want to crank up the mojo.