FAST FOOD FRIDAY

MORNING EVERYONE

Finally the weekend.. this weekend seems to have taken so long to get here... Well warm enough this morning to have my tea outside before the workers next door arrive... Grumpy is taking me out for supper tonight with some other good friends at the Youbou Pub... Should be fun.. then going to go to a Potluck at Cowichan Lake on Saturday and then a cruise on Sunday.. Busy weekend but should be fun..

Grilled

Bacon-Wrapped

Stuffed

Hot Dogs

Ingredients

1 teaspoon ketchup

1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

4 large hot dogs, knockwurst, or kielbasa

1/2 ounce cheddar cheese, cut into long sticks

2 Tbsp chopped onion

1 cup refrigerated sauerkraut, drained, roughly chopped

4 slices bacon

Vegetable oil

4 long hot dog buns

Method

1 Prepare your grill for direct medium high heat.

2 Mix together the ketchup and mustard in a small bowl. In a separate bowl, mix the sauerkraut with the chopped onion, set aside. Slice open the hot dogs, down the center, lengthwise, forming a deep pocket in each, but not cutting all the way through. Coat the inside of each hot dog with the mustard ketchup mixture.

3 Place a strip of cheese deep within the pocket of each hot dog. Top with sauerkraut and onions. Enclose the cheese at the ends with the sauerkraut mixture as well, so that no cheese is exposed (otherwise it will drip out when cooking).

4 Wrap a strip of bacon around each stuffed hot dog, securing with toothpicks at each end. Make sure you wrap tight enough so that the stuffing stays in, but not so tight so that when the hot dog expands the bacon would tear.

5 Coat your grill surface with vegetable oil so that the hot dogs don't stick. If you have a grill screen (a screen with smaller holes so that small pieces of whatever you're cooking don't fall through the grill), you can use it, just coat it with vegetable oil first and pre-heat for a couple of minutes. Place the stuffed hot dogs on the grill, stuffing side down. Grill for 2 minutes, until the bacon on that side is cooked, turn the hot dogs a quarter turn and grill for a couple more minutes. Continue to grill for a few minutes each on all sides until the bacon is cooked. Close the lid of the grill in between turnings to help with the cooking.

6 During the last minute of cooking, open up the hot dog buns and place them open-side down on the grill to lightly toast.

7 Remove the hot dogs and buns from the grill. Remove the toothpicks from the hot dogs, place them in the buns and serve.

Makes 4 stuffed hot dogs.

Nothing is better then a good hotdog... It seems that hotdogs are only eaten at Hockey Arenas, Ball Parks and Race Tracks , well now you can have them the next time you start up your barbacue or head off to the campsite..

Enjoy

Cheers

Granny