Hot diggety dog! It’s Wiener Wednesday!
I’m closing out this month of wieners with just that–a hot diggety dog. This recipe is from Australian Cooking for Today, edited by Anne Marshall.
Here is the cookbook:
Here is Margot sitting on the cookbook:
I was thinking about it and apparently I am on a bit of an Australian kick–remember, last week’s wieners were Supper Surprise Oz Kebabs.
Question: What do you associate with Australia?
Me: Kangaroos. Koalas. Olivia Newton John. Surfing. Vegemite. The Australian swim team.
Anyone else with me on that?
The 2000 swim team and Ian “The Thorpedo” Thorpe breaking world records and the USA’s winning streak in the men”s freestyle relay? Well, it was, like, a really big deal.
Anyway, back to the hot dog.
From the “Children’s Party Menu” chapter.
Let’s face it–I’m starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel when it comes to frankfurter recipes I can find in my cookbooks. I mean, how many times can I wrap bacon around a wiener?
In defense of the Hot Diggety Dog, I was intrigued by the use of cottage cheese and chives.
That’s a change of pace.
Cottage cheese is one of those foods that I forget that I like until I have it but I don’t think I’d ever want to buy an entire carton of it, because I feel like it would go bad before I ate it all.
Anyway, I wrapped them in the bacon and broiled them.
Overall not bad.
I was having a moment of reflection and I think that the Hot Diggety Dog is a metaphor for 2020.
Why?
The cheese filling just disappeared without a trace…as did the past 5 months.
It was there. I know it was there. There’s a picture of it being there. But it is gone.
We can’t get that back. We can’t magically make the cheese un-melt. We can’t go back in time and have a mulligan on the spring and summer.
Did any of it ever exist in the first place?
I don’t even know any more, man. I don’t.
In case you were curious as to what the Alaska Express on the menu is:
And now to either get this INTO or OUT of your head:
CLASSIC
LOL! THIS made me LAUGH! Cottage cheese making an appearance at a CHILDREN’S Party?!?! Me thinks it would be Much More APPROPRIATE being served at a Senior’s Party! I have NEVER met a small child who actually liked cottage cheese! And, what is up with that Alaska Express photo?! those gingerbread men look TERRIFIED! I am starting to think the person who put together this children’s menu doesn’t actually LIKE children.
Ancient grain hot dog buns? If I want to be fancy, I just get the ones made out of potato flour. They’re much better.
The cottage cheese may have been so wet that it evaporated in the oven. Just a guess. Margot looks very nice on the cookbook. Hood makes cottage cheese with chives mixed into it, which is so yummy on its own that I eat it by itself and forget to make it into anything like baked pasta, which I think would taste good.
Where the hell did the filling go? That’s so weird. The Alaska Express is really cute. I’m also wondering what the Cheese Pictures are — did the book included a picture of the Pictures?
Now I want hotdogs for dinner. And bacon. Always bacon. And, of course a Margot to hold my book open for me — my foster kittens are too small and their mamakitty is probably too tired.
So weird about the cottage cheese. Also, the past 5 months….
Maybe they should rename these Abracadabra Dogs, because of their magic disappearing act. And since I don’t like cottage cheese, this may be the perfect cottage cheese recipe for me to try. In any case, I now have to go research just exactly what diggity means. Thanks for a fun Wiener Wednesday month!
NO DIGGITY!!!!!! That is fantastic. I jumped on my desk here at the office and started dancin’ like crazy. They had to come in and pull me down. Good thing I didn’t have to be in Court today. No Diggity.