Recipe of the Day

[patgund]

Basically a beer-battered corn dog. Stuffed with cheese. Wrapped in bacon.

Bacon, Cheese and Beer Dog

Ingredients:

1 hot dog
1 slice of thick-cut bacon
1 can of spray cheese
1 can beer (It doesn't matter what kind, but we recommend something dark. Corona probably isn't a good idea)
1 cup flour
Oil for frying

Instructions:
This one is a little work-intensive, so be ready to buckle down. First take the center out of the hot dog with an apple corer, if you have access to one. If not, just cut out the middle with a knife.

Fill the cavity with the spray cheese and use the hot dog you removed from the middle as a cap to keep the cheese in.

Wrap the bacon around the hot dog and deep-fry for two to four minutes or until bacon is cooked. Dab them dry with a paper towel (so the batter will stick).

Mix the beer with the flour until it reaches a thick, but lump-free consistency.

Dip the dogs in the batter, coating the dog completely, and deep-fry on high heat for two to three minutes or until brown and deadly.

NOTE: Don't fry them too long or all of the cheese will explode out into the oil. That's very bad.

Another take (with pictures) here:

http://www.thestranger.com/blog/2007/03/post_135

Comments

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Mmm. That sounds really, really tasty. Maybe using a good sharp cheddar instead of the spray cheese though, but damn. :-D

[aeddie.livejournal.com]

Using a Hebrew National jumbo sized dog would make it easier to get cheese sticks into it. Then a nice applewood smoked bacon. And a stout, gotta be a good thick stout and only enough to make the batter not the whole can.

[usqueba.livejournal.com]

That sounds REALLY good even though my arterys are clogging as I type :)'

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

Scalzi beat you by 31 minutes. Unless you took this from him. Yes, I am extremely tempted to eat one.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Who???

(found it on Fark, BTW)

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

You're not familiar with John Scalzi?
He's an incredibly cool blogger/published SF author who's won a Campbell Award, is running as a write-in candidate for President of SFWA and hit #2 blog for one day by posting pictures of bacon taped to his cat.

Blog: The Whatever (http://www.scalzi.com/whatever).

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Ah. Just read "Old Man's War", don't read his blog

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

You know, all this needs is peanut butter :-)

[ophy.livejournal.com]

Ow. My Arteries.

[silkensteel.livejournal.com]

Wow. I find myself wondering just how bad the vegan version would be.

Next, I wonder about doing this with the following variations:

Polish sausage; swiss cheese, pastrami. Don't deep-fry the pastrami-wrapped dog before batter-dipping.

Hebrew National, Cream Cheese, Lox. Don't deep fry before batter-dipping.

Food for thought, more or less.