Food Friday!

Last week I was making some veggie burgers.  They turned out well enough that I thought I would do something different with the "dough".  Something I love, but almost never eat, is a good hot dog. (Preferably a Kraut Dog like I used to eat at Der Wiernerschnitzel when I was in college.  They were the expensive dogs and cost a full twenty two cents at that time.)  We had some whole wheat hot dog buns in the freezer.  It occurred to me that we could make "dogs" as well as burgers!

So we did.  It was a  pretty successful project.

It was simply a matter of shaping the dough into a dog instead of a burger.  It worked pretty well, actually.  One of the better recipes which I will have to locate to share.  Any recipe would work if the texture was right, i.e. held together. 

These were baked in the oven on a Silpat-lined cookie sheet.  I did learn that you cannot use a soft silicon pancake turner to lift the burgers and dogs off the pan to flip over! (Half the burger was left on the Silpat.  R-r-r!)  Instead,  it was necessary to use a thin metal spatula, in this case, our offset frosting spatula. That worked perfectly!