chili dogs!!!!

[peacherina]

Tonight is an easy night for me. We are having Chilli dogs!! My favorite chili to use is BUNKER HILL. IT IS THE BOMB!! I first tasted it at one of those sample tables at Sam's Club. We are gonna have Chili dogs with chips. Oh and Iced tea. Gotta love iced tea!

[spiceplace]

About a month ago I found an excellent chicken hot dog at a local organic food store. The name is Shelton's cooked uncured chicken franks. No nitrates or nitrites. Since they're uncured they have to stay frozen until time to cook. But they're delicious and not loaded with fat.

I took a nutrition class is college and the professor called hot dogs 'fat dogs'. I'm sure they're okay for occasional consumption, but the 36% fat per dog scared be after that class. The chicken dogs state 10% dv per dog and they are smaller then regular hot dogs and they do make a killer chili dog.

A friend of ours swears by the Omaha Steaks hot dogs. But at $10.00 for 4, we weren't impressed. Omaha Steaks does offer them for free with a fillet Mignon order.

[peacherina]

whoa that is alot of fat , thanks for that information

[ainjel]

We buy chicken dogs all the time now. I haven't been brave enough to try them yet as I don't even like hot dogs. CostCo seems to have different varieties available so we buy them there and it's nice to be able to tell the four year old, "Here, have a hot dog." and not worry about all the fat in regular hot dogs.

[muffinman]

and it's not just the fat in the hot dogs. The sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite are both unknown health risks. But they prevent many food bourne diseases so are allowed to be used by the FDA. These are known generally known as saltpeter.

[aeiou]

Peacherina, if you love chili dogs you really must try our version of chili dogs. We make a batch of chili using French's Original Chili-O seasoning mix and have chili one night for dinner. The French's Chili-O is the easiest and best tasting prepared chili seasoning mix that we have ever had. The next night we use the left over chili to make chili dogs. We do recommend omitting the kidney beans if you wan to make the chili dogs with the leftovers. The kidney beans are a bit lumpy for the chili dogs.

[peacherina]

thanks for that tip about the french's I will have to try that.

[r8rpwr]

A college friend of mine always used to say, if a chili dog is made right, it cannot be picked up and must be eaten with a fork. Sounds about right to me.

[BagCSC]

I agree...it seems that (even though usually bad for you) sloppy/messy food coincides with great taste. If you cant pick it up, then is must be good...like a burger that is too messy to pick up.

[peacherina]

you know on a show one day they were showing the best burgers in America and I saw a couple that were like that really messy. They looked so good.