Back for the fourth mutha et-reet time, with another installment of quick meal ideas that we provide for your consuming pleasure! If you missed any of the last three, click here to check them out.
These next two ideas are not complete meals, but you can use them to provide a quick snack, or match them up with another side and make your own complete meal.
The second greatest hot dog ever!
1) The Greatest Hot Dog ever! – Yeah, that’s right, I said it. I will beat any hot dog in the biz. And this is not hard at all. I have seen the gross videos of how hot dogs are made. But when I cook up these wieners and stuff them in my mouth… uhh… I mean… no… oh man. Bottom line, I could care less about how these mish-mash sticks of meaty goodness are compiled when I taste how good they are the way I cook them. Like I said, very simple. Pop the hot dogs in the microwave for 30 seconds. You do this to cook the inside. While they are nuking, place a small frying pan on the stove, on high, with a fair amount of olive oil. The olive oil will heat up and have a watery consistency. When the dogs are done their radiation treatment, throw them in the pan. Roll them around in the pan so the oil covers the hot dogs. The oil will heat up and start flying EVERYWHERE! Well, it’s not too bad, but I had to say it so you don’t sew me later because of your fresh new arm burns. Stay at the stove and constantly move the hot dogs around. Keep them rotating. If you let them sit there, they will burn. Eventually, as you are rolling them, they will turn a real light tan color. Now this is up to your discretion how long you want to keep them cooking. Remember, the insides have already been cooked, so putting them in the olive oil and frying them is only adding flavor. If you want a charred dog, go ahead and leave them in. If you don’t, like me, remove them when you start seeing that light tan color as you roll them. I like to throw them in a bun, but I have eaten them without one. I also don’t like to add anything to my hot dogs, so I turn my nose up at whoever offers me ketchup or mustard, I like ‘em all naturalé.
Get it? Imitation crab. No? Nevermind.
2) Imitation Crab Meat – You know what I’m talking about. It’s that stuff in the seafood section of your local grocery store that looks like plastic food. White on the inside, the fakest looking orange pigment on the outside. Now it comes cold, and doesn’t look too appetizing in the packaging. But if you put it on the stove and add a few small ingredients, this faux seafood can be a delightful treat. Clean off that frying pan from The Greatest Hot Dog ever! and throw it back on the stove. Get a little butter and drop it in the pan. Set the heat to medium and throw in enough crab meat to cover the bottom of the pan. Cover and let it heat up. After a few minutes, take off the lid and add garlic salt and parsley flakes. My Italian father, who is very emotional when it comes to his food (he once took my dinner away from me and wouldn’t let me eat when I mentioned that his chicken may have been a little undercooked), finds it very inappropriate when I tell him I use garlic salt and parsley flakes rather than garlic cloves and fresh parsley leaves. I think they taste the same. He tells me I’m a disgrace to the family. It’s your call. Let it cook for a few minutes, stirring more often then not to make sure the crab meat doesn’t cook to the pan. I like to cook it until the edges are slightly brown. You’re finished. You can eat this alone, or spice up a pasta dish by adding it to the mix.
Quick, easy, cheap. That’s how I roll.
Eat it, thank me later!
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