Monday, December 7, 2009

Bacon Burger Dawgs & Fromage au Fudge!!!

This past Friday evening for our Family Fun Night (this is the night that we cook special meals and play family games or do crafts), Kami made Bacon Burger Dawgs. Basically, you take a hotdog and wrap in it ground beef. Then you wrap the whole things in bacon. I really think these are supposed to be grilled. However, since it is winter time and we do not own a grill, Kami cooked them under the broiler in the oven. We did not know how long to cook them so we cooked them extra long to be sure they were done.

When we thought they were done, we put them on hotdog buns with all the fixin's. However, there were two problems: 1)We cooked they way too long and they were very dry..... 2)As we began to eat them, we noticed that the casings on the hotdogs were very tough and hard to chew. I mentioned to Kami that I thought there was plastic on the hotdogs. She immediately said that she bought "skin-on" hotdogs for it said so right on the box. After a lot of chewing, grinding, and 1/2 a hotdog later, Josh exclaimed, "There's writing on my hotdog!" Well, we all looked and all of our hotdogs had white writing on them. We could tell exactly what the ingredients were, the name of the hotdog brand, and it big white letters, "Remove plastic before eating!"

We now realize that "skin-on" hotdogs in French Canada is not the same "skin-on" hotdogs in America! If you look closely at the precooked Bacon Burger Dawgs in the picture below, you can see the plastic on the hotdogs and the white writing on the plastic!!! They were very big, and here Elisabeth is about to take her first bite of "Bacon Burger Dawg au Plastic!"

One of Kami's family traditions growing up is December 6th gifts. This comes from a German tradition where the children would place their shoes next to the door on Dec 5th and the next morning, miraculously a small present would be in or next to their shoes. Somehow, Kami and her sisters talked her parents into starting this tradition......extra presents.....they are pretty smart! Kami has brought this tradition into our family and she bought the kids each a little ($1) present to put in their shoes. I didn't want her to feel left out so I bought Kami (Hallelujah!!!...it was on sale!) Fromage au Fudge (Cheese Fudge)!!! Yes it really in chocolate cheese...and yes it does sound disgusting but it is actually very good.

In the picture below is the raspberry chocolate cheese...I think it was our favorite!

Until Next Time...............