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08 February 2013

Friday's Dinner Experiment.

Friday is co-op day and I like to have something cooking in the crock pot to help me avoid the lure of take out pizza from Colasessanos. 

Today was hot dog day.  A real favorite of the boys.  I have cooked hot dogs and sauce together in the crock pot before - it's really not rocket science.  But the boys don't like sauce.  They want just ketchup.  Then it came to me:

That's partially frozen hot dogs and a broken off chunk of frozen hot dog sauce.  I put the sauce in an oven proof Pyrex bowl, lined the hot dogs around it like little soldiers and put it on warm at 10 am. 

I wasn't sure if I would come home to success or a pot full of hot dogs, sauce and glass. 

When I came home at 4 pm, look what I found:

It worked! 

I added a can of peaches and some chips and dinner was on the table in well under ten minutes.
Not too shabby!

6 comments:

Rachel E. said...

Hey! It helps to think outside the box, doesn't it?

Charli said...

I'm probably a little too excited that this worked.

Maria said...

Did u add water to the bottom of the crock or no?

Marsha said...

That's awesome!

Selena said...

So glad that worked for you!

My crock pot is a big one -- either 6 or 8 quarts -- and it cooks everything in half the recommended time (I cooked a whole chicken in just over 4 hours). It bums me out that I can't put something in a leave all day without coming home to charcoal. :(

On the upside, it's boss if I need to feed an army. :)

p.s. What's up with word verification??? Are you getting spammed?

Charli said...

Maria, no water in the crock, just the hot dogs.
Selena, you need a new crock pot! Mine is the 8qt and it cooks great. And yes, after over a year of no word verification I am getting a TON of spam all of a sudden that the spam filters aren't catching. :(