Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
30 Different Hot Dog Toppings
Chicago Dogs
For a taste of Chicago, try topping your dog with dill pickle, cucumber spears, sliced tomatoes, sweet relish, pickled peppers (a must!), diced onion and mustard. For the final authentic touch, sprinkle with celery salt!Get The Recipe:
Vidalia Dogs
Make some quick, crispy buttermilk-drenched onion rings (with a hint of paprika), and you’ve got a perfect accompaniment for your next hot dog!Get The Recipe:
Low-Country Dogs
Take your palate to South Carolina by making these Low-Country dogs, topped with Old Bay boiled potatoes and corn and served up in mini-potato buns.Get The Recipe:
Corn Dogs
These Corn Dogs are a little lighter than your typical boardwalk or fair variety, made with cornmeal and milk, and fried in vegetable oil.Get The Recipe:
Taco Dogs
Go for a fun twist on your average hot dog and try these Taco Dogs, by grilling halved hot dogs and serving in grilled tortillas, topped with all your favorite taco condiments.Get The Recipe:
Bruschetta Dogs
Amp up the style of your next cookout by serving grilled hot dogs in ciabatta buns and topping them with a bruschetta mixture of tomatoes, garlic, and basil.Get The Recipe:
Chimichanga Dogs
Deep-frying hot dogs wrapped in tortillas and finishing them off with melted cheddar, salsa, sour cream and jalapenos is a spicy way to change them up.Get The Recipe:
New York Street Dogs
Take the classic route and eat your hot dog with some spicy brown mustard and sauerkraut for a taste of New York City.Get The Recipe:
Pekingese Dogs
Named for the favored pets of the Chinese Imperial court, these beef hot dogs are fit to serve royalty, grilled with five-spice powder, brushed with hoisin, and topped with cucumbers, scallions, and plum sauce.Get The Recipe:
- Pekingese Dogs
Chili Cheese Dogs
For an easy favorite, top your grilled dogs with any leftover ground-beef chili and shredded sharp cheddar cheese.Get The Recipe:
Puppy Dogs
These kid-sized hot dog bites also make great appetizers or hors d’oeuvres, with just the right mixture of whimsy and comfort food familiarity.Get The Recipe:
Bacon-Wrapped Splitters
Scoring and frying the hot dogs leaves them crisp on the outside and juicy on the inside -- wrapping them in bacon first makes for a deliciously salty and crackling crust to the dog.Get The Recipe:
BBQ Dogs
Brushing your hot dogs with a little barbecue sauce before and during grilling gives them a great smoke flavor. Serve on toasted buns with coleslaw to enjoy a BBQ-style meal.Get The Recipe:
BLT Dogs
Toasting the buns helps this fried hot dog hold up to its BLT fillings; crispy, thick-cut bacon, mayonnaise, shredded lettuce and fresh diced tomatoes.Get The Recipe:
Frito Dogs
These Frito dogs combine two favorites -- nachos and hot dogs --for one beautiful bite, packed with chili, cheddar, jalapenos and crush Fritos for a salty finishing crunch.Get The Recipe:
Hog-Tied Cheese Dogs
Just like inside-out cheeseburgers, these hot dogs are stuffed with sharp cheddar, and kept closed with a strip of bacon. Grilled until crisp and topped with fried onions, they’re a juicy, cheesy dream come true.Get The Recipe:
California Dogs
If you’re looking to lighten up your next hot dog, try this refreshing twist: tofu dogs on whole-wheat buns, topped with avocado, cucumber, sprouts and shredded carrots.Get The Recipe:
Pizza Dogs
The Pizza Dog should appeal to all lovers of meatball heroes; the hot dogs are simmered in marinara sauce and spooned into warm buns before being topped with melting mozzarella and dried oregano.Get The Recipe:
Po'Boy Dogs
Take your taste buds on a trip to Louisiana with this hot dog, topped with remoulade or Creole mustard, shredded lettuce, and tangy pickled okra.Get The Recipe:
French Poodles
A decadent, upscale twist on the hot dog, topped these are served on a baguette and topped with melted brie, chopped cornichons and spicy Dijon mustard.Get The Recipe:
Jerk Chicken Dogs
Jamaican jerk seasoning goes onto these chicken dogs; throw on some mango chutney, spicy jalapenos, and a little mayonnaise for an excitingly vibrant flavor combination.Get The Recipe:
Siberian Huskies
Give your hot dogs a Russian-style twist by topping them off with a mix of potato salad, beet horseradish, and chopped hard-boiled eggs. A drizzle of Russian Dressing is a perfect finishing touch!Get The Recipe:
Hot Diggity Dogs
Hot Diggity Dog, indeed. These grilled hot dogs pack a powerful punch with spicy, shredded jalapeno jack cheese and sliced pickled jalapenos.Get The Recipe:
Sausage-and-Pepper Dogs
For a take on the classic Italian sausage and pepper sandwich, try sautéing halved hot dogs with peppers, onions and garlic, and sprinkling on a little cayenne and fennel.Get The Recipe:
Cuban Dogs
Traditional Cuban sandwiches are made with ham to begin with, so make an imaginative leap and try using split and griddled hot dogs layered on rolls with dill pickles, yellow mustard, and Swiss cheese.Get The Recipe:
Curry Dogs
Sweet and spicy, these grilled chicken dogs (sprinkled with curry powder) are topped with a thick puree of lime juice, brown sugar, dates, cumin and chili powder. Onions and cilantro finish them off with a fresh touch.Get The Recipe:
Onion-Smothered Dogs
Sauteed in ketchup, vinegar, cayenne and paprika until they’re caramelized and tangy, these onions make the perfect hot dog topping; for the onion lover, there’s simply no other way they should be made.Get The Recipe:
Boston Terriers
A sweet and savory mixture of sautéed onion, crispy bacon, and plump beans, simmered in a tangy sauce of ketchup, brown sugar, mustard and cider vinegar, is the star of this particular show.Get The Recipe:
Surf Dogs
Get ready to kick back and relax with this beach-bum style dog, grilled with teriyaki sauce and topped with a fresh pineapple, pepper and onion salsa.Get The Recipe:
Philly Dogs
For a fun spin on the Philly cheese steak, give these grilled hot dogs, smothered in cheese and sautéed peppers and onions, a try -- a dash of hot sauce perks the whole thing up.Get The Recipe:
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
City clears out hot dog carts on Lower Broad
City clears out hot dog carts on Lower Broad: Edwin “Skip” Link’s says hot dog cart vendors are being driven from their profitable locations on lower Broadway as the city cracks down on code.
Customers don’t just buy hot dogs from Edwin “Skip” Link. They buy an experience.
For the downtown Nashville lunch crowd, he offers to do their jobs if they’ll buy a $2 frank. At night, he lets drunks take pictures next to the slogan on his cart, a pun about meat and buns. He feigns indignation at anyone who raises an eyebrow: “I can’t help it if you have a dirty mind!”
The hot dogs and the shtick pay better than Link’s former six-figure job as a manufacturing supervisor – the one he lost when the Peterbilt plant closed in Madison. But lately, he and other hot dog vendors say their livelihood is being threatened by enforcement of the city’s sidewalk laws.
“No vending” signs began springing up on one corner after another just before Christmas, following the Skip’s Links hot dog cart, its owner claims, and driving him from lucrative Broadway locations to spots on Fourth Avenue or Church Street.
It’s arbitrary, Link says. Not at all, city officials respond.
“We are not making this up, we are simply enforcing the code,” said Mark Macy, Metro Public Works assistant director. “With more carts, there’s more emphasis on treating everybody fairly. … There’s an awareness that there is more regulation going on.”
He said his department is willing to take suggestions while working on a map that shows spots they can set up downtown and in outlying areas — where some vendors say they’ve been forced to move to make a living.
Nashville’s vendor code dates back to 1998 and is different from the regulations that apply to food trucks — which also were in dispute two years ago when the trucks began gaining popularity.
The vendor code requires carts to be 8 feet from the nearest building and 15 feet from fire hydrants, fire escapes, parking meters and other small structures.
That means there simply aren’t legal spots on Broadway’s sidewalks, Metro Police Sgt. John Borque said. There’s one trailer in a private parking lot on Broadway that complies.
Borque said unhappy vendors should contact their city council representatives if they want a different law. Until then, his officers must enforce the one they have to keep pedestrians moving on crowded sidewalks.
“It’s not as important as protecting people from violent crime, but we are charged with enforcing all the laws,” he said.
Link, who lives in Hendersonville, graduated from Belmont College in 1968 with a business degree and marketing minor. He spent much of his career with GE and later with truck manufacturer Peterbilt. When the Madison plant closed, he briefly went into manufacturing component sales.
“You won’t talk to anyone in industry who’s not been the victim of a plant shutdown,” Link said. “You get tired of the corporate rat race.”
He decided on the hot dog business after he found himself visiting the Lowe’s in Hendersonville — not for the home improvement goods sold inside, but for the hot dogs sold outside. He won’t say exactly how much he netted his first year as a vendor, but selling hot dogs paid more than manufacturing, he said.
What’s more, he could earn more in two nights outside the bars on Broadway than in five days outside corporate offices on Church Street.
Thugs stole his tip jar twice, and someone snatches a dollar bag of chips here and there, Link said, but that’s the price of doing business.
Three years later, he’s a downtown fixture, on a first-name basis with delivery men and homeless people and hotel valets who count on Skip for a smile and a joke and – if they’re flat busted – a free hot dog now and again.
Durham, N.C., received national news coverage in 2010 when two vendors started fighting over the same corner — but only one of them had a permit. Police arrested the other, who went on to argue that requiring a permit was an infringement on his constitutional rights.
That argument didn’t fly, said Marc Meyer, general inspection supervisor for Durham County.
Durham’s vendor codes are less restrictive than those in nearby Raleigh and Chapel Hill, so it draws more hot dog carts, he said. The city recently loosened them even more, removing the requirement vendors move their carts 50 feet every 15 minutes.
Memphis, Tenn., only allows vending on Main Street downtown, said Christine Taylor, office manager for the Downtown Memphis Commission. Other than that, city officials just ask vendors to use common sense, she said — don’t sit in front of someone else’s business.
Many of the rules nationwide are aimed at protecting brick-and-mortar restaurants, Tibbetts said.
That’s been a concern in Nashville, too. Traffic and Parking Commission Chairman Gene Ward said he hasn’t heard many complaints about the hot dog carts except from restaurant owners.
“They feel like it’s unfair competition to locate in front of their businesses,” he said.
Vendor Greg York said he quit his UPS delivery job after he discovered he could earn more with a hot dog cart. Pushed farther off Broadway, he said, he’s had to take on private security jobs to supplement the carts income, and his wife had to return to work.
He sets up his Blazen Dogs cart on Division and Demonbreun streets now — although he’s been run off from several spots in that area, too, he said — and near Five Points in East Nashville.
“I’m not going to sit here and battle eight or 10 carts over one spot,” York said. “This has turned hot dog owners against themselves. Everybody used to get along.”
For the downtown Nashville lunch crowd, he offers to do their jobs if they’ll buy a $2 frank. At night, he lets drunks take pictures next to the slogan on his cart, a pun about meat and buns. He feigns indignation at anyone who raises an eyebrow: “I can’t help it if you have a dirty mind!”
The hot dogs and the shtick pay better than Link’s former six-figure job as a manufacturing supervisor – the one he lost when the Peterbilt plant closed in Madison. But lately, he and other hot dog vendors say their livelihood is being threatened by enforcement of the city’s sidewalk laws.
“No vending” signs began springing up on one corner after another just before Christmas, following the Skip’s Links hot dog cart, its owner claims, and driving him from lucrative Broadway locations to spots on Fourth Avenue or Church Street.
It’s arbitrary, Link says. Not at all, city officials respond.
“We are not making this up, we are simply enforcing the code,” said Mark Macy, Metro Public Works assistant director. “With more carts, there’s more emphasis on treating everybody fairly. … There’s an awareness that there is more regulation going on.”
He said his department is willing to take suggestions while working on a map that shows spots they can set up downtown and in outlying areas — where some vendors say they’ve been forced to move to make a living.
Nashville’s vendor code dates back to 1998 and is different from the regulations that apply to food trucks — which also were in dispute two years ago when the trucks began gaining popularity.
The vendor code requires carts to be 8 feet from the nearest building and 15 feet from fire hydrants, fire escapes, parking meters and other small structures.
That means there simply aren’t legal spots on Broadway’s sidewalks, Metro Police Sgt. John Borque said. There’s one trailer in a private parking lot on Broadway that complies.
Borque said unhappy vendors should contact their city council representatives if they want a different law. Until then, his officers must enforce the one they have to keep pedestrians moving on crowded sidewalks.
“It’s not as important as protecting people from violent crime, but we are charged with enforcing all the laws,” he said.
A hot dog summit
Link has some suggestions for the city — starting with a hot dog summit to get everyone together and decide what’s fair placement for carts. He’s accumulating stacks of email exchanges with Borque, Councilwoman Erica Gilmore, public works permit office manager Rory Rowan and mayor’s office community relations coordinator Scott Wallace.Link, who lives in Hendersonville, graduated from Belmont College in 1968 with a business degree and marketing minor. He spent much of his career with GE and later with truck manufacturer Peterbilt. When the Madison plant closed, he briefly went into manufacturing component sales.
“You won’t talk to anyone in industry who’s not been the victim of a plant shutdown,” Link said. “You get tired of the corporate rat race.”
He decided on the hot dog business after he found himself visiting the Lowe’s in Hendersonville — not for the home improvement goods sold inside, but for the hot dogs sold outside. He won’t say exactly how much he netted his first year as a vendor, but selling hot dogs paid more than manufacturing, he said.
What’s more, he could earn more in two nights outside the bars on Broadway than in five days outside corporate offices on Church Street.
Thugs stole his tip jar twice, and someone snatches a dollar bag of chips here and there, Link said, but that’s the price of doing business.
Three years later, he’s a downtown fixture, on a first-name basis with delivery men and homeless people and hotel valets who count on Skip for a smile and a joke and – if they’re flat busted – a free hot dog now and again.
"Everybody used to get along"
Regulations on food carts vary from city to city and can be cumbersome, said Sean Tibbetts, executive director of the Lexington, Ky.-based Mobile Food Vendors Association. Vendor operations have a 60 percent failure rate, he said, often because the owners can’t navigate complicated codes or permits, required by a number of city agencies.Durham, N.C., received national news coverage in 2010 when two vendors started fighting over the same corner — but only one of them had a permit. Police arrested the other, who went on to argue that requiring a permit was an infringement on his constitutional rights.
That argument didn’t fly, said Marc Meyer, general inspection supervisor for Durham County.
Durham’s vendor codes are less restrictive than those in nearby Raleigh and Chapel Hill, so it draws more hot dog carts, he said. The city recently loosened them even more, removing the requirement vendors move their carts 50 feet every 15 minutes.
Memphis, Tenn., only allows vending on Main Street downtown, said Christine Taylor, office manager for the Downtown Memphis Commission. Other than that, city officials just ask vendors to use common sense, she said — don’t sit in front of someone else’s business.
Many of the rules nationwide are aimed at protecting brick-and-mortar restaurants, Tibbetts said.
That’s been a concern in Nashville, too. Traffic and Parking Commission Chairman Gene Ward said he hasn’t heard many complaints about the hot dog carts except from restaurant owners.
“They feel like it’s unfair competition to locate in front of their businesses,” he said.
Vendor Greg York said he quit his UPS delivery job after he discovered he could earn more with a hot dog cart. Pushed farther off Broadway, he said, he’s had to take on private security jobs to supplement the carts income, and his wife had to return to work.
He sets up his Blazen Dogs cart on Division and Demonbreun streets now — although he’s been run off from several spots in that area, too, he said — and near Five Points in East Nashville.
“I’m not going to sit here and battle eight or 10 carts over one spot,” York said. “This has turned hot dog owners against themselves. Everybody used to get along.”
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Ringing in the New Year with a Great New Look
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