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I can't believe I am to my 50th post already. That's about 2 straight months of eating something new once a day! It feels so good to see something you have thought about and thought about actually take shape and turn into a great learning opportunity with lots of memories. Countless recipe fails...and I mean fails! haha but you can't learn if you don't make mistakes along the way. Just for fun let's look at some of the recipes that just didn't quite make the cut....yet!
Sweet Potato Bread...good for about a day then went downhill
Cauliflower Cheesy Bread...wrong on so many levels. Note to self: don't include an ingredient that made you sick before. You remember it every time you eat it....yikes!
Healthy Pumpkin Waffles...something I added made them so bitter. Not even all the syrup in the world could fix it. Now you know why in my other posts I make fun of recipes with pumpkin in it haha
Horrible picture to go with horrible baked gooey whatever oatmeal.
And the worst one to date was so BAD I didn't even take a picture of it. Vegan Chocolate Ice Cream. Seriously tasted like dirt.
My point is, DO NOT give up on something that you love to do just because you have had a few bad speed bumps. It happens to all of us. All you can do is just smile, laugh it off and try again or try something new :)
So today I bring you some homemade Corn Dogs but not made with a hot dog. They are made with ground turkey I rolled and cooked before dipping and frying them. Even though this is a fried food, it still tasted a whole lot better with real meat. (Please don't get me started on why hot dogs are not even real meat!)
It looks good huh?
Prep time: I don't know haha I totally spaced on it but I would say around 45 minutes before actually dipping and frying
Cook time: 2 minutes
Yields: 6 Corn Dogs
Ingredients:
1 pound ground turkey meat
1 cup yellow corn meal
1 cup flour
1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper
1/4 cup sugar
4 tsp. baking powder
1 egg
1.5 cups milk + 1/2 cup later on
Preparation
extra flour
vegetable oil for frying
wooden skewers cut in half
Instructions:
1. First we need to prepare the turkey dogs. I do not eat hot dogs, they are not meat, therefore I can't justify eating them haha
2. With your pound of meat, evenly (i tried to make it even) cut it into six sections. Then roll each piece of meat into a hot dog shape. It is the easiest to just roll it on the counter back and forth like you would play with play-doh and make worms....ya you get the point!
3. I know they look weird...come on...long pink pieces of meat...haha but place them in a pan with a little bit of olive oil over medium heat. Roll them after a while to cook all sides. Total probably about 10 minutes. Remove and let cool on a paper towel.
1 cup yellow corn meal
1 cup flour
1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper
1/4 cup sugar
4 tsp. baking powder
1 egg
1.5 cups milk + 1/2 cup later on
Preparation
extra flour
vegetable oil for frying
wooden skewers cut in half
Instructions:
1. First we need to prepare the turkey dogs. I do not eat hot dogs, they are not meat, therefore I can't justify eating them haha
2. With your pound of meat, evenly (i tried to make it even) cut it into six sections. Then roll each piece of meat into a hot dog shape. It is the easiest to just roll it on the counter back and forth like you would play with play-doh and make worms....ya you get the point!
3. I know they look weird...come on...long pink pieces of meat...haha but place them in a pan with a little bit of olive oil over medium heat. Roll them after a while to cook all sides. Total probably about 10 minutes. Remove and let cool on a paper towel.
4. While the meat is cooling, mix the dipping batter. It was the rest of the ingredients: corn meal, flour, cayenne pepper, sugar, baking powder, egg, and milk. Mix really well so that there are no clumps.
5. Before we finish preparing our corn dogs, in a wide pan, add enough vegetable oil to cover the bottom and have it be about 1-2 inches deep. Turn on over medium heat and have it start getting hot. The oil has to be ready and hot enough before we stick the corn dogs in.
6. Now with the corn dogs. Take wooden skewers and cut them in half and then carefully slide them in the middle of the meat and stop about an inch to the top.
7. Roll the meat in flour so that the batter will stick to it better.
8. To test to see if the oil is hot enough, take a little bit of batter and drop it in the oil. It should start sizzling right away. If not let it heat up some more and then try again.
9. When the oil is hot enough, add the remaining 1/2 cup of milk to the batter to make it runny and then dip the skewered turkey dogs into the batter and make sure they are all the way covered.
10. Place them in your pan of oil being careful that it doesn't splash and burn you.
11. Now since we are laying them down in the oil and not straight up and down like restaurants do, the batter is going to spread out a little in an oval shape. That is perfectly fine...I mean come on these are homemade and most of us don't have a professional deep fryer!
12. The corn dogs should only take about 1 minute on each side until they are done. They cook pretty past so be careful they don't burn.
13. Remove and place on a paper towel to absorb some of the oil and you are good to go!
6. Now with the corn dogs. Take wooden skewers and cut them in half and then carefully slide them in the middle of the meat and stop about an inch to the top.
7. Roll the meat in flour so that the batter will stick to it better.
9. When the oil is hot enough, add the remaining 1/2 cup of milk to the batter to make it runny and then dip the skewered turkey dogs into the batter and make sure they are all the way covered.
10. Place them in your pan of oil being careful that it doesn't splash and burn you.
11. Now since we are laying them down in the oil and not straight up and down like restaurants do, the batter is going to spread out a little in an oval shape. That is perfectly fine...I mean come on these are homemade and most of us don't have a professional deep fryer!
12. The corn dogs should only take about 1 minute on each side until they are done. They cook pretty past so be careful they don't burn.
13. Remove and place on a paper towel to absorb some of the oil and you are good to go!