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Expand6 all beef hot dogs, in natural casing (Vienna Beef if available) Ask a question about this ingredient
2 or more french baguettes (this is Windy City heresy but I'll explain) Ask a question about this ingredient
1 jar yellow ball park mustard Ask a question about this ingredient
1 jar green pickle relish Ask a question about this ingredient
2 tomatoes, thinly sliced Ask a question about this ingredient
1 onion, chopped Ask a question about this ingredient
at least six pickle spears Ask a question about this ingredient
12 chicago style sport peppers Ask a question about this ingredient
Cut the baguettes to fit the length of your hot dog. Toast them lightly while you grill or steam the dogs. We prefer the former. Your hot dogs need some spine to them, and the skin should snap and not burst.
Ask a question about this stepAssemble. Celery salt is an indispensible ingredient. If you can't find sport peppers substitute a similar Italian style jarred pepper, say piquante.
Ask a question about this stepMy major act of apostasy here is omitting the traditional poppy seed bun. This is because they can be hard to find outside the midwest. But also because I tasted outrageously good foot long dogs served on a baguette recently. I'll explain later.
Ask a question about this stepNow enjoy your dog and watch Kevin Costner and Sean Connery in "The Untouchables".
Ask a question about this stepYes, but what about the duck fat fries?
The duck fat fries at Hot Doug's are by themselves worth buying a plane ticket to Chicago and taking a taxi straight to the North Side. And remember, if you ask for ketchup you get kicked out and put on a train to White Sox land.
Perfect! Reminds me of snowstorm days in DeKalb when I set the family room coffee table up for a snow bound Chicago hot dog dinner in front of the fireplace.
Here in NC we pack up the grill etc. for lunch or dinner at the beach, grilling hot dogs a few times during the summer. I'm thinking this will be our first hot dog dinner this year.
Thanks pierino
This past summer at Saratoga Race Course, they opened a Shake Shack stand where they served a Chicago-style hot dog 'dragged through the garden' -- I had kind of forgotten about it until I read your recipe. I am so looking forward to creating my own (as soon as it stops raining)! BTW loved loved loved Sean Connery in the Untouchables, but my favorite scene was when Kevin Costner pushed Frank Nitti off the roof and said something like, "Did he sound anything like that?"
Recently I was stuck in the beautiful Santa Ynez valley for more nights than planned because of weather. I took an early dinner at the bar of Bradley Ogden's Root 246 (very bad pun). One of the signature items on the bar menu is their foot long hot dog made by Hobbs in San Francisco just for them. Bradley riffs on styles from Chicago to Philly (how scary is that?). Because I'm a digger of all dogs I sourced it out. If you are willing to spend $65 for two pounds of hot dog I'll tell you how to find them.
Fany is the author of My Sweet Mexico and Paletas.
Oh how I love a good hotdog. This is probably sacrilegious, but personally, I think the very best hot dogs are in Norway, wrapped in potato bread and sprinkled with deep fried onions, mmmm.