Author: aowam

The meat pur­chas­es in my week­ly gro­cery run are heav­i­ly depen­dent on what is on sale and what is on clear­ance. Then I try to come up with some­thing. In an age where the inter­net is much more rea­son­able and con­ve­nient than an actu­al cook­book, thats where I turn for dif­fer­ent recipes. So start­ed my dilem­ma last evening after work. Pork chops. Phooey. Bing search and oo coun­try fried pork chops. 

This is the recipe I referred to: very detailed, nice pic­tures, over­all great recipe. How­ev­er, I have learned my les­son sev­er­al times over to not fol­low them to a T and so these days it’s lit­er­al­ly just ref­er­ence and I tweak the recipe to my lik­ing.

So how did I tweak? 

1. We nei­ther have nor can phys­i­cal­ly tol­er­ate but­ter­milk. I’m sure it would make it taste bet­ter so instead with the egg I put a lit­tle chick­en broth and mus­tard. 
2. No exact mea­sur­ing for me. Every­one has dif­fer­ent tastes so hav­ing cooked for a while I just winged it and hoped it was good.
3. I decid­ed to put soy sauce on the chops them­selves before bat­ter­ing up to give it more fla­vor. Worked very well.

My audi­ence (i.e. my picky broth­er and my dogs) loved it. He (the human) even asked if it was store pre­pared bat­ter and hav­ing learned that it was all from scratch com­pli­ment­ed it. Whoa. Always a good sign when the broth­er looks for more and the dogs fol­low me around after a taste in hopes of more hand­outs.

If you like gravy it would have been indi­cat­ed but I don’t care for it myself. My only regrets were not mak­ing more and that the oil either seemed to have degrad­ed or I over­loaded the pan for the final batch.

Hap­py cook­ing!

So called because they are make from Kodi­ak brand of pan­cake mix! I am addict­ed to the mix!!!! It’s absolute­ly amaz­ing. Now let me say here, that I dis­like corn­bread. No amount of try­ing “real­ly good” corn bread will make me like it. I don’t hate it like I hate mush­rooms but I dis­like it. The only thing I tol­er­ate corn­bread with are corn­dogs. Now take corn­dogs and pan­cake mix, change a few things up and WHAMO you have pan­cake bat­tered hot­dogs!!!

And that’s what I’ll be post­ing about here. Quite easy to make with the Kodi­ak pancake/waffle mix and your favorite brand of hot­dogs. I hap­pen to like the Oscar May­er ones.

The pur­pose of this post is just shar­ing of some­thing I made. I am in no way an expert. In fact, this is the very first time I made this!

What you need:

• Hot­dogs
• Pan­cake mix
• Corn Meal
• Deep Fry­er
• Peanut oil
• Sticks. I used cof­fee stir­rer sticks.

Now for a series of pic­tures.

This is the box of the one I used. There are many dif­fer­ent mix­es to choose from under the Kodi­ak brand.

First off, I decid­ed to cut the hot­dogs in half, one, because the cof­fee stir­rers were much too flim­sy to hold a whole hot­dog, two, the deep fry­er is not near­ly big enough, and three, I fig­ure it would fry faster. The cof­fee stir­rers were still flim­sy on the half-dogs (btw these are the jum­bo wieners).

Here is the set­up I used out­side. It just so hap­pened that my mom want­ed to use a dif­fer­ent bat­ter so she made her own (the small­er blue bowl on the left side). Pay that no mind. That’s a Presto mul­ti-pur­pose pot. We usu­al­ly fry out­side to pre­vent smell, heat and splash­ing.

Pret­ty sim­ple stuff. Coat the dog in mix. Notice how the con­sis­ten­cy is thick­er rather than thin­ner.

Now fry it. You can see now why I cut them in half. There are 4 fry­ing there.

Look­ing some­what dark, but smelling heav­en­ly. It’s get­ting dark too. I had some trou­ble get­ting them not to stick to each oth­er in the bas­ket.

And here’s the end result. Close up so you can see the corn meal. Look­ing like a real corn­dog!

Yeah­h­hh, I’m a big fan of more meat, less bat­ter. On the side, since I had more mix left, I decid­ed to dice up some chick­en breast and use the remain­ing bits to coat that and fry. The fun­ny light col­ored bits on top are plain pan­cake mix with noth­ing in it.…don’t rec­om­mend that so much. The chick­en turned out real­ly well, sim­i­lar to a Chick-fil‑a nugget in con­sis­ten­cy.

In con­clu­sion: In doing this again, while it was over­all a suc­cess, I’d rec­om­mend mix­ing some hon­ey or maple syrup into the pan­cake mix. It was a lit­tle bland since it was just pan­cake mix and not corn­bread, but noth­ing a lit­tle driz­zle of maple syrup on top did­n’t solve! If want­i­ng to use a full sized wiener or frank, I’d get a full sized deep fry­er and pop­si­cle sticks or take­out chop­sticks. The cof­fee stir­rers were per­fect for the half-cut, though. I will def­i­nite­ly be try­ing this again in the future!