Supper...

[Gonna Smoke]

I've been making quite a bit of sausage lately, so time to cook some. The Cumberland sausage, which is a family favorite, stuffed into 28-32mm hog casings and Eric's SmokinEdge hotdog recipe were on deck today. Also hotdog chili made with brisket burger I ground. Not many pics, but here's the dogs I made last week. I like my dogs longer than the bun so these are 7" long...

The brats were steeped in CHEAP beer and then grilled alongside hotdogs. All finished...

The chili was brisket burger I ground and the recipe was...

• 2½ pounds ground brisket
• 1 cup water
• 16 ounce can of tomato sauce
• 1 cup ketchup
• 5 teaspoons chili powder. I make my own salt free. If you want the recipe, let me know.
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon white sugar, or to taste. I'm not real big on adding a bunch of sugar.
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 2 dashes Worcestershire sauce. OK, who adds just a dash or 2? Just shake it in.
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder

Put everything in a pot and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until desired thickness. For me, this was about an hour, stirring frequently...

Sauteed some peppers and onions for the brats...

Served with fries, I made chili cheese fries. My plate, I could only eat 1 hotdog and some chili cheese fries. Our son-in-law ate a brat and said WOW...

I put most of my condiments on the bun before the dog and chili. I have become quite fond of Ragin Cajun jalapeno relish...

As well as Woeber's Jalapeno Mustard...

Both are under the dog...

 

[JLinza]

Lookin good. That would go great with a side of Baseball and a cold one

 

[chef k-dude]

Nice sausage skills!

I defy the traditional "stacking" of ingredients on stuff too. It makes more sense to "sandwich" condiments, etc. between the dog and bun in this case.

I confound the sub makers at the sub shops where you call your own toppings, they do things totally backwards of common sense. I was at a Jersey Mike's once watching the dude build a sub. He tops it with tomatoes then blasts it with oil and vinegar...most of which, of course, deflects off the tomatoes and thus the sandwich, then watched him scrape all the oil and vinegar off the counter in to the thrash can.

I'm thinking, "you do this all day, every day, and it hasn't occurred to you this is moronic?". Nice guy, but I had to tell him how to stack my sub using some brain cells...well, I mean no brain matter actually on the sub, but you know what I mean...right?

 

[SmokinEdge]

Nice work there Charles. You’ve been busy lately. Looks all very delicious.

 

[DRKsmoking]

Love it Charles, and I am sure there is room on that plate for another sausage, lol

That Ragin Cajun sweet jalapeno relish sounds great, I make my own but always up to try others.

David

 

[Elf@shore]

That,s what I am talking about !
All from scratch !
Looks GREAT!
Enjoy them Dogs !

 

[JLeonard]

Lookin good. That would go great with a side of Baseball and a cold one

I have to agree with this!

Jim

 

[Hijack73]

That hot dog chili is some top o'the line looking stuff. PERFECT consistency for a hotdog.

With the cup of ketchup, I think I'd find it a little odd, but I wouldn't mind testing, oh, maybe 6 chili dogs before I rendered a final decision. I have a hard time making hot dog chili I really like, so maybe that's what I'm missing.

I'm weird about ketchup. I go though spells where a bottle will last me 6 months, generally only using it on or in meatloaf, and sometimes I go though a bottle in a month because I'm craving it on stuff like hot dogs or a burger or (don't shame me) on top of some cheesy mac and ground beef dish (think Hamburger Helper). Hell, I dunked a grilled cheese in some about a week ago and ate it on tater tots last night. I might not have a taste for it again until August now. Or I might make a cheeseburger and dunk it in it tomorrow night.

The grilled cheese and ketchup is straight out of my childhood. Great grandmother would get me a grilled cheese and fries at K-Mart and I ate ketchup with it. Loved it.

 

[Hijack73]

I made a 1/2 batch using your measurements with one exception. I didn't have any tomato sauce so I subbed 4oz tomato paste and 8 oz water.

It's pretty good.

For me, I wanted a little more cumin and some onion so after had it the right consistency I added about 3-4 oz water and some dehydrated onion and a bit more cumin and salt.
I don't taste ketchup at all, just a very mild sweetness.

I'll be making this once in a while. The batch I made I'll freeze into 10-12 oz portions and that will last me a few months. This is after I added the additional ingredients and now I just have to reduce it down a bit again.

 

[Redicans]

Great looking meal!! I bet that filled you up nicely!!