Foodzilla #1: Taco Dogs

Warning: The following is an abomination of nature and if you value your stomach, should not be made by ANYONE. Also, it was originally posted over at my old food blog. "Foodzilla" is going to be a semi-regular feature - by which I mean "posted whenever I feel the need to punish people around me with terrifying foodstuffs from days best forgotten".

Without further ado, I give you: Taco Dogs.



It was decided that our first foray into culinary abominations of nature should be a baby step, mostly because it's Saturday night, and my good friend from Boulder ventured herself down to Denver and it's already 8:30 here...so suffice it to say that I don't feel like making something that needs to be chilled.

I got this recipe from "Parties from All Seasons: Adventures in Cooking Series" by Barbara MacDonald published by the Culinary Arts Institute, Chicago, IL in 1976. (ISBN: 0832605492)

Original Recipe:

Taco Dogs
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12 Skinless Frankfurters
12 Taco Shells
1 Can Taco Sauce
1 1/2 c. Shredded Lettuce
1 1/2 c. Cheddar Cheese
1 1/2 c. Chopped Tomato


To assemble Taco Dogs, place frankfurters in taco shells; top with taco sauce, shredded lettuce, cheese, and chopped tomato.

WARNING: SERVES 12.

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Even though I've lived most of my life in either Texas or Iowa (I'll admit to living in Texas, but only because it was only until I was 5), I have never considered the blasphemy that is the Taco Dog. But I found it in one of the 12 elderly cook books I bought for $10 today, so I decided that it would be a better jumping off point for my newly launched culinary experiment than, say, a lamb and mint jelly aspic. I don't want to scare my guinea pig...er, boyfriend...off quite yet. So we'll start simple, and work our way up.

But since this is an easy one, why don't we jazz it up a bit? I mean, lame taco sauce, lettuce and cheese??? That's all?

No. This will not do.

So, we're featuring our jazzed up recipe.

Funked Up Abominations of Nature: The Hungry Hipster Taco Dog



Step 1: Go get the yummiest hot dog you know of, and prepare it in your favorite way. If it's a beer brat, do it. Whatever. We got some yummy looking "Hot Links".

Step 2: Cut up a roma tomato or two, get together some spring mix lettuce.

Step 3: Cut up an avacado and mash it in a little bowl with some medium Pace picante sauce. I'm biased. I totally love that stuff. I was raised on it.

Step 4: Get out taco shells.

Step 5: Layer tomato and lettuce in shell. Put hotdog in shell too.

Step 6: Add avacado mixture, whatever kind of funky salsa you like (we used a spicy black bean one) and some fat free sour cream.

Step 7: Acquire stomach ache....I'm totally at this step now.

Seriously, this one's at your own risk. Yours, AND your intestines.


Just to be in the spirit of the venture, we took a picture oldstyle; the white balance was messed up. Retro food, here we come.