Today's Chopped Challenge was Eric's meal. His secret ingredients that were randomly selected from the hat were hot dogs, carrots, and peas. Actually, he drew popcorn chicken instead of hot dogs, but Eric had just a bit of a meltdown last night when we drew ingredients. He really really wanted hot dogs. He was still crying about his terrible, horrible, no good, really bad day three hours later. I decided to let him trade, since the goal of the competition is to encourage an interest in cooking.
Eric chose to show case hot dogs in 2 ways. First, he made a typical hot dog on a bun, using Cloverdale reds. Eric topped his with relish, mustard, ketchup, and crushed tri-color tortilla chips. Next, he used Cloverdale Beef Dogs to make a hot dog salad. He sliced the dogs and stirred them up into a bed of torn Romaine with chopped apples, carrots, and peas. It was as tasty as it sounds.
Despite the look on his face, Eric had a lot of fun cooking his meal.
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