Flat Dogs (More Information)
Hot dog are made of a variety of ingredients - but most involve eggs, soy or yeast. Along with that you typically have the highly ambiguous "spices" item on the ingredient list which could consist of any number of things (generic ingredient items are best to avoid when you are eating with allergies). Then you have the casing which should be relatively safe but you can never be sure until you try. Once more, this is something that is probably best to avoid when eating with allergies. In fact, to sum up this entire site, it is probably best to avoid anything unknown when eating with allergies.
The foundation of the hot dog is meat - no vegetarian hot dogs here! In this case, we chose to use pork but beef or buffalo work too. (Grind up some chicken meat even.) The meat provides the base for this recipe so all the other ingredient should relate to this.
As for the other ingredients - onions add a little heat and carrots give it some crunch. Celery is good for spice and if you can eat peppers, those work in here too. Broccoli makes it a little more interesting than normal and garlic packs some mean punch. In fact, any veggie trio you can come up with works quite nicely. Trios are good though - that gives just enough flavor without overpowering it. In this case, we chose to use brocolli, onions and carrots (okay, these are slighty veggie flat dogs).
Now you need something to help with the filling for this. Rice cereal can be used to enhance our breakfast sausage. It is really the same principle here. Except this time, we are using some ground up oat meal for the filler. Rice flour or oat flour work and for something that tastes really great try quinoa.
Once you have all that in place, mash the meat, grind up the filler (oat meal here) and the veggie trio and then mix it all together. Roll all that into hot dog shaped things (or any shape you like) and cook it up in the method of your choice. We prefer frying up in a pan but grilling, baking and broiling all work just as well. These can be frozen and re-heated over the summer for a quick hot dog-like thing at a moment's notice.
