GG's Hot Dogs and Peppers

My mother use to make this dish for us when we were little.  I know it sounds weird but try it.  It is really really good and the flavor is different than just an old hot dog.  Feeding four kids was tough back then so she had to be creative with food, and she was.  My mom was the best cook around.  From her homemade vegetable soup to homemade cinnamon rolls.  She could think up a recipe, just with the ingredients she had to work with, to feed us.  Never mind that sometimes she had food on the ceiling, which was part of her cooking personality, if it wasn't on the ceiling and every pot and pan in the sink it wouldn't be good.  Bless you MOM you taught us both how to be great cooks and to use our imagination in doing it, YOU were the best!

This is what you will need - hot dogs, cubanelle peppers, onion, tomato paste, crushed red pepper, oil

Clean and slice peppers and onion

 Slice up the hot dogs

Add to the peppers and onions

Add the paste

 Slowly cook it down

GG’s Hot Dogs with Peppers and Onions

 INGREDIENTS

3 Tbsp. canola or olive oil

6  medium size frying peppers (cubanelle)

Crushed red pepper flakes or hot peppers (optional), if you like heat add them

1 Vidalia onion or other sweet onion, sliced in half then sliced down

2 lbs all beef hot dogs, sliced in 1 inch pieces

1 - 6 oz can of tomato paste

1 1/2 cups of water

Salt and pepper to taste. 

Crusty fresh Kaiser rolls

DIRECTIONS

Use a Dutch oven and heat oil on medium-high heat.  Seed and cut peppers into 2 inch pieces.  Cut the onion in half, slice halves down about 1 inch apart.  Slice hot dogs into 1 inch round pieces.  When the oil heats up, brown the peppers, onion, and add the crushed red pepper.   Add the hot dogs and cook until the ends pop out.  Add the tomato paste, water, salt and pepper and stir.  Simmer on low for about 1 hour stirring occasionally.  Serve on Kaiser rolls.

NOTE:  If sauce gets too thick add more water.