Taste of Chicago

Also, I'm going to make a near-perfect Chicago-style hot dog (with a couple of concessions: first, I don't eat beef, so I went with pork dogs, not beef franks; and second, I think pickle spears are unwieldy, so I went with sliced pickle spears, instead)...


Fluky's, the venerable Chicago hot dog stand, makes their own brand of sport peppers (aka, "serrano peppers") -- but I didn't think they were worth the price, when I could get simple La Preferida Sport Peppers for cheaper, and which should be easy to locate wherever you live, if you're inclined to make your own Chicago-style hot dogs.


And there you go! Nummers! Easy to do. And so yummy! I think celery salt is really the key, since the remaining ingredients are self-evident.

Let's get Kraken

I love giant squids, the Kraken of old, and I love rum, so when I saw that there was a new rum called Kraken, I just had to get some...





Review of it pending. Stay tuned!