Texas Tommies Recipes

Steps:

• To make chili, brown ground beef in 1 tablespoon vegetable oil in a large saucepan for about 10 minutes over medium heat.
• Add onion and red bell pepper, stirring well. Add tomato sauce and seasonings, stirring well.
• Allow mixture to bubble for about 10 minutes, then reduce heat to simmer and cook at least 30 minutes.
• To make hot dogs, cook on your grill or on a grill pan until just seared on the outside.
• Meanwhile, toast buns in a 400-degree oven for about 10 minutes, taking care not to brown.
• Swipe each bun with mustard, top with chili as desired, followed by grated cheese, onion and, if you're brave, jalapenos.
• If you'd like the cheese all melty, place chili dogs on a foil-lined cookie sheet and run under a hot broiler for 2 to 3 minutes or until cheese bubbles.

Steps:

• Heat water in sauce pan and add dogs and bring to a boil. Remove pan from heat and let sit 5 minutes.
• Drain dogs and when cool enough to handle split almost all the way thru to open like a book.
• Cook bacon in fry pan (No microwave) until almost cooked.
• Cut cheddar into 1/4 X 1/4 inch sticks. Put two pieces of cheese in into each dog. Wrap with bacon and secure with tooth pick on each end so that dog sits upright with slit up.
• Cook a few minutes on grill pan and turn over and cook until bacon is crisp.
• Serve with all the fixings.

Steps:

• Empty pork and beans into a large casserole dish.
• Slice hot dogs lengthways starting near one end and ending before other end, so hot dog looks like a boat. Place a slice of cheese inside the hot dog, wrap a slice of bacon around the hot dog and place on top of the beans.
• Place dish, uncovered, in oven, preheated to 350 degrees F, and cook for 30 minutes. Serve hot dog on or off a roll, with beans on the side.

Steps:

• Boil potatoes until soft.
• Slip peels off and cube potatoes.
• Salt and pepper potatoes to taste.
• Fry bacon until crisp, saving bacon grease.
• Crumble bacon and set aside.
• Brown cubed potatoes in bacon grease and set aside.
• Pour bottle of Ranch Dressing onto an oven safe platter.
• Pile potatoes on top of dressing.
• Crumble bacon over potatoes and spread cheddar over potatoes.
• Broil in oven until cheese melts.
• Serve as a side or an appetizer.