"Haute" dogs

So starting off with my new adventure of cooking my way through Tyler Florence's cookbook I decided to start out with a great dish for watching the Super Bowl. These "haute" dogs are nothing more than glorified pigs in a blanket, but man are they glorious! In the recipe you are supposed to use a sausage and put caraway seeds on top but seeing as it is just me and the boys I opted for beef hotdogs and no seeds. They still turned out fantastic.

The ingredient list is a hard one, are you ready? Hotdogs....and puff pastry. I know, it blows my mind too! To be fair Tyler Florence's recipe calls for high grade sausage, puff pastry, caraway seeds and an egg white to give it a nice shine and make the seeds stick. I made mine the same he made his though.

I used kosher salt instead of caraway seeds just to give it an extra bite. Alright are you ready for the directions? Thaw the puff pastry. Cut one sheet into six pieces. Wrap one hotdog in one piece of cut puff pastry. Place on parchment paper lined baking sheet with seam side down. You can glaze with a beaten egg white if you do so choose. Sprinkle anything you'd like on top. Bake in oven at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes or until the pastry is golden brown. Voila! Delicious new take on pigs in a blanket!!

Here they are! I added a little crushed black pepper to a couple to just to experiment. Phenomenal! A nice side of yellow mustard was a great sidekick!

Seeing as his plate is clean I "assuming" that Ty liked them too! But you know what assuming does! Cam ate them more delicately buy poking the hotdog out first then eating the pastry, but hey, he ate his dinner!!

A very successful dinner on the first leg of cooking my way through this cookbook. I think this is a good sign!

Cooking my way through a cookbook...

So in a julie and julia-esk fashion I decided to cook my way through a cookbook. It literally took me FOREVER to choose one. I thought about Rachael Ray or Paula Deen but they are just too well known. I thought about doing just The Joy of Cooking or even just a relatively unknown cookbook of sorts. Ultimately I decided to go with Tyler Florence. Although is he known on Food Network I don't think he is a BIG star. I like him as a person (from what I can gather!) and his food has always looked delicious and aimed towards families. This particular cookbook of his looks to be very interesting and almost all of the meals I intend to prepare for my family. I say almost all because one of the recipes is for bone marrow and even if I knew where I could purchase bone marrow since its not a real commodity at the commissary :) I don't think that would really be a taste my family would enjoy. The other is a recipe with baby squids. Again, not really easy to find and if I do for a good price I might be tempted just to try it, but we will start with all of the other recipes! Each one of the recipes has a little tid bit about how or where it came from and why its there now. Nice to read. The pictures are beautiful for each recipe and it is a very family forward book. Im excited to say the least. Its a journey and I couldn't be anymore pumped up about it!