When you were a kids did you ever create some kind of weird food combination that only you would eat?
Some recipe that you came up with from your imagination, or some odd dish or modification to food that only you thought tasted good?
I did, I called it Hot Dog Souffle.
In 1989 I was 8 years old and I had learned how to make Scrambled Eggs, I even had a preferred spoon, it was a long wooden spoon because it always made the egg’s fluffier. Eventually I got curious at what else I could make, I new that I liked Hot Dogs and new how to make them in the Microwave, I knew that I liked cheese and that in the microwave as the Hot Dog would cook as the cheese melted.
I created what I called “ Hot Dog Souffle.”
HOT DOG SOUFFLE:
2-3 Hot Dogs, poorly diced. (any brand)
Cheese, pealed into strips ( any brand.)
With a side of Ketchup meant for dipping.
It was never a “Soufflé,”
Souffle was just a word that I heard that always seemed to be associated with fancy food and that is why I called it that. I thought I was being “fancy” by melting cheese on Hot Dogs in the microwave.
Sometimes I would get it just right. Cutting hot Dogs up with a Butter Knife because I was not old enough to use a real sharp knife. I would peal the cheese by hand just right and layered over the Hot Dogs and hen I would time it in the Microwave a minute and 13 seconds usually cooked it just right and it was a delicacy.
Other times I would be in too much of a rush or too sure of myself and it came out horrible, but I would still eat it, my mother always told me that wasting food was a sin.
I made that snack for myself from 1989 to 1992 and I always announced or asked my parents if I could make it and they always said that I could. I never took into consideration at how frustrating it must of been to clean up the aftermath of Hot Dog Souffle for my parents. They must of had to scrub the cheese off of the dish I used.
I don’t know if they put up with it out of love, or out of some hope that I was going to become a Chef, there were arguments had over Hot Dog Souffle but I was never told not to make it and just to be more responsible when I made it.
That was my weird, I guess you can say “Food Quirk” when I was a kid, what was yours?
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