Daddy’s Hot Dog Chili -AND Hip Hostess Winners!
TWO Southern Plate Readers Will Be Choosing Hip Hostess Aprons today!
Mama Jane was the winner chosen at random for The Hip Hostess Apron Giveaway! Mama Jane, all you have to do is visit The Hip Hostess and choose your favorite apron, then email that to me along with your mailing address christy@southernplate.com.
Another reader will be choosing a Hip Hostess apron as well.
Shirley left the following comment on this post :
If I ever needed to win anything this is it. I lost my left arm to cancer and I need something with pockets to help me out! Man that is the perfect idea.
Shirley MooreAfter reading that, I know all of you wanted her to have an apron as badly as I did.
Shirley, I contacted The Hip Hostess and she was so grateful for the opportunity to send you your choice of a Hip Hostess apron in addition to our winner. Please email me at christy@southernplate.com with your mailing address after you visit The Hip Hostess and choose your favorite apron! Special thanks to The Hip Hostess and to Shirley!
We had company over the weekend and I cooked several big meals but decided to do a simple one as well. I can’t help it, I love hot dogs. But to gussy them up a bit, I added my Dad’s hot dog chili. This is one of those recipes you get told over the phone whenever you need it and no one actually bothers to write it down.
So I called Mama “Can you tell me how to make the hot dog chili again?”. She told me the instructions and I was off to the races – only this time, I’m gonna write it down. For y’all. Because I love ya’ll and because it’s summer time and most of us are going to be making more hot dogs over the next two months than we will the entire rest of the year combined.
Did I mention this freezes well? Well it does. So make a big batch and freeze it in smaller batches and have hot dog chili all summer long. Hey, its a double meat on a bun. How can you go wrong?
I am working on the free e- of freezer recipes. Make sure you’re subscribed by email to get it first! If I had a babysitter I would have had it done by now. I had a babysitter once…for about an hour or so. Got to go to a meeting at a local library. That was fun. I’ll always carry memories of that night with me. Sometimes I think about getting a T-shirt made like my son’s that says “I do my own stunts” only mine would say “I raise my own kids” ~grins~. I think I deserve a t-shirt for that. Maybe a trophy, too!
You’ll need: Ground beef, chili powder, black pepper, salt, and water.
My mom insists on Mexene chili powder. She swears by it. I insist on Morton Salt for reasons I’ve mentioned a few times on Southern Plate. If you don’t know why I am devoted to Morton’s …now is the time for a fun little treasure hunt! Go up to the search box at the top right of this page (right beneath my header) and type in “Morton Salt” and posts where I have mentioned it will come up. Just in case you like digging around a bit!
Truth is I had no idea this was my Dad’s recipe. Have I ever seen him make it? Umm…no. But he must have at some point. Of course, this makes sense seeing as how I don’t remember having it more than once a year or so. So in that case, I guess Daddy could have been the one making it. ~winks~
With that in mind, I wanted to share with you something one of my reader’s sent me. I can’t remember who sent it though and when I went to find it, I couldn’t find it anywhere in my email. My email is a bit congested. So I went on the web to find it again. If you sent this to me, please let me know in the comments so I can thank you!
This is EXACTLY how it is at my Mom’s house. It’s not how it is at my house because…well, I don’t have a grill. I’d like a grill but I don’t currently own one. If that changes at any point in the future you’ll know by the sudden influx of grilling recipes I post!
BBQ Facts of Life:
Men and Cookouts
*Note, if this offends any of my wonderful male Southern Plate readers, I promise to post some female defamation humor in the near future and I’ll even try to feed you a cookie at some point in your life to help make up for it.
We are about to enter the BBQ season. Therefore it is important to refresh your memory on the etiquette of this sublime outdoor cooking activity.
When a man volunteers to do the BBQ the following chain of events are put into motion:
Routine…
- The woman buys the food.
- The woman makes the salad, prepares the vegetables, and makes dessert.
- The woman prepares the meat for cooking, places it on a tray along with the necessary cooking utensils and sauces, and takes it to the man who is lounging beside the grill – beer in hand.
- The woman remains outside the compulsory three meter exclusion zone where the exuberance of testosterone and other manly bonding activities can take place without the interference of the woman.
- Here comes the important part:
- THE MAN PLACES THE MEAT ON THE GRILL.
- The woman goes inside to organize the plates and cutlery.
- The woman comes out to tell the man that the meat is looking great. He thanks her and asks if she will bring another beer while he flips the meat
- THE MAN TAKES THE MEAT OFF THE GRILL AND HANDS IT TO THE WOMAN.
- The woman prepares the plates, salad, bread, utensils, napkins, sauces, and brings them to the table.
- After eating, the woman clears the table and does the dishes.
- Everyone PRAISES the MAN and THANKS HIM for his cooking efforts.
- The man asks the woman how she enjoyed ‘her night off.’ And, upon seeing her annoyed reaction, concludes that there’s just no pleasing some women.
Important again:
And most important of all:
Alrighty, lets get cookin’!
Fill a pot with about enough water to cover up your ground beef.
Take a handful of ground beef and submerge it in the water and …
Moosh it up in there with your hands.
This is super easy if you do it under the water.
Yeah, I know its gross but it’s raw meat and someone has to cook it so buck up, buddy, that “someone” is you.
Besides, it’s gonna be good and I hereby declare that you can have the first hot dog for your efforts!
When you are done it will look like this.
Add chili powder. We add 3 tsp for every pound of meat so for this recipe I am adding 9 tsp.
I’m feeling terribly repressed lately. There are so many things I want to talk about. So many tangents I want to go off on and ideas and projects I want to update you on but I try (believe it or not) to stay somewhat on point on Southern Plate and I realize that y’all are coming here for food so I’ve been trying to avoid straying too terribly far off topic.
~sighs~ But I love to write and I love to share what is going on in my little minuscule corner of the world so preventing myself from doing that has caused it to build and I feel like I am about to explode. I’m dying to do some posts about the summer crafts, science experiments, and general cool stuff that the kids and I are doing around Bountiful so consider this fair warning. It’ll be coming up soon!
Add salt to taste.
You’ll need a good bit though. I am adding a heaping tablespoon. You might even want to add more.
Add a tablespoon of pepper as well (more if you like).
Stir that up and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and boil gently for about an hour. It’ll look like this.
Now get a ladle and skim the majority of the grease off the top of the pot and into a separate bowl.
Don’t panic honey, it’s just grease. I know it may look gross but if you knew half of what was in the food you ordered in a restaurant you wouldn’t think twice about drinking this stuff straight.
This is what we have left.
Yummmmmmm
Now get out what you need with a slotted spoon but to make the hot dogs really good, you need to put a bit of that juice on them, too!
Alright, now this looks good but it needs a little something…It looks naked to me.
Aww yeah, that’s the stuff!
Dad’s Hot Dog Chili
- 3 lbs ground beef
- 9 tsp chili powder (Mama insists on Mexene)
- 1 T salt (more to taste)
- 1 T pepper (More to taste)
- Enough water to cover your ground beef
Place enough water in a pot to cover your beef. Take handfuls of the beef and submerge in the water, mooshing it up with your hands. Add seasonings and stir. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and boil gently for about an hour. Ladle off grease. Remove chili with a slotted spoon to put on hot dogs. Freeze leftovers for your next cookout!
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This is me in my new yellow kitchen! I painted it myself last week. I just love the color yellow, so cheerful and happy!
There is something else new in this picture, my apron from The Hip Hostess!
One lucky Southern Plate reader will get to choose their favorite apron from the Hip Hostess just like I did!
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Posted by Christy Jordan
on Jun 15 2009. Filed under Misc, Sauces/Other.
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Love ya Christy! Thanks for the chili recipe!
oooh yummy! DH will love this!
I love your recipes.
I’ll have to try the hot dog chili – I’m ALWAYS looking for good recipes to dress up the dogs.
And I love aprons!
Beth in PA
Thanks for the chili recipe, I am going to make it today. Was that sauerkraut on the hot dog? I am thinking a chili cheese dog.
Janet F in NC
I love the yellow kitchen. It is so inviting and gives me a happy feeling.
Count me in please; I LOVE aprons! Makes me feel so domestic!
Sounds delicious and it’s so much easier than my hotdog chili recipe. Thanks for sharing!
I’ll have to make this one for the 4th of July hot dogs. I can just taste it . . . hot dogs, chili, chopped up Vidalias, and a bit of grated cheese. Mmmmmmmmmm:-) Thanks for the recipe
my hubby will love this! just for the record my gran likes the mexene chili powder too!
I love your website and posts. My husband mostly cooks and I clean. But now that I have found your site, I am trying to do more. I have made the buttermilk buscuits! They were great! He was impressed. He loves chili on hot dogs so I will plan on trying this. I love the step by step pictures! That really helps me! I live down on the Gulf Coast in Alabama and want to teach my daughter how to be a great Southern hostess!
Ohhhhh I love chili dogs!! But even better I love Chili Cheese Burgers and this recipe is almost the exact one I make…give or take a few hot peppers once they get going in my garden! A big old fat grilled burger topped with chili, some mustard and as much cheese as that bun will stand! Nummy!!! Man! I wish I had one right now and if you don’t let that chili and cheese drip onto your fries or chips you don’t know what you are missing!!!! Next thing you know you will be making chili cheese fries, chili cheese buns, chili cheese chips, chili cheese chicken strips……the possibiities are endless!
Thanks for posting this. Your descriptions always bring me right into your kitchen!
Great post!
… and that apron would sure look good in my kitchen.
I’ve become a big fan of aprons lately. I wonder why I didn’t think of them before, after all these years of messy, sloppy, stained clothing.
This is very similar to the chili sauce my grandmother made when I was growing up and it is DELICIOUS! One thing my grandmother did was drop the uncooked weiners into the chili a short while before serving; grandmother didn’t grill so this cooked the weiners. And your juice comment is right on; be sure to add some to your hot dog. GOOD EATING!
What a great idea, Judy. Your grandmother was one smart lady.
Hmm My Husband loves Chili, sometimes he adds a little hotdog to it (He actually hates hotdogs, he will eat them only with every condiment known to man on top). This is pretty easy, I bet I could do it when I forget to buy him chili.
Oh Something you may want to try with your next Hotdog: Sourcream! I know it sounds gross, my brother got hooked on it when he was in the Army (I think while in Iraq) and he forced me to try it, and it was the best condiment. Especially with Chili, cheese and mustard!
Now I am on tangents!
I absolutely love your tangents, and I don’t have a problem reading them. I figure you will get to the food eventually and in the meanwhile I have something worth reading. I had a great time talking with you the other night on FB!
That was too funny. Except yours truly does the grilling along with everything else. My dad does stand around and offer “advice” though.
Mexene chili powder is great.we use it most of the time as long as we remember to get it @ Wally World cause it’s too darn expensive at the local stores if they have it at all.
The apron is cute and love the yellow walls as well. I guess consider me entered.
Christy,
Thanks so much for all your wonderful recipes. It just so happens that chili dogs is one of our favorite foods. We’ll be having this recipe tomorrow night. Thanks again for all that you do.
Maryann
I love meaty hot dog chili! I have never tried to make my own, but this recipe sounds like one I will have to try.
my daughters favorite meal! we add old bay seasoning, cause, well, we add it to everything (ok ok, i have a yankee grandmother, you do what you can ya know?)…..
my daughter is 2 and already has 2 aprons to cook in- she loves them and insists i wear one too- which means i’ve had to start haunting antique stores cause i like to half aprons…love the link to hip hostess. i see 2 of their aprons at least in my future and lots more christmas presents for friends!!!!!!!!!!!
That looks really good. My favorite part of summer is grilling and eating hot dogs. This looks like an added bonus. Thanks
I love aprons! in fact I collect them! I don’t have a big collection yet but that’s the point of collecting right? LOL Love your blog!
God bless,
Amanda
The chili sauce recipe sounds just right for those summer grilled hotdogs!
Love the apron. I need a new one to wear around the farm here, one with big pockets to hold the chicken eggs.
Pam
I love reading your posts……. you write just like you talk! Makes it all very interesting and funny. Also love the quotes, and can’t wait for the freezer e-cookbook to come out. Thanks!
Chili dogs are one of my favorite drive-in foods! I look forward to trying them at home. By the way, I look forward to hearing about your science experiments
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I love hot dogs too and never could see why some people think them beneath them. A chili dog is even better and I want chopped raw onion on mine. A toasted bun and it is a meal fit for a king in my opinion.
Gosh Christy, how did you decide which yellow to paint your kitchen?
I have swatches on every wall trying to decide! Who knew there were so many yellows? Thanks for your Dad’s recipe.
Linda
I would love to enter this giveaway! I have recently started wearing an apron, and I really like it! I’d love to be able to add a second one to my cooking/cleaning wardrobe
Great post, Christy! I enjoyed reading the BBQ Facts of Life!
An apron is just what I need to make me a complete domestic goddess!
That’s about how we make hot dog chili in our neck of the woods too! (east texas-ish) and may I say you look just as bright and pretty as a daisy in your apron, that yellow background just sets you off! You remind me of one of my daughters and I’m tellin off on myself…let’s just say I have seven wonderful grandbabies and leave it at that!
This looks yummy!! Love the picture of your kitchen. I am thinking of a similar one for mine. How is your garden doing? Any veggies yet?
The hot dog chili recipe looks so easy and I love that you can freeze it too. I plan on making this tomorrow. I love yur site. It’s the first one I come to when I need recipe ideas for a family get together. My brother in law calls me Vicky Crocker. We all get a laugh out of that.
As a wife (ex) and mother, I’ve rarely gotten to pick my own personal favorite of anything. Love the apron – functional and pretty
I love aprons. My granny used to wear them and I have a few of hers that I got when she passed away but I don’t ever wear one. Now would be a good time to start! And this hot dog chili looks great. Can’t wait to try it!
Hi Christy! Lookin’ good in your new apron!
Keep the yummy recipes coming.
so I’ve been slacking on posting comments… my fault entirely! I always read your emails though
The whole Mortons things got me going today, I’m proud to say that I could remember why without looking it up! But I did end up looking it up anyway to tell my beloved daughter how many grandparents you had… She didn’t believe me and had to see for herself.
So we started chatting about ours, and it hit me real hard that all mine are now gone… Can I borrow one of yours? I’ll return them, eventually
I need to go make those wonderful biscuits you make that remind me of my gram…
Nice apron & Kitchen too. You think wearing a apron will stop those silly holes in my tee shirts?
Love your new kitchen! My family gets a kick out of your posts! We could be kin?
Gwen
YUMMMM! I think I will make this for Father’s Day cookout we are having this weekend! Thanks!
that apron is just precious!
I love your Southern Cookin’! This is another recipe I have to try.
Sounds great! Can’t wait to try it!
Thanks for all the great recipes!
Thank you thank you for a hot dog chili recipe! My husband has always insisted on the yucky canned stuff for our hot dogs because he thinks there’s nothing better, but I plan to prove him wrong with this recipe! BTW, I’d love a classy apron!
I love this chili. Have you ever heard of a cafe in Huntsville called Mullins? It is on Andrew Jackson Way. They have been around for years and they are known for their chili dogs. slaw dogs and hamburgers. They make their chili this way.
I know what you mean about men and cookouts. Everybody in my family loves my husbands steaks and just rave over them. But all he does is put them on the grill. I am the one who marinates them all day and gets them ready just like you said. We went to a marriage thingy at church a few months ago and they showed a video of exactely this scenerio. It was hilarious and so true.
I just love your blog and cant wait to see the new posts every day and the emails. I really want to try that cold coffee recipe.
I GREW UP ON MULLIN’S!!!! We used to live near five points when I was a little girl and even now, I try to take my kids there a few times a year. LOVE MULLINS!!!
I’m so excited to see someone mention them in a post on Southern Plate!!!! LOVE MULLIN’S!!!
Do you miss Zesto’s too?
~GRINNING~
Christy
My parents grew up on Mullin’s, too!
The Lincolnettes meet there some. They meet every month at a different restaurant. MY mother in law and her sister went to Lincoln way back in the day. The Lincoln Reunion is coming up the end of June, so I will be taking her if her sister in law doesnt.I sub there too. It is the best little school and community.Your 5th grade teacher, Patti Moss is a good friend of mine. Love her!!
Yes!! We loved the corn dogs and upside down banana splits. I am taking care of my mother in law (she is 88) and has to go to Mullins EVERY DAY!So they know us very well there.I remember when they were 10 for a dollar. They were better back then though. I just got through grating 3 bars of that soap to make your recipe for laundry detergent.It lools like cheese. Hahaha
Christy, I want you to know that I am VERY offended by that post about Men. Thats just WRONG…I mean if the woman was on the ball she would have already noticed he needed a beer and brought it BEFORE he had to ask…
Do not enter me into the apron contest. Real men do not care if they get food stains on their clothes. It’s not like we have to wash them. Thats what women are for after they make sure we have a beer in our hands.
Crawling back into my Manbearpig cave now….
*waits for backlash…
~sticks her thumbs in her ears, waves her fingers about and sticks out her tongue~
Plllllllllllpt!
I was talkin’ bout my other male readers, Bill. We all know you’re here for the duration on accounta you love me s’much that you can’t stay away!
Yeah well.. Oh ok, ya got me.
~smiles~
..but you still have cooties..:)
Bill — your post is too clever. Don would agree with you, I’m sure. If I win the apron, I’d like to donate it to one of you two. Surely you know a woman who would enjoy wearing it? Tell her to fill a cooler with ice and beer and station it near the grill. =)
Mary, It’s all satire of course. If I really thought that way, my mama would come up out the grave and slap me into next week. I don’t drink alcohol at all. I wash all my own clothes plus my elderly dads and we have the old grease stains on them to prove it.
Don’t want the apron though. The lady making them would have to buy way too many extra yards of material and it might bankrupt her. I’d hate to be the cause of her financial meltdown.
This TEXAN loves chilli and am excited to try one.
Frankie
Sounds great and I love the apron too. We just painted my bedroom in a pretty pale yellow. I love it!!!!
This Florida girl wants an apron! I love all your recipes.
Love your e-mails and recipes. I cannot wait to make the hot dog chili, as the only way to eat a hot dog is grilled with chili and cheese on it! Thanks for sharing! Also, the apron is adorable!
MMMMM! This chili recipe looks so good and it looks really easy. I love chili dogs, can’t wait to try it out! I miss my folks back in Missiouri and Arkansas. I remember my Grandmother and her chocolate gravy, so I was really excited to see that recipe. Thanks for the wonderful job you do everyday!