Sauerkraut and Weenies (& Your Favorite Po’Folks Food!)

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When I was little, we couldn’t wait for supper each night. Mama always put together budget meals, not because she was  trying to scale back on expenses, but because we barely had enough to feed us all and a “budget meal” was just a nice way of saying we could make a single pound of ground beef stretch for two meals.

This is one of my dear favorite meals as a girl and still is. It is a prime example of what I call “poor folks food”, and so very good! Oh goodness I’m getting hungry. I see this meal and I feel like a little girl with two pony tails coming in from playing outside, just barely stopping as I ran into the house and took my seat at our table. Remember how we’d fly through that front door  when Mama called us for supper? Coming in all breathless and hot, and just as you hit the door you’d get a whiff of what was cooking and realize that you were starving.

Raise your hand if you had a dirt necklace every night when you were a kid! ~raises hand proudly~

Now I realize some folks are just not sauerkraut fans. Chances are, I lost ’bout half of you in the title of this post, but the funny thing is what happened to the other half! Some of y’all saw that title and your mouth started watering, you clicked on it to see the photo and your stomach started growling, and chances are pert dern good that you’ll be having this for supper tonight. Those who don’t fit into this category, feel free to think of the rest of us as weird, we won’t mind and there will be more sauerkraut for us!

This is one of those meals that is great with slices of polish sausage but I still like to cook it how Mama did growing up, just by chopping up a few weenies and cooking until the kraut and weenies brown a bit. It is divine served with a side of pintos and a big old slice of cornbread. Mmmmm, thats good eating right there.

You can add as many weenies or sausage as you like and if you’re vegetarian, just get some vegan hot dogs and keep on keeping on.

You’ll need: Sauerkraut and weenies.

You’ll also season with salt and pepper. How many weenies you use is up to you. We used to have to determine this based on how many we had, so to be able to use as many as you want is a big step up nowadays.

I have a friend from Germany ~waves to Gudrun~ who swears by the bagged sauerkraut so I started buying it and now I’m a convert, too. You can get it in the refrigerated section near the weenies usually and sometimes near the deli if they have a refrigerated section there as well. Mama likes the kind you get in a glass jar and we’ve both used the kind that comes in a can (which you get on the vegetable aisle). Overall, they are all good and there isn’t a lot of price difference so it is up to you to pick  your favorite .

Slice your weenies and put them in a large skillet.

Add in about two cups of sauerkraut.

Cook this over medium to medium high heat, stirring often.

Season with salt to taste.

And pepper to taste.

You can start with 1/4 teaspoon of salt and 1/8 teaspoon of pepper and then adjust to make it just right for you.

You can cook this until your weenies and sauerkraut get a little browned or you can just cook it until everything is heated through.

It sure does look nice if you brown it but I can never wait that long.

Now here is a supper from the old days!

Tell me about your favorite “Poor Folks Food” growing up in the comments section below!

You are welcome to chat with each other in the comments as we all reminisce.

This is our big old dinner table and we’re all family here!

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Sauerkraut and Weenies

Ingredients

• 2-4 weenies (or polish sausage)
• 2 Cups sauerkraut
• Salt and Pepper to taste

Instructions

1. Slice weenies into small pieces. Place in skillet over medium to medium high heat. Add Sauerkraut. Cook, stirring often, until kraut and weenies brown slightly. Salt and pepper to taste. Serve hot.

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Suggested Accompaniments:

Pintos

Dixie Cornbread

Mama Reed’s Fruit Cocktail Cake

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Posted by Christy Jordan on Sep 3 2010. Filed under Main Course, Quick&Easy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry