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    Home » Everything Amish » Plain Culture

    Carrot Dogs? Experience and Recipe...

    Published: Jun 18, 2018 · Updated: Jun 18, 2018 by Kevin Williams | 2 Comments

    By Kevin Williams

    Okay, if someone had told me I'd be doing a post where I raved about eating a "carrot dog" I would have questioned your sanity.  Carrots do not top the list of my favorite foods.  So, why did I get a carrot dog in the first place?  Well, I do like to try different foods, challenge my comfort zones, etc, so I thought, why not?  Let's try the carrot dog.

    I ignored the $7 price tag ($7, for a carrot on a bun?  No) and plunged ahead.  I mean, you can't buy truly good food cheap, there's labor and fresh ingredients involved, so, no, you can't compare the price of a specialty item vs. a packaged Kahn's wiener.

    Man, was I in for a pleasant surprise.  I'm not sure how they cooked it, had I not been chasing around my kids I probably would have stood there and watched.  But the flavors were so wonderful, so smoky...that could have been a dog off the backyard barbecue.  It was amazing.

    Of course, I go online and apparently "carrot dogs" are a thing and I didn't know that.

    By the way, I also had a lima bean and corn salad (I'm not crazy about lima beans) and that, too, was amazing.

    Wow, all I can is, Wow

    corn and lima beans

     

    Now, I will say that, at the end of the day, a carrot dog is just that: a carrot.  So with my gargantuan appetite, I can't say that I was stuffed after eating it.  I could easily have downed two or three of these, but at $7 a pop that was a non-starter.  Aster didn't eat much of her eggs so I was able to poach those from her plate and I was full.  But, yeah, if you are looking to get stuffed these carrot dogs won't do it, but otherwise, wow, try a carrot dog!

    Mine came from Invoke at the 2nd Street Market in Dayton, Ohio.

    Okay, you can learn how to make your own Carrot Dogs here.  Again, apparently it's a thing....And here is another recipe.  Geez, if you made them at home and went easy on the bun, geez, you eat 5 or 6 at a time and probably wouldn't be bad for you....

     

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    About Kevin Williams

    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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    1. Mary

      June 19, 2018 at 4:46 pm

      Kevin, I made the carrot dogs and they were very good. They even smelled like hot dogs cooking. I did not use on a roll, just as a side dish. I will make them again.

      Hope somebody else tries them. They were a surprise.

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      • Kevin

        June 19, 2018 at 4:54 pm

        Glad to hear they were good, and that you liked them. I was truly amazed...a CARROT that TASTES like a hot dog???? I'd have called you crazy a few days ago!

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