Big Pigs in a Blanket - making an exquisite Meal With Hot Dogs, Cheese and Crescent Roll Dough

Pigs in a blanket aren't just appetizers. They can be a meal! My house lovingly calls this meal, "Pigs in a Binkie". Why? Because these pigs are Full Size so they need a full-sized blanket. This appetizer is a Meal! You can feed a house of four with this treat.

The raw materials:

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1 8-pack Kosher hot dogs. Koshers have a good potential meat, and they don't "Blow-out" and crack open like cheap hotdogs do. 1 tube of uncooked crescent rolls. You can get these from the refrigerated foods isle at the supermarket. 1.5 lbs medium sharp cheddar cheese. Cut it up into long strips at about 1/2" in width.

Directions:

Preheated your oven to 375F (190C).
Unroll, and cut off your raw crescent roll dough. The individual pieces may be a bit misshapen from the tube they were packed in, so try to mold each back into their former triangle shape, then lay them flat on your clean and cool kitchen counter.
Wipe any moisture from the packaging of the dogs, then slice each, lengthwise, approximately all the way through. When you're done, each dog will be "hinged" but still connected.
Place your sliced cheese chunks into the opportunity of each of the sliced dogs so that the cheese fills the entire length of the crack of the dog.
Next, set each dog onto the longest side of each raw-dough crescent roll triangle. Roll it up until the other end point of the dough is once again touching the widest side that you started with. As you roll, hold the dogs tightly to keep the cheese in place. Then press down, gently, to seal the dough together. Let the dogs rest in this position, with the seam at the bottom, until you are complete rolling the rest.
When finished, place each dog on an ungreased baking sheet, at least an inch (2cm) apart to allow room for dough expansion, then place the sheet on the town rack of your oven. Set your timer for 8 minutes. After that first 8 minutes, turn the pan nearby and halt cooking for someone else 5 to 7 minutes. If the crescent rolls appear to be browning to soon, turn off the oven and let the residual heat halt the baking until the rolls appear golden brown.

When complete, you will have an extra-large hotdog treat with yummy cheddar cheese that will only add to your delight.

If you would like to get creative with the type of hog dogs you use, select precooked kielbasa, Italian sausage, or even bratwurst. All make exquisite Big Pigs!

Have minute piggies in your home? Make minute pigs with cocktail wieners! Instead of using the full sized raw crescent dough triangle, cut each of those in half. Each of those halfs wraps a small cocktail wiener perfectly.

Have a hankering for a different kind of cheese? How about jalapeno, monterey jack, or extra sharp? They are all an exquisite taste expanding to an already awesome idea. Experiment for what tastes good to you.

Do you feel the need to dress them up even more? At our house, we also prepare store-bought ranch dressing and honey mustard for dipping, but you can select anything you like for added flavor.

Enjoy!

Big Pigs in a Blanket - making an exquisite Meal With Hot Dogs, Cheese and Crescent Roll Dough

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making Homemade Dog Treats

What makes manufacture homemade dog treats so cheap is that you can use leftover ingredients and a small number of food can go a long way.

Not only that, but a treat is supposed to be something extra. Since most dogs weigh less than humans, only a itsybitsy bit of food is needed to qualify as a treat. (If your dog is gaining weight or ends up with flatulence, check how many treats your dog is getting from everyone in the family and rule either your dog needs fewer treats, less food, more exercise or a combination.)

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The type of foods you use in manufacture homemade dog treats will depend on several things:

What foods can your dog tolerate? What do you have on hand? What types of foods does your dog prefer? How much time do you have? Do you want to bake or cook or not? Do you plan to feed them to your dog or give them as a gift?

The variety of choices is wide so you are sure to be able to make treats that fit your singular circumstances. You control the ingredients, so you can feed your dog all organic or at least know exactly what nutrients your dog is getting.

Some of the possibilities for manufacture homemade dog treats contain baked items in the form of homemade dog biscuits or a casserole that is then divided into small portions. Biscuits and casserole helpings can often be frozen. Sometimes dogs even enjoy these items in their icy state since they are crunchy and bring cool relief on hot days!

Speaking of cooling a dog down, consider frozen chicken, beef or vegetable stock in ice cube trays, then feeding one to your dog at intervals throughout a broiling day. Just remember to minimize salt, leave out onion powder, and use other spices to flavor them. (Make sure your dog does not choke - if an ice cube is too big, plainly smash it up into smaller bits inside a plastic bag before feeding it to your pooch.)

Another idea for manufacture homemade dog treats is to make smoothies. If you're manufacture yourself a yogurt-and-fruit concoction, why not give a small number to your dog? Most dogs I know think that the foods a man eats are special, and they normally want some too.

Vegetable purees are a separate type of smoothie - creamed spinach, cooked and mashed yams or potatoes, carrot-and-potato or carrot-and-broccoli mash are all things that could be cooked for dinner with a smidgen set aside as a dog treat - or given while you're cooking.

Some ideas for manufacture homemade dog treats that don't want baking contain canapés made from crackers or pieces of bread. So many things can be added as toppings, such as separate types of cheeses, peanut and other nut butters, fruit and vegetable purees, plain butter, meat or fish, fruit and more. You may want to divide a cracker up into small bit and just swipe it into a dip as a treat for a small dog. We advise avoiding items with added salt or sugar.

Chunks of vegetables and slices of fruit can be used in place of crackers or bread, with all sorts of toppings added. Celery, carrots and pieces of peeled broccoli stalk are good with peanut butter and cottage or cream cheese.

Of course, you're not itsybitsy to these ideas for manufacture homemade dog treats. Be as creative as your dog will let you, remembering to avoid foods that are thought about toxic, hazardous or unhealthy for dogs. For more information on those, see the link below.

making Homemade Dog Treats

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