Chili Dogs

Hello! This is my very first post. I don't have anything spectacular to start off with. I didn't want to wait until I had the inspiration to cook up something awesome to start blogging. I only had a piece of Ezekiel cinnamon raisin bread with blueberry jam and natural chunky peanut butter for breakfast. I just now got around to fixing lunch so I wanted to make something fast and delicious. I decided to make these on a whim a few of weeks ago and have had them three times since.



CHILI DOGS
Servings: 4
Time: about 10-15 minutes

Ingredients:

4 vegan hot dog buns (i used Nature's Own whole wheat; just use the healthiest ones you can find)
4 vegan hot dogs, brats or italian sausages (i have tried both Tofurky italian sausages and bratwursts, the italian tasted much better)
1 can of vegan chili (i used Amy's spicy)
1 small onion
Mustard
Earth Balance

1. Heat the chili in a small pot on medium heat.
2. Heat a small amount of olive oil in a small pan.
3. Butter the buns with Earth Balance and toast them. I put them in the toaster oven on broil and keep a close watch while preparing everything else. This way the tops get toasty, but the bottoms stay soft.
4. Put the sausages/brats/dogs in the pan and brown on all sides.
5. While they are browning, dice the onion. I throw about three fourths of the total onion into the pan a couple minutes before they are finished, just enough to get a nice aroma and break down the raw onion a bit.
6. The only thing left is assembly: take out the buns and put the sausages in them. Top with mustard, raw onion and cooked onion. Finish it off with as much chili as the bun will hold and you're done.

So this is just a simple lunch construction. Most of the stuff I will be posting on here will be from made from scratch dinner recipes or desserts. I love baking!