Eatin': Hillbilly Hot Dogs
If you've checked out our blog befo', you know we take our eatin' pretty seriously. And while a few of us around here mainly live on the three B's: Barbecue, Bacon and Bourbon, we do occasionally find sustenance outside that comfort zone.
Hillbilly Hot Dogs, the wildly popular dog house in Lesage, West Virginia serves up fare like “Stacy’s Flu Shot” (a hot dog loaded with jalapenos and topped with homemade chili sauce), “Taco Dog” (complete with sour cream, crunched up nacho chips and more) and “The Homewrecker”, and even offers a “Home Wrecker Challenge” – consume this 15-inch pure beef weenie in under 12 minutes, and you get a free Home Wrecker t-shirt.
Hillbilly Hot Dogs was born in 1999, after owners Sharie and Sonny moved from Sharie’s home state of California back to Sonny’s home state of West Virginia. The weenie stand was built with the help of family members, and the family room area is full of old family relics like 8-track tapes and license plates. There’s even a “Weenie Song”, sung to the tune of the old vaudevillian hit “That’s Where My Money Goes.” It all adds up to quite the scene there in West Virginia.
Hillbilly Hot Dogs has proven so popular that Sharie and Sonny opened up a second location in Huntington. And the original stand even got a lot of national love recently, with The Food Network’s hit show “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” stoppin' by with the cameras to see what was cookin’. So if yer ever in their neck of the woods, and you hear a banjo, run. Otherwise stop on in and take a crack at becomin' the Weenie King by tacklin' the Homewrecker - The current king did it in 4 minutes. Or you can have a homewrecker shipped to ya in the big city.
You can check out Hillbilly Hot Dogs for yerself at www.hillbillyhotdogs.com. Heck, they’re even on Facebook now at www.facebook.com/hillbillyhotdogs.
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Eatin': Suuuuueeeeeeeet. Part II
We're sittin' on top of the world...thanks to the beautiful and talented chocolatier, Katrina Markoff at Vosges Haut-Chocolat. Bacon Caramel Toffee. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Eatin': Pig Candy
That's right, candy made out of bacon.
Suuuuueeeeeeeet! Check out the recipe from instructables right here.
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Livin': Sweet Jesus! Bacon & Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Straight from Heaven comes Mo's Bacon Chocolate Chip Pancake Mix.
These buttermilk pancakes are spotted with chunks of Mo's Bacon Bar which combines applewood smoked bacon and Alder sea salt with deep milk chocolate. Each batch yields approximately 8, 5–inch pancakes. 2 batches per container. Available at vosgeschocolate.com.
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Eatin': Mo’s Bacon Bar
Quite possibly the world's most perfect food! If ya haven't tasted this lil' sucker, you haven't lived. From the beautiful mind of Katrina Markoff and her wonderful company, Vosges Haut-Chocolat, comes Mo's Bacon Bar. Applewood smoked bacon + Alder wood smoked salt + deep milk chocolate, and boasting 41% cacao (that's the fancy way they're ratin' top-shelf chocolate these days.) Here's the lowdown on how they ended up with THE two great tastes that taste great together!
"I began experimenting with bacon + chocolate at the tender age of 6, while eating chocolate chip pancakes drenched in Aunt Jemima® syrup, as children often do. Beside my chocolate-laden cakes laid three strips of sizzlin' bacon, just barely touching a sweet pool of maple syrup. And then, the magic—just a bite of the bacon was too salty and I yearned for the sweet kiss of chocolate and syrup, so I combined the two. In retrospect, perhaps this was a turning point; for on that plate something magical happened, the beginnings of a combination so ethereal and delicious that it would haunt my thoughts until I found the medium to express it—chocolate.
From there, it was just a matter of time…and what began as a love of salt and sweet quickly unraveled into an obsession. No sooner could I wait to unveil the royal coupling in solid bar form, a deep milk chocolate with bits and pieces of applewood smoked bacon and just a sprinkling of Alder salt. Really, what doesn't taste better with bacon?"
– Katrina Markoff
Available at vosgeschocolat.com. $7.50 a pop, but worth every finger lickin' cent.
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