Group: rec.food.cooking Date: Thu, Oct 4, 2007, 11:13pm From:
(Nancy*Young)
<<<Arri, I took a beating when I described Italian hot dogs.
Poor people don't know what they're missing.
nancy >>>
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Im Italian who grew up in Newarl,NJ in the 40,s-50,s.,when South Orange
Ave-Westside Park was the Italian section.
The ingredients and quality of food was much better back then.This was
during the war when I was very little.Eggs tasted like eggs,chickens
were tastier.Most of our families had little gardens in the yards
growing tomatoes,herbs and various vegetables..Whole days were spent
making spaghetti sauces,raised our own chickens.When my great
grandparents came over from Genoa they opened a chicken market in
Belleville Nj.Italian hotdogs were something my mother and grandmother
used to make all the time.or we,d buy them at the St Roccos Catholic
feasts of the Saints once a year.,or Coney Island and Seaside
heights.The ones made today just not the same somehow.Ive heard all the
eeews and whats also...dont know what they,re missing.

ITALIAN HOTDOGS
Family recipe

1 pkg GOOD beef hotdogs
4 or 5 lg potatoes cubed or sliced in strips
3 green peppers-cut in strips
1 med onion-cut in strips
3 cloves garlic-minced
Olive Oil
salt-pepper to taste
2 loaves of any round italiian flat bread

In large heavy skillet over med heat,add olive oil and garlic
till slightly browned.Remove garlic to the side.
Add potatoes and saute till slightly browned amd softend--add onions and
peppers.Lower heat and cook (stirring and watching till done.Remove all
to a bowl
and set aside
Add hotdogs to oil and raise to med.More oil can be added now if needed.
They can be added whole,coined,or split down the middle,whatever your
preference(whole is better).Fry till theyre the way you like them,Some
prefer slightly browned-some like almost blackened-your choice.
Put garlic.onions,peppers back into skillet with hotdogs,toss
lightly.till all ingredients are heated thru.Cover and renove from heat
and let lavors meld.
Slice the round bread in halves if small,in quarters if large.If they
are cut in half rounds make a pocket in the bread.
Add a layer of potatoes,peppers,onions,garlic,then hotdog slices,then
repeat with onion,garlic pepers ,potatoes.Drizzle a little hot oil from
the pan.It will NOT be greasy.The flavor combo is to die for.
The breads originally used for this was from a bakery in NJ called
Celantanos,which also sold pasta.It was called "pizza bread"(no not
pita),was about 2 inches thick, round with a hole in the center.
Have had 'modern' fancy versions of this,but it not at all like the
originals.
Cheers,Smitty

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