go green...eat cookie dough

tonight, we joined our neighbors for another culinary experimentation...sonoran hotdogs.  the recipe was something our neighbor discovered on a recent trip to tucson.  basically, it is a hotdog (any variety will do - all beef, turkey, natural casing, kosher (well maybe not since it was wrapped in bacon and smothered with cheese), or the kind with all those unmentionable animal parts if you so dare.  the dog is wrapped in a strip of bacon and cooked in a skillet on the grill.  when it is done, the crisp, bacon-y dog is shoved into a mexican roll and covered with beans, cheese, onion, tomato, salsa verde, green chiles and then drizzled with ketchup, mustard, and mayo, of all things.  delish!!

we have known our neighbors for over 7 years and have talked about a lot of things, but tonight, it seemed like most of our conversation involved food. it was almost like an episode of "the best thing i ever ate" on food network.  while we were enjoying our sonoran hotdogs and a nice, cold beer or three on this warm and hair-curling-ly humid evening, my daughter was at home making us dessert...chocolate chip cookies, you know the break and bake kind (all great moms have a pack of these tasty morsels at the ready, anytime day or night...they cure anything!).  when they were baked to perfection in precisely 9 minutes, she brought us a platter of warm cookies.  in no time, the cookies were devoured and the conversation turned to cookie dough...i mean, really what else is there to talk about.  we discussed which cookie dough is the best, how to stuff cookie dough into a wonton wrapper and cook it without an explosion of some kind, and easy ways to split a tube of dough between a group of co-eds, and we even pondered the possibility of deep-frying cookie dough.  what we discovered is that everyone loves to eat cookie dough.  it is universal.  why even bother baking, stuffing, or frying it?  like most things in life, it is best in its pure state.  think of all the time (waiting for the cookies to bake) and energy (that of the oven and of the baker who has to break apart all those little squares o' dough) we could save.  so to do my part in reducing my carbon footprint, i have decided to "go green...eat cookie dough".  my new mmmm...mantra.

sonoran hotdog from sunset.com