Pot & Cover

Scott was craving chili dogs...so he browned some sausage and I made Jennifer McNeely's coney chili sauce, YUM!

Grandma was still in town...we'd eaten a lot of beans and a few fried weinies.  Fried weinies are way better than they have a right to be.  They are the inspiration for this meal.  While we (Grandma & I) were getting her beans warmed up one holiday night, she opened a package of weinies, split them length wise and proceeded to fry them in a bit of bacon fat in the cast iron skillet.  Mind you, my Grandma probably weighs 110lbs...not a big lady..sweet and petite...so it was curious to me that she was frying weinies.  I'd grown up with my family (Eaton side) eating weinies in all stages, cold, fried...any which way.  I honestly thought they were pretty "low brow" and actually disgusting cold.  But they were ever present, alongside a great array of simple yet delicious food...and I do like a good old fashioned hot dog...but fried or cold? no.  My dad always made "special hot dogs" too while we were growing up...split and fried the same way, but h...