I’ve always had a thing for recreating food that seems like it should only be available from a can or at a carnival. Once I spent an entire day recreating Libby’s Alphagetti. It took about 5 hours to get perfect!

Another thing I used to love to make was corn dogs! You could buy the mix for pogo dogs at the grocery store back in 98 and I bought it all the time! Haven’t seen it in years though. And since hotdogs are one of the meat products I’ve never been able to go back to after I started eating meat again, I’ve been living a corn dogless life. Until it hit me the other day. Make your own damn Pogos! It can’t be that hard! I did a little Google research and it was so easy. I’m kicking myself that I didn’t do this way earlier. So here it is, the recipe for corn dogs:

Corn Dog Recipe

1 cup of masa flour (or yellow cornmeal)

1 cup of all purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon of salt

1/4 cup of white sugar

1 egg

1 cup of milk (or buttermilk)

1 1/2 tbsp of baking powder

7 or 8 hotdogs

1. Boil your hot dogs, drain the water and let cool.

2. combine all you dry ingredients in a bowl, then slowly mix in the egg and milk.

3. If you have a deep fryer that’s great but if you don’t fill a pan with vegetable/corn/peanut oil. I turn it on high for a couple minutes until it’s super hot then I turn it down pretty low (just less than medium heat) and wait about 4 minutes.

4. This is the tricky part, cover the dog in batter and make it smooth by rolls in like you are making a Playdough snake. If it’s too sticky add more flour or masa, if it’s too dry add more milk.

5. Lightly roll it in flour.

6. Fry it! If it turns dark brown right away you know the oil is too hot. If it isn’t bubbling at all the oil needs to be hotter.

7. Once both sides are a nice golder brown you have a corn dog ready to eat. If you want to get fancy put a popsicle stick in it and enjoy!