Pantry Purge 2011 has Come Down to Hot Dogs

I have done a terrible job of keeping track of the days over the last week. I know that we have been doing this for 19 days and we still have a long ways to go!! We have been very creative and the kids are even on board with it, which I'd say is a testament to the meals being as tasty as they are unique.

Here are a couple of highlights from the last couple of weeks:

Last week I posted about the pork tacos. Well that meal left us with some leftovers that made it easy to make some black bean and rice burritos. I threw some cilantro, tomatoes, a jalapeno, 1/2 an onion and some salt into a food processor and made some faux salsa. I set that aside and heated up the griddle. Once heated, I laid some whole wheat tortillas on the griddle and covered them with grated cheddar cheese, a scoop of the leftover cilantro lime rice, some canned black beans, a little of the salsa and some cilantro. Once the cheese was melted, I rolled them up into burritos and covered them with a little more salsa and cilantro. They were really good and SUPER easy!! I served them with some left over cabbage slaw from the pork tacos and some of the leftover rice.

Tonight the Pantry Purge cleaned out some hot dogs. I was really intimidated with what to do with them, but the dinner has earned the name Haute Daug Delight and it was really yummy.

Haute Daug Delight

4 medium tomatoes, processed in food processor
1 medium onion, roughly chopped
1 red pepper, chopped
3 stalks celery
3 cloves garlic
2 tsp olive oil
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
1/4 tsp celery seed
1/2 tsp italian seasoning
salt and pepper to taste
4 hot dogs
1/2 package egg noodles, cooked according to package

Heat olive oil in wok. Add onion and season with red pepper flakes, salt, pepper, celery seed, and italian seasoning. Once starting to turn translucent, add garlic. Cook until fragrant. Add celery and red pepper. Cook for 2 minutes. Add tomatoes from food processor. Bring to a boil and then add hot dogs. Bring to a simmer for 5 minutes. Add cooked egg noodles. Simmer for 5 more minutes and serve.


Who knew hot dogs could taste so good!? My next challenge is to turn a bag of frozen hash browns into dinner. This one is going to take some creativity! Wish me luck! :)