Friday, April 23, 2010

Silly Spaghetti Dogs

Confession time. Yes, I serve hot dogs to my oldest. She doesn't have them all of the time but they are on the lunch rotation.
Silly Spaghetti Dogs
I had seen some silly hot dog business on a few websites and decided yesterday that we needed to instill some of that same silliness into our lunch. I taught Peanut how to make Silly Spaghetti Dogs. She had great fun poking the uncooked spaghetti noodles in the hot dog pieces.

Silly Spaghetti Dogs
They do look a bit strange sitting there waiting for the water to boil.
Silly Spaghetti Dogs
Next I dunked them in the boiling water and waited for the noodles to cook. They were even sillier after being cooked. Peanut thought they were great.
Silly Spaghetti Dogs
They were so easy to make. Peanut got to help make them and then got quite a kick out of her lunch. This is certainly not something we would do everyday but now and then.
Silly Spaghetti Dogs
I do have to share a funny story regarding this creation. I sent my hubby a picture via our cell phones of Peanut eating her Silly Spaghetti Dog while he was at school. I try to do this off and on so he can see his sweeties throughout his chaotic days. Anyways...later we were talking about it and he asked, "How in the world did you get the spaghetti in the hot dog? Did you poke a hole with a toothpick and string it through?" HAHA!

I assured him that we had poked the uncooked noodles through so it was easy and I had not boiled them and threaded them through a needle to poke through the hot dog.

2 comments:

Holly said...

too funny! (and a bit gross... ha!) but thanks for the idea! will have to try that with my girls :)

Colleen said...

This is a great idea! You should have told him that you spent hours threading the spaghetti through the hotdogs with a needle like any supermom would do.