Jellyfish Hot Dogs
Posted by Nancy Wu on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009Tags for this Article: children's meals, hot dogs, jellyfish, noodles, Pasta, pecorino romano, tomato sauce
You heard me, that’s what I made my son for lunch today…and it was actually pretty good. The idea for it came when I saw this posting at BoingBoing.net. I found it amusing that they made something he likes seeing at the aquarium out of two of his favorite food groups: beef hot dogs & noodles. I realized we had all the ingredients to try this out, so here goes…
First step was cutting up a couple hot dogs into the jellyfish caps, allowing for enough room to stab the raw noodles into.
We used regular spaghetti noodles which sometimes break with handling. Take in mind how much they expand; these were snapped in half and pushed in about 2/3rds in.
Into the salted boiling water…the noodles got soft soon enough and started to look pretty cool.
As the BoingBoing article showed, the noodles do stay connected to the hot dogs (although they don’t cook as well inside the mystery meat and are slightly crunchy). Adding some Classico tomato sauce and grated Pecorino Romano took it up a notch and made it both very tasty and kid friendly.
See? I still prefer eating real jellyfish but this is certainly a fun start…enjoy!
Posted on April 22nd, 2009
Joseph Wu says:
What, no credit given to the tentacle inserter? :)
Posted on April 22nd, 2009
Ben Garfinkel says:
Once we bring ourselves to feed Lila mystery meat, we’re so making this for her!
Posted on April 23rd, 2009
Eagranie says:
The cuteness. I can’t stand it.
Posted on May 3rd, 2009
Steph & Todd says:
I don’t think you have to be a kid to enjoy this, we’re doing this tonight for dinner. Awesome!
Posted on May 6th, 2009
Karen says:
How kid friendly! Can’t wait till my godson is old enough to serve this to him.
Posted on May 15th, 2009
Mark Busse says:
Now THIS is what I’m talking about. I’m making this for sure. Nice one Nancy—thanks for sharing.
Posted on February 8th, 2011
Kendra says:
I’ve seen this recipe before, but wanted to google it to make sure I knew all the steps. LOVED your pictures :)
Posted on July 12th, 2011
Reneth says:
Thank you for sharing Ben..! Im totally going to get this idea and share to all the daycare providers I know (who provide meals.
I have planned to have it done this coming Wednesday with my assisstant Lila. Im sure, we will have video + pictures galore. :)
Cheers! What a neat idea and thank you, Im all excited about this.
Posted on July 12th, 2011
Mark Busse says:
Made these with a couple friends’ kids this weekend and we had a hoot. Here are some photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bengarfinkel/sets/72157627049126721/
Posted on May 16th, 2014
Nancy Wu says:
It’s now 2014 and the recipe still applies except I’d use Barilla pasta, Paul Newman’s marinara sauce and the best 100% beef dogs I could find (does Oyama or Cutter Ranch make em?)