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[Josh Karpf]

Lovely spouse volunteered us for making pigs in the blanket for two friends' wedding. Yay. I love pigs in the blanket, though for two decades I haven't had any except premade Costco's.

 

Lovely spouse doesn't want us to practice making them tonight, for dinner. That means she doesn't actually like pigs in the blanket. So practice may be replaced by a thought experiment.

 

I expect Hebrew National hot dogs (skinless; apparently no skin variety) and Pillsbury crescent-roll dough to be easiest to find in NYC supermarkets. And Hebrew National will be the more popular choice even though I prefer Nathan's. Maybe Nathan's is also too local a flavor. The guests will be arty urban locals plus mountainside Carolinians.

 

Does anyone sear the hot dogs' skin before wrapping for baking? We'll be baking them before bringing them on a hotel pan. I don't know if we can reheat at the site, so it'd be nice if searing could add some flavor. And should they be served cut up or whole?

 

Maybe I should have a non-thought-experiment for lunch.

[splinky]

please use mini cocktail weiners, so that there's not a huge greasy mess ruining people's clothing. biscuit dough and bagel dough work well also dufour puff pastry sheets which you can buy at fairway and similar markets. even pepperidge farms has puff pastry sheets. the crescent rolls are just salty and greasy.

[Josh Karpf]

Sounds like good advice, though the barbecue that will predominate at this wedding may make greasy messes moot.

[joethefoodie]

splinky has good advice.  When I was catering, we used puff dough and mini hot dogs (Nathan's or HN). They could be easily heated up in a rented toaster oven.

[voyager]

All of above good advice.    Plus Pillsbury crescents have a very (meh) discernible flavor.    Not much more work to cut up puff dough.

 

Re keeping your pigs warm, do you have any leftover bricks or tiles on hand?     I've been very successful transporting hot food by wrapping heated tiles in kitchen towels and foil and layering food over.   

[Josh Karpf]

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Re keeping your pigs warm, do you have any leftover bricks or tiles on hand?     I've been very successful transporting hot food by wrapping heated tiles in kitchen towels and foil and layering food over.   

 

Finally, a use for my pizza baking stone.

[prasantrin]

Brush dough with mustard before rolling. Agree on the mini cocktail wieners, though I have cut up really good European wieners into mini pieces. I like Pillsbury wrappers, but yes, very salty and odd aftertaste, but it reminds me of my childhood, so I'm ok with that. I use the wiener wrappers, specifically, and cut them in half because I don't like too much bread. If I were going to use puff pastry, I'd make sausage rolls. Tastier.

[Sneakeater]

I thought as a child that when I was grown up, I’d be eating pigs in blankets like all the time.

Along with the rocket pack, another unfulfilled promise.

[Wilfrid]

I thought I would be able to eat cheese and onion flavored crisps (potato chips) all day.  Fortunately, at some point, I lost the taste for them.

[Orik]

I was at a retro themed event recently and nobody wanted the piabs, or at least nobody wanted to be seen to want them. 

[voyager]

Pillsbury burnout?

[Josh Karpf]

I will experiment for lunch tomorrow, I think.

 

Till then, here's something weird I've just noticed: When I'm reading this topic while logged out of MF, some keywords become links to products, sometimes very irrelevant products. joethefoodie's suggestion to "[use] puff dough and mini hot dogs" linked "mini hot dogs" to "eFrutti Gummi Candy Variety Party Pack: Pizzas, Mini Burgers, Sour Mini Burgers, Hot dogs, Cup Cake, Sea Creature."

 

Is this VigLink-ing new to MF when logged out, or have I not noticed it before?

[Wilfrid]

I was at a retro themed event recently and nobody wanted the piabs, or at least nobody wanted to be seen to want them. 

 

I was at Pernod-Ricard event recently, and I ate as many as possible.  I wasn't the only one.

[Orik]

And what does that tell you about the brand? 

 

I'm thinking of a piab style Sai Ua. 

[Wilfrid]

They spend more on the booze than the buffet?