Pumpkin Wednesday and Party Food: Day 3

Pumpkin is a very simple cat.

She loves to hang out in her $7 cat tent from Ikea 

She only eats inexpensive dry cat food

And she could be entertained for days with nothing but toys with feathers.  

                                


















In honor of her simplicity, tonight's party food recipe is the simplest (even easier than the olive-cheeseballs!) but was the most sought after appetizer.  I present to you...cheesey pigs in a blanket.

Ingredients:
Hot Dogs
American Cheese Slices
Crescent roll dough

Directions:
Preheat the oven to the temperature specified on the crescent roll dough package.  Get a cookie sheet and cover with parchment paper.  The parchment paper makes for easy clean up because the cheese sometimes oozes out of the pigs in a blanket.

Prep-Cut hot dogs in half long ways.  Then cut each piece into three giving you six mini hot dog pieces.  Repeat with an eight count package of hot dogs, and set aside.  Wipe down your cutting board and grab a few slices of cheese.  Unwrap and cut (while the cheese is still on the wrapper) into three or four strips, and then cut each cheese strip in half.  Next break open the can of crescent roll dough.  Unroll the dough and cut small strips out of each individual crescent roll.  Your slices don't have to be exact, just try to make them be in proportion with your hot dog pieces.

Assembly- Set the strip of crescent roll dough down.  Place hot dog with cheese strip on it at one end of the dough and roll.  Place on parchment paper lined cookie sheet and place in the oven.  Cook for about 8-12 minutes.  The timing really depends on the size of your "pigs."  I usually wait until the crescent roll looks a bit brown.

Remove from the oven and insert toothpicks for easy snacking.  You can put out ketchup or mustard for dipping, but the pigs are pretty delicious on their own.


What's a childhood snack you can't get enough of as a 20-something/adult?

-A little closer to the weekend!