Memorial Day Lunch - Hotdogs! with home-baked bread.

What a lovely day in Ames, Iowa. This morning, I baked cute hot dog buns for lunch. Stan likes to enjoy hot dogs for this holiday. Here is our Memorial Day lunch on our backyard patio.

• Hot dogs with Kosher Franks (Hebrew Nationals) in home-baked buns
• Egg sandwich
• Potato salad with beets and fresh dill
• Cole slaw salad with Thai dressing

No grilling this year. I boiled the Kosher franks with my favorite Chinese pepper corns (two kinds). Healthier, of, course. Also made a "classic Japanese egg sandwich in a hot dog bun."

To make this sandwich, here is a recipe for the filling:

Easy, healthy, and creamy Egg Salad:

• 1 Soft boiled egg
• Light Mayonnaise (as much as you like - for me it was about 1 Tbs)
• Salt & Pepper to taste
• a pinch of Sugar
• 1/2 tsp of water (this is the secret ingredient, yes, please try! If you like "hard boiled eggs", increase to 1 tsp per egg)
• Dill (fresh or dry)

Mix all together. Fast way to get your hard boiled eggs ready for a salad or deviled egg dish? Use a whisk! Very fast (no more folk, egg slicer to do this job!).

Here is a recipe for the home-baked hot dog buns. They are soft and delicious. Much better than store-bought ones :-) I baked 8 buns (2 small ones for my princess).

Hot Dog Buns (Koppe Pan in Japanese) makes 6-7 regular size buns
Kosher Parve

• 200g Bread flour
• 50g All purpose flour
• 20 g Sugar
• 4g Salt
• 165cc Unsweetened soy milk
• 20g beat egg (about 1/2 egg - leave the remaining for brushing the top before baking)
• 4 g dry yeast (about 1tsp)
• 30 g Parve margarine

Mix first five ingredients. Warm soy milk in a microwave until warm (be careful not to warm too much - the heat will kill the yeast). Mix the warm soy milk with dry yeast - bubbles will form.

Warm Parve margarine in a microwave just until melts.

Mix the dry and wet ingredients. Kneed about 5-10 min. (by hands or a Mixer) - add melted Parve margarine. Kneed until the dough becomes smooth. Let it rise for about one hour.

Divide the dough in six or seven. Rest the dough for 10 minutes.
Shape them in hot dog buns - let it rise for about 40 minutes. When the dough become double in size, brush the top with the remaining egg.

Bake them in a 350F degree oven for 15-17 miniutes.



Enjoy!


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