Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Current mood: craving
Category: craving Food and Restaurants

I was a picky eater growing up. I survived mostly on hot dogs and sloppy joes. My parents gave up on forcing me to eat other stuff, and wound up most nights making a single hot dog along with whatever else was being made for the rest of the family.

During my teen years my parents were somewhat MIA (as were many parents of my friends’). For this time period I survived on Mac N Cheese at home, and Taco Bell tostadas, and Olga Dogs at Olga’s.

One of the few disappointments I’ve had with California is, there are no Olga’s Restaurants out here. What gives!

I recently told Jon that after living here for 20 years I’m just now coming to terms with the fact that I will never have another Olga Dog in my life. (weeping)

Jon said “Why don’t you make them yourself?”

Obsessive idiot that I am, I went ahead with this project, and it was an adequate success. I mean I could never make an actual Olga Dog — Olga guards all her recipes — but it was close enough to make me very very happy!

Today I was in the kitchen chopping up onion bits and Jon came in. I warned him this would be the first and last time he ever saw me do anything even CLOSE to actual cooking. LOL

Those reading this who know me well, will be amazed that I did even these few little steps just to have a pseudo-Olga-Dog.

Olga Sauce (kinda)

2 parts Greek yogurt
1 part sour cream
li’l bit garlic
li’l bit cayenne pepper

Mix and put in frige overnight

Lunch next day:

Microwave hotdog partway (half min?)

Put pita on plate and load on:
Olga Sauce
Olga 3-cheese (swiss cheese, cheddar cheese, colbyjack)
li’l bit chopped onion
li’l bit chopped cucumber
More cayenne pepper (beCAUSE! lol)
Curly fries (yes, directly into the Olga Dog, several curly fries. we got today’s curly fries from Jack in the Box)

Drop the hotdog on top of this

Microwave it all the rest of the way (half min?)

Roll it all up in the pita and eat your Olga Dog while Olga Sauce dribbles all over the place.

Yes, it’s basically a Gyro with hot dog meat and nummy warm sauce instead of crappy cold sauce. Olga knows that. I know that. But gyros don’t come close!

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