Candied Hot Dogs on a stick for kids!

If you have kids you'll know that they get tired of things real quick. Our 6 year old Ty was getting sick of plain hot dogs, so I had to sweeten things up a bit. I ended up loving them myself! For this I ended up using hot dogs that had already been grilled. We have kids over a lot so we always have lot's of hot dogs left over.

Ingredients

- Hot Dogs

- Skewers

- 1 plate filled with Maple Syrup

- 1 plate filled with Brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg 

Directions

Sorry I don't have a lot of pictures but I just threw these together. They we're so good I had to post them up. Anyways, Skewer up your Hot Dogs. Take a sharp knife and score the outside of the dog many times but not too deep. Just enough to create a rough surface so everything sticks to it.

Roll the dogs in the Maple syrup, then in the Brown sugar mixture. Coat them with as much as you can!

Once you have them rolled up, I would stick them on a paper plate in the fridge for about 10 or 15 minutes to harden up the glaze. Some will fall off, it's not a huge deal! If you know another trick, feel free and bust it out.

Once they have sat in the fridge for a little bit, toss them on the grill. Grill them until the glaze has formed a nice caramelized outer surface. 

  

The kids will love them. 

Here's some of the kids I love to feed! Our good friends the Neely's, and my wife Angela, and son Tyler are in the top right wearing red!

Ham Wrapped Hawaiian Chicken Skewers with Pineapple-Soy Glaze

Ingredients

- 2 boneless chicken breasts cubed

- 1 can pineapple chunks

- 1lb deli ham with a decent thickness

- skewers 

Glaze

- 1 cup soy

- 1 cup Pineapple Juice

- 2 tbsp crushed red pepper

- 1 tbsp garlic fresh or powder

- 1/2 tbsp ground ginger

- 2 tbsp brown sugar

- 1/4 cup of EVOO

Directions

Mix up ingredients for Glaze, set aside. Cut your ham so it's large enough to fit around your chicken chunks. Wrap a piece of ham around a piece of chicken and put it on the skewer to hold the ham and chicken together. Add a piece of Pineapple in between each piece of ham wrapped chicken. Make it tight to keep it all together.

Add your skewers to a hot grill. Sear each side of the kabobs without burning the ham. You will notice, the ham actually start to wrap itself around the chicken as it cooks.

Since I'm using ham I like to cook with Hickory or Mesquite. So I have added Hickory chunks to my lump charcoal (which I always use) to give it a nice smoky flavor.

Anyway! back to the grilling! Like I said make sure you have a nice char on your kabobs!

Once you get a crust you like you can move them off of the hot side and start glazing them. When I remove meat or chicken from the hot side of the grill I like to keep my meat cooking at 225. 

Just keep glazing them and checking the internal temperature until they reach your desires temp. Make sure you keep the grill top closed so you have consistent temperature. If it gets too low add a little more coal or wood. If it gets too hot, open up your dampers or crack the lid a little.

Once they are done, top them with some chopped green onion, and serve with some kind of tropical Rum drink. As always!