The Impatient Chef Recipe: Pigs in a Blanket

They’re super easy, and quick.  Using puff pastry adds a little French cachet to an otherwise delightfully low-brow treat for kids, both young and old.

Thanks to Gaia Quay for the idea.

You will need:

• 1 package of 8 hot dogs. 
• 1 package puff pastry (2 sheets) thawed
• 8 slices cheese (I prefer cheddar)
• 1 egg, beaten
• flour for rolling
• A little warm water

Directions: 

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Spread flour on the rolling surface.  With a rolling pin, roll out the puff pastry until it’s about a third bigger that it started.  each sheet needs to be able to cover 4 hot dogs with a little room for closing the ends and pinching them closed.  
3. Cut each sheet into 4 squares.  Lay a hot dog on each.  Add a slice of cheese to each dog.  Tear it into chunks if necessary to add cheese to the full length of the dog.
4. Wrap the dogs like a burrito in the puff pastry.  Using a brush, wet the edge of the pastry where the two edges come together.  This will make them stick together.  Don’t make it too wet, though.  Wet the inside ends of the puff pastry where you will squeeze them together to seal the dog in.  Press the pastry together at the ends.  Use a fork to crimp the ends together.
5. Brush the tops and sides of the blankets with the beaten egg.  
6. Bake for 25 minutes, or until the tops become golden brown.  
7. Serve with mustard, or other, lesser condiments.