Hot Dog Soup

     It's Depression cooking.  Experts say it's not good for you.  It's unreasonably tasty, far more than the components suggest: Hot dog soup.

     You take whatever kind of canned vegetable soup you've got handy, and whatever kind of hot dogs.  Slice up two hot dogs per can (or three if you're using condensed soup), bring it barely to a boil, back the heat off and let it simmer.

     It's better with fancy soup and good hot hogs -- I had a can of Amy's Chunky Vegetable (low fat, it says right on the label) and Nathan's hot dogs.  I also had a half-dozen fresh mushrooms, which I diced and cooked in a little olive oil with truffle powder before adding the soup and slicing in the dogs.

     But it's good even with generic vegetable soup and store-brand hot dogs.  Especially on a bitterly cold winter evening.  It'll keep you going.