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Summer Time Cookouts

This post brought to you by Bar-S Foods. All opinions are 100% mine.

We are loving this summer so far, especially our barbecues and picnics. With three dudes to feed, they are always a fun way to go when it’s time to get the clan together, include some other family and friends, and nosh. The outdoors and sun make eating together better, and the smell of foods cooking outdoors is delicious.

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Bar-S wants to join the party so they sent over some hot dog cookers and s’mores forks to help us get our fun started, as well as a book “The Pocket Guide To Camping”. Bar-S has what you need for those fun outdoor summer occasions, like hot dogs, sausages and links, corn dogs, sliced deli meats and bacon- all those meats that our carnivorous men can’t get enough of. Bar-S delivers more than 120 meat products with quality, value, and flavor, and their hot dogs are the #1-selling hot dog in America, so of course we wanted to try those! I picked them up in both regular and jumbo and cooked them up:

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(love those grill marks, grilled hot dogs are the tastiest!)

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My favorite hot dogs are a unique recipe I made up years back when I was experimenting with toppings (because people come up with some crazy hot dog toppings, and for some reason they are always delicious, even the odd ones). My favorites hot dogs are topped with ketchup, black pepper, cilantro and green peppers. I know, I know…but it actually tastes really good!

And since it was a cookout, of course we made some s’mores to go with our Bar-S hot dogs!

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  • There is nothing better than a hot dog on the grill in the summer! yes!

  • There is nothing better than cooking over an open fire…or at least, that is one of the biggest things that my son loves about summer 🙂

  • I don’t know what it is about those grill marks, but they really do make everything more appetizing. Your dogs look great!

  • I need that hot dog holder for the grill. My family loves hot dogs. I have never tried hot dogs the way you make them, but that does sound really good.

  • I love hotdogs on the grill or open fire! YUM!

  • It’s only two months to camping season. I’ll be grilling hot dogs and marshmallows.

  • I love that tool to cook hotdogs and who doesn’t love a great s’mores. I hate that summer is ending soon 🙁

  • We really enjoy hot dogs made on the grill. Somehow the smell of them on the grill just signifies summer.

  • Hot dogs on the grill are my absolute fave, especially if they’re all beef.

  • I totally agree that grilled hot dogs are the best. That holder is so cool!

  • There’s not a better combination than hot dogs and s’mores. They are perfect for a cookout. I need to have one for my family before summer escapes us.

  • We try to have a summer cook out over an open fire at least once over the summer. I think the children would love to have them more but so many factors come into play when having a live fire on the ground – weather, heat index, wind, which we get a lot of with the open fields.

    That is one snazzy hot dog holder!

  • I agree, grilled hot dogs do taste the best and no cookout is complete without scrumptious s’mores.

  • Wow what a fun cook out. I need to get me one of those frank grillers. Looks amazing!

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