Rainbow Hot Dog

 Hello!

Bad news to me: I left the job I had accepted just about two weeks ago. I was really starting to enjoy it! I'm not going to deny it, it was hard work! But I liked it so much! I was cooking, I was at my environment! Unfortunately I was betrayed once again by my body. My tendinitis and carpel tunnel syndrome won. After only five days of working there I felt it, my hands going numb, waking up at 5 am with extreme hand pain from the numbness and at that point I thought that maybe, only maybe, I would be able to continue the work. Three more days of work and a major accident didn't happen because... well, because I would not let it happen due to my stubbornness. I got a major burnt on my hand because I lost my strength on it, the cloth I was using to hold a big ass pan (with the hep of a co-worker - we're talking about 30 kgs) slid down the side and the pan's handle was getting support directly from my hand and my belly (thank the lord for my thick apron!). I held it like this until we reached a safe surface, otherwise me and my co-worker would have gotten a serious injury from boiling water and potatoes. That was the exact moment I made the decision of quitting. I can not let these accidents happen. I work with 40 cm sharp blades, giant pots of boiling content, industrial tipper pots... imagine if my hand goes numb while chopping an onion with a chef's knife... 

So, that's that. I am frustrated to a level I never thought it would be possible when it comes to professional matters. I am also frustrated because my hand hurts like crazy and I am not able to cook the way I want to, not even at home. Easy everyday tasks are a pain to execute, like brushing my hair or teeth, doing the dishes, doing laundry... please, excuse me if I'm not posting as regularly as I wanted to.

Now, this is the Rainbow Hot Dog - Each bite reveals even more amazing fruity flavours!

Thanks to Rhenn Rainbow I felt really inspired to cook rainbow food and so I am trying my best :D

The description says this is a fruity hotdog so I went for a dango hotdog. Dango is a Japanese sweet, very neutral when it comes to the base, we can pretty much flavour it however we want to. The base is a dough made of water and glutinous rice flour and then the world is our pickle :) I tried to colour and flavour it naturally but clearly it wasn't enough.

All in all this was not my best work but it does have a lot of potential if I use just food colouring and pieces of fruit wrapped inside the dango balls or even fruit extracts.

Now, onto the video.

Enjoy!

The food will be rated from 1 to 5 stars, meaning:

⭐ - This could be part of gross foods! Ugh :(

⭐⭐ - Waste of ingredients but edible...

⭐⭐⭐ - Ok. Not my favourite thing but also not that bad

⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Now this has a lot of neopotential :D

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Wow! Was this created by fairies?! Yummy!

Now remember that this is, obviously, my opinion only ;)

Rainbow Hot Dog - ⭐⭐⭐ - I decided to rate this hot dog with three stars because it was mainly a fail. I love dango, just for the records, but I didn't think it had the right texture for a hot dog. Dango is very very chewy and this, along with the bread, becomes extremely chewy and dense and we can actually choke on it. It was also a very major fail concerning the flavour. I tried to flavour it just by using fruit juices or purees and the required quantity just wasn't enough to give it any flavour. At this point you might be asking if it wouldn't be better to rate it a two stars. My answer is: not really because I really know I can do better by using pieces of fruit and fruit extracts. It might even make it less dense ;)

*This image was taken from and belongs to Neopets.