PIZZA avec les cœurn-dogues

Okay, Frangy foodies. For this very special post on Karen’s blog, I’m going all out—haute cuisine americaine (that’s “hottie American cousin” for those of you who don’t speak frog). This recipe was conceived in 2001 to commemorate the inauguration of the “asterisk” president, with ingredients of quality equal to his substance and a level of difficulty worthy of his intelligence.

Ingredients:
One large frozen pizza avec fromage
One box (six pieces) frozen cœurn dogues
Yellow (NOT Dijon) mustard

Preheat oven to 375°F for fifteen minutes.

Place frozen pizza on a pizza pan or cookie sheet.

Arrange cœurn dogues on pizza in the pattern of an asterisk. If your cœurn dogues come individually wrapped, be sure to remove the wrappers—this is very important!

Bake for 16-20 minutes or until the cœurn dogues are heated through and the cheese is nice and bubbly and starting to brown. Remove from oven, slice into wedges (each with a cœurn dogue) and serve with a squirt bottle of yellow mustard. Yes, that's right, the one you have in your fridge “just in case.”

If desired, you may opt to remove the sticks from the cœurn dogues before baking. I think that this is a good idea, as your guests from MENSA will be less likely to attempt holding the cœurn dogue by its stick with the wedge of pizza still attached. This is a very unstable arrangement.

If you are wondering about the discrepancy between the number of cœurn dogues in the pic vs. that in the recipe, we in our test kitchens made the mistake of allowing the president-honoree himself to count out the arms of the asterisk!