Star Wars and Cooking

If you have a picky kid or just a super nerdy adult you’re trying to feed, here’s a great recipe to try.  It’s relatively easy too (which is totally my kind of cooking).  They’re called TIE Fighter Ties and for those of you who have the misfortune of not knowing very much about Star Wars, TIE Fighters are the aircraft that Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire (evil side) used in battle against the Rebel Alliance (good side).  This recipe comes from the cookbook, The Star Wars Cookbook: Wookie Cookies and Other Galactic Recipes by Robin Davis*.  Here’s how you make them:

TIE Fighter Ties

Ingredients:

4 pre-cooked sausages or hotdogs, approximately 5 inches long

1 package refrigerator bread sticks (8 breadsticks)

Ketchup and mustard

Directions:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Cut sausages in half crosswise. Set aside.
• Open the package of breadsticks and separate the lengths of dough.
• Cut the lengths in half and set aside. You should have 16 lengths of dough when you are finished.
• Place one sausage half, cut side down, on a baking sheet.
• Take 1 length of dough and wrap it around the base of the sausage half. Cross the ends and let them fall on the baking sheet in the form of the letter V.  Using another length of dough, wrap the same sausage in the opposite direction.  Cross the ends and let them fall in the form of an upside down V.  Repeat with the remaining dough and sausage halves.
• Bake according to the breadstick package directions, or until dough puffs up and turns golden brown.
• Using pot holders, remove from the oven. Serve with ketchup and mustard.

Makes 8 TIE Fighter Ties.

*Be sure to check out The Star Wars Cookbook: Wookie Cookies and Other Galactic Recipes by Robin Davis for other awesome Star Wars recipes.