Sausage Hors D'oeuvres

Well, let's move on though, because I want to share this little simple recipe with y'all

I'm willing to bet money on the fact that this was probably the first hors d'oeuvre I ever made for a party

probably when I was 19. It's been around 100 years. Some of you may have had it, and some of you may have not

So if you haven't had this or don't know about this little recipe

I want to share it with you because it's great at a cocktail party. It's wonderful for breakfast

When we get through with them, it's going to taste like a sausage biscuit. And we're going to take a biscuit mix, three cups of a biscuit mix of your choice

We're going to take a pound of ground sausage. And this is one of those things that you have to do with your hands

There's just no way around it because you need the heat from your hands to break down that sausage

So I going to just go in like this and make sure that biscuit mix gets all mixed in I just going to incorporate those together and then I going to come in here with four cups

of shredded cheese. Now this is a white cheddar. You can use yellow or if you really wanted to

spice them up, you could use a peppery Monterey Jack or something with some bite to it

We have really had the cheese in this show, hadn't we? But like I said, now you're really going to have to get in there and just work this and work it

This is not something that you're going to mix up in two or three minutes. All right, I've got all of our ingredients mixed up together real well, and there's not

but three ingredients, a biscuit mix, a fresh ground sausage and cheese, that's all it is

to it. And we just going to pinch them off and roll them about the size of a small walnut All right we going to put these in the oven It preheated to 375 degrees

We're going to keep an eye on these and we're going to cook them for probably about 18 minutes

But for your own oven at home, you'll want to kind of check them like after 10 or 12 minutes

because I really don't know how your oven cooks at home. I just know how mine cooks

So 18 minutes should do it. And in they go. Got to wash my hands

All right, I've got a pan back here that I got ready, and they've cooled off a little bit

Now, I'm going to show you how I like to eat my sausage balls

Like if I'm having a sausage biscuit, I love mustard on it and I love mayonnaise

So all I do is mix a little mustard with some mayonnaise But those that watch my show you know I a mayonnaise freak

I love me some mayonnaise. And I'm just gonna put that sauce right here in my container

And then I'm gonna just pile up my sausage balls around it

Well, except for one, Gertie has patiently waited. Gertie's been with me the whole time I've been making these sausage balls

So, let's see, that's the biggest piece, Gertie. Way to go. And Harry gets the little piece

And now Mama gets to taste it. After all these years, these simple little things are so good