Cream Cheese Sausage Balls

Last night our neighborhood had a Halloween Social at dinner time.  Each family was supposed to bring an appetizer.  Being the responsible mother I am, I decided not to feed my kids dinner and feed them there.  Well you can guess.....they had candy for dinner. And I....well I had these....

Cream Cheese Sausage Balls
1lb hot sausage, uncooked
8oz cream cheese, softened
1 1/4 cup Bisquick
4 oz of cheddar cheese shredded

Preheat oven to 400F

Mix all the ingredients until well combined. Roll into 1-inch balls.  Bake for 20-25 minutes. 

You can freeze these suckers uncooked.  If cooking frozen add a few minutes to your cooking time.
**I also doubled this to make a whole lot of sausage balls, if you need some for a crowd, I suggest you do the same.

I love, love, love sausage balls.  One of my favorite foods.  That being said, I highly suggest you use HOT sausage.  I use the Jimmy Dean tube.  I also have to confess, I didn't think the cream cheese made a big difference.  I mean it was in there, but the taste wasn't a whole lot different then the old ones I used to make.  So if you don't have cream cheese, just whip up the old recipe.  I give this 2 thumbs way up, hard to mess up a sausage ball!

Red Beans & Rice

This is really the cheating way to do it.  Seriously, but it's good and time is minimal around here when it comes to cooking.  So who cares right....I mean it's really good.  Just make sure that before you make this, that you get 3 cans of blue runner cream style red beans at the grocery.  Shhh! I won't tell anyone...you can totally pass it off as having cooked it all day.  I do.

Red Beans & Rice
1 lb sausage (I like conecuh thin sausage...it's the right size for small kiddos)
3 cans of Blue Runner creamy style read beans
1/2 cup water
bay leaves
onion powder
garlic powder
salt and pepper

Brown your sausage in a large pot.  Pour in the red beans and the water.  Mix it well.  Put in a few bay leaves and the sprinkle a dash or two of the other seasoning to make it feel like you are cooking.  Cook your rice.

I serve this with corn bread and occasionally a salad.  The kids....EAT IT UP!  I never ate this as a child...they are not my kids.

Even Margot dug right in.