Sea Turtle Eggs (June 10, 2012)

Sea Turtle Eggs

Source: Nibble Me This

Serves: Makes one clutch of sea turtle eggs

Ingredients

• • 1 lb Jimmy Dean Sage Breakfast Sausage, cut into 10-11 slices (or any Breakfast sausage)

  • 1/2 cup cream cheese*

  • 1/2 cup shredded colby-jack cheese*

  • 2 jalapeno chile, de-seeded and finely diced

  • 1 1/2 tsp Draper's AP rub or your favorite BBQ rub (divided)

Instructions

• 1. Preheat a charcoal grill set up for indirect heat to 250f. Add a chunk or two of cherry, hickory or whatever smoking woods that you have on hand.

  2. Mix the cream cheese, cheese, jalapeno and 1/2 tsp of BBQ rub together.

  3. Place about 1 tsp of the cheese mixture on each slice of sausage. Pull up the edges of the sausage and seal, forming it into a round, golf ball sized "egg".

  4. Season your "eggs" with the remaining 1 tsp of BBQ rub.

  5. Smoke the "eggs" for about 90 minutes.

Notes

• • I used whipped cream cheese...new to me, that stuff is awesomely good.

  • Feel free to sub any other cheese.

I used Hy-Vee Mild breakfast sausage, my Texas style and I used chedder cheese (per Linda and Zac's request).

I coated with alittle more rub (so up the amount), I also found that after 75 min cooking at 225-250*F that they were almost over done (The recipe says 250*F for 90 min).

They were vry tasty though and will make again