Sausage Balls, a guest food post

That’s right, folks, I, Tim, am doing a food post. We’ve been eating sausage balls for years, but today, we venture into the post Bisquick world… today we create them from scratch…

Faux Bisquick

• 2 cups flour
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 1½ teaspoons baking powder
• 1 big pinch of kosher salt
• 1 big pinch of sugar

The Other Stuff

• 10 oz of cheese
• 1 pound of sausage

How you do it…

• Preheat the oven to 375°
• Whisk the faux Bisquick to combine
• Grate the cheese (fresh grated, please) and drop it into the faux Bisquick

• Use your hands to coat the cheese with the powder

• Add the sausage (this part is, well, a little gross)
• Use your hands to mix it all up thoroughly. Push, mush, squish, do whatever it takes.
• If it’s totally dry, you may want to add up to 4 cap-fulls of canola oil (compensates for the shortening missing when using homemade Bisquick)

• Roll up little balls, less than an inch each and lay them out on…

• A wire rack in a sheet pan, ideally with some foil in between to spare the dish boy some effort.
• Bake for 20 minutes (or so, use your eyes) and then broil for a couple of minutes as well.