Brielle's Avalon

Wrapped Sausages…more than just corndogs! Mom used to make these for a quick summer dinner, often when Dad was out of town.

So, mix up a batch of biscuits. What!? No time? What am I going to do with you!? *sigh* OK, break out that tube of biscuits you keep in the back of the fridge. Fortunately 8 biscuits fits the 8 dogs in the hot dog package.

Grease a cookie sheet, divide the biscuit dough (or pull apart the tube biscuits) and stretch/smoosh them, add a slice of cheese and…

Wrap the hot dogs or sausage to fit like a blanket.

Or, if you have shredded cheese you can put the cheese on a blanket,

fold it to encase the cheese

Then wrap the sausage like a candy cane.

If you have a whole package of hot dogs it comes out even with a whole tube/canister of biscuits. If, like I did this time, you only used 1/2 the package (I used the other 1/2 in another recipe the other night) you can bake the other 4 biscuits and save them for breakfast as biscuits and gravy.

If you want you can roll them in olive oil for a nicer crust. they go really well with tater puffs or French fries

Bake at 350 til the blankets are golden brown.

Put a dab of the condiments of your choice on the edge of the plate or in a pinch pot (What? You don’t have a bunch of little tiny bowls laying around?) for proper dipping. Mustard and catsup are traditional but BB!, ranch, mayonnaise, sweet and sour sauce are common in my house.

Serve with chips, French fries, potato puffy-things, various salads, beans and the cold beverage of your choice, usually a nice cola, orange soda or root beer are among the traditional favourites.

If you’re starting to introduce your kids to cooking and working around the kitchen, this is a fun start. It’s something that even the youngest can do when they’re old enough to work the oven. Cooking for the family makes anyone feel accomplished, like they’re really helping. Because they are! If Mom or Dad is getting home too late to make dinner the kids can have this waiting. The really cool thing about this is that while hot dog buns go stale or get mouldy (I often buy the sausages thinking I’ll remember to pick ut buns on the way home the night I plan to do hot dogs), the biscuits are oven-baked fresh when you make these. Super win!

If you have a batch of bread ready you can use that for this, too, instead of making a full loaf, then make breadsticks from the rest. You can use other quick breads like scones and soda bread too, just use your imagination. If you really feel ambitious try making a thick batch of cornbread and wrapping/dipping them in that or even pancake batter, but cornbread and pancake batter seem to do better when deep fried. I’m too paranoid and lazy for that. If you’re really pressed for time or desperate for starchy wrapping stuff I guess you could pull out the tortillas you always keep in the fridge, or the wonton wrappers or phyllo dough or puff pastry or…just have fun with it however you choose to do it!