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Entertaining Made Easy: Johnsonville Sausage Cheese Log Recipe

December 31, 2014 by Momstart Leave a Comment

We may be at the end of entertaining for a while but I still have to share this recipe. This recipe is so easy to make and you can personalize it and make it your own with no trouble at all. I used only four ingredients and the main was was pre-cooked. I used Johnsonville Classic Italian Meatballs.

Sausage Cheese Log Recipe

Ingredients:

10 defrosted Johnsonville® Classic Italian, Three-Cheese Italian or Homestyle Meatballs (or more if you prefer it to be meatier)

1 8 ounce package of cream cheese (softened)

1/4 of a red bell pepper chopped up

4 sheets of phyllo dough

Cooking spray

Directions:

Heat the oven to 425 and spray a cookie sheet with cooking spray

Chop up the meatballs into smaller pieces and put in a large bowl

Place the cream cheese and red peppers in the bowl and stir until well mixed

Spray the top of a sheet of phyllo dough and then place another sheet on top of it and spray that one. Repeat two more times

Then add half of the cream cheese mixture two inches from the edge along the edge

Fold over both ends of the log and then roll tightly

Cook for 18 to 20 minutes until golden brown on top let cool and serve

You don’t have to be an accomplished chef to host a memorable gathering. With these quick and easy entertaining recipes, you’ll enjoy time with friends and family without spending endless hours in the kitchen.

Keep your party simple by serving appetizers that encourage your guests to mix and mingle.

Sausage Balls: Give your guests a delicious surprise by using Italian sausage in your favorite meatball recipe. The flavors are already locked in the sausage, saving you time.

· Summer Sausage Smore’s: Impress your guests and keep them coming back for more with these summer sausage smore’s.

· Party Meatballs: Get the party started with these delicious meatballs. Both savory and sweet, these are sure to be a holiday hit.

We received samples.

Johnsonville Fully Cooked Turkey Sausage Fried Potato Cakes Recipe & Morning Time Saving Tip #Johnsonville #MorningHacks

August 22, 2014 by Momstart 5 Comments

This is a partnered post with compensation and product from the brand we are working with. All opinions are our own.

Johnsonville has released a new product that is ready in 30 seconds. Johnsonville’s NEW Fully Cooked Breakfast Sausage Links. Available nationwide in September, the new fully cooked links are to take the mayhem out of mornings and give families an easy way to have a hot, high protein breakfast to keep them full all morning and they sent us some samples to create a recipe with. You’ll find the recipe at the bottom of the page.

Ready to eat in 30 seconds, Johnsonville Fully Cooked Breakfast Sausage is available in three varieties: Original Recipe, Vermont Maple Syrup and Turkey (70% less fat). To launch the new product, Johnsonville is teaming up with Elisa All, parenting expert and founder of 30 Second Mom and hosting a Pinterest sweepstakes where you can win a month of free groceries and other prize packs from Johnsonville. The idea of the game is to visit the Johnsonville Pinterest page starting Monday 8/25 and allow users 30 seconds to pin as many time saving hacks as they can to their own Pinterest boards. After 30 seconds, the page will automatically advance and prompt the users to enter their contact information for the chance to win prizes!

Johnsonville asked me to create a hack to save time for back to school and pin it to their pin board. My kids and I save time by putting outfits together as we are folding the laundry. This helps my son because he easily gets distracted by his toys in the morning. This way his outfits is all picked out. He puts it on and then still has time to play and doesn’t get in trouble with mom.

Johnsonville Hack photo: Create Outfits as you are doing laundry to save time on busy mornings trying to get the kids out the door. #Johnsonville #MorningHacks

Johnsonville Fully Cooked Turkey Sausage Fried Potato Cakes Recipe

Ingredients:

1 package Johnsonville Fully Cooked Turkey Sausage
3 -4 large potatoes, peeled and diced
4 teaspoons butter
1/4 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 cup flour
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil

Directions:

1 Boil potatoes in water to cover for 10 minutes.
2 Drain and mash with butter and sour cream.
3 Add the the rest of the ingredients except flour ingredients.
4 Make patties and dust with the flour.
5 Fry in oil until crusty and brown on both sides.

"Healthier" Sausage Stuffed Shells Recipe

February 9, 2014 by Momstart 1 Comment

So I was going through my e-mail and found this recipe my friend sent me four years ago. I was thinking oh that looks so good I have to post it and try it. I’m sharing it with all of you because it’s still in my plans to eat healthier and when I post recipes on my blog they are easier for me to find and I hope for you guys to find too.

"Healthier" Sausage Stuffed Shells Recipe

Ingredients: 24	jumbo pasta shells (from 12-oz box)
1	lb lean Italian turkey sausage, casings removed
1	container (15 oz) light ricotta cheese
2	cups shredded reduced-fat Italian cheese blend (8 oz)
1	box (9 oz) Green Giant® frozen spinach, thawed, squeezed to drain
1/2	teaspoon dried basil leaves
3/4	cup finely shredded carrots (1 medium)
1	jar (25.5 oz) Muir Glen® organic Italian herb pasta sauce Directions:
1.	Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 13×9-inch (3-quart) glass baking dish with cooking spray. Cook and drain pasta as directed on package, omitting salt.
2.	In 10-inch nonstick skillet, crumble sausage. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until no longer pink; drain.
3.	In medium bowl, stir ricotta cheese, 1 cup of the Italian cheese blend, the spinach and basil until well mixed. Stir in carrots and sausage.
4.	Spread about 1/2 cup of the pasta sauce over bottom of baking dish. Spoon about 3 tablespoonfuls sausage mixture into each pasta shell. Arrange shells, filled sides up, on sauce in baking dish. Pour remaining pasta sauce over stuffed shells. Spray 15-inch piece of foil with cooking spray; cover shells with foil.
5.	Bake 40 minutes. Uncover; sprinkle with remaining 1 cup Italian cheese blend. Bake uncovered 5 to 10 minutes longer or until cheese is melted.
High Altitude (3500-6500 ft): Heat oven to 375°F.

Wake Up To Johnsonville Apple Sausage Pancakes Recipe

April 20, 2012 by Momstart 51 Comments

What do you wake up to? I love pancakes and waffles and it’s a special treat in my house when we have them. In fact we often go overboard with our special treat.

We make extra special pancakes from time to time. Can you tell by the photo? Those are my delicious Apple Sausage Pancakes. YUM! I’ve even sharing my recipe with you below. Would you like to win prizes for sharing your breakfast? Share with us what you wake up to……

To participate in the contest, visit the Johnsonville Kitchens Facebook page and upload a photo and description of your morning masterpiece, created with Johnsonville Sausage. The grand prize winner will receive 11-piece-set of Professional Cookware from ScanPan® and a year’s supply of Johnsonville Sausage! Additionally, you can share one of Johnsonville’s delicious breakfast dishes with a friend (or all of them), and you will be entered into the weekly sweepstakes drawing. Each week during the contest, one randomly drawn winner will receive a five-piece set of Professional Cookware from ScanPan®. Visit the Johnsonville Kitchens Facebook page or Johnsonville.com for full contest details.

Apple Sausage Pancakes Recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1 package Johnsonville maple brown sugar sausage links
1 can of apple pie filling

Directions:

Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a large bowl.

In another bowl, beat the egg, milk, oil, and vanilla. Add to dry ingredients and mix well.

Next, pour the batter by 1/4 cupfuls onto a lightly greased hot griddle (stir the batter before pouring each batch). Turn when bubbles form on top of pancakes.

Cook until the second side is brown.

Brown the sausage either in the microwave or on the stove top in a pan for 5 minutes (follow directions on the package)

Let sausage cool and chop into pieces

Heat the apple pie filling in a sauce pan on top of the oven until it’s warm then add the sausage.

Top the pancakes with the apple sausage mixture.

I’m a Johnsonville Kitchens Community Blogger and this enters me into a contest for sponsorship to blogher food.

Sausage Pops Italian Meatballs on a Stick Recipe

October 7, 2011 by Momstart 35 Comments

I spent last week traveling and one of the places I visited was Johnsonville Kitchens where we went over a bunch of really fun holiday recipes. Since you guys said you wanted more recipes I’m more than happy to share them with you. Putting the meatballs on a stick like this just seemed so festive to me. Fore more great recipes ideas like this one, visit Johnsonville Kitchens. Oh and just a reminder, these are the meatballs that will “change your life”.

Sausage Pops – Italian Meatballs on a Stick Recipe:

Ingredients:

1 package Italian Sausage
I egg
1/3 cup crackers
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
1/4 cup milk

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Decase the sausage
Combine the egg, crackers, cheese, milk, and sasuage in a bowl
Shape the mixture into meatballs (recommended 20 equal balls)
Arrange meatballs in a shallow baking pan
Bake for 20 minutes

My trip and expenses were provided by Johnsonville

Puff Pastry Sausage Turnovers Recipe

September 14, 2011 by Momstart 57 Comments

I’ve worked with Johnsonville Sausage a few times and on one of my trips there they gave me the cookbook Johnsonville Big Taste of Sausage Cookbook. This cookbook has more than 125 recipes for on and off the grill from Johnsonville Sausage. It’s been a few months and I finally tried one of the recipes and it was a huge success.

Decase the sausage and then brown it.

Roll out the puff pastry

Roll it out into 12 1/2 inch squares

Mix sausage, eggs, ricotta, and cheese in a bowl

Fill the pastry square with mixture

Fold over the edges

Cook in the oven for 15-20 minutes

Puff Pastry Sausage Turnovers Recipe

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Puff Pastry Sausage Turnovers Recipe

Recipe type: Main course, appetiser

Prep time: 1 hour

Cook time: 15 mins

Total time: 1 hour 15 mins

Ingredients

16 ounce package Johnsonville Mild Cooked Italian Sausage
1½ cups shredded cheddar cheese
1 cup ricotta cheese
1 large egg
1 17.25 ounce package frozen puff pastry thawed

Instructions

If you purchased raw sausage then be sure to brown it
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees
Combine the sausage, cheddar cheese, ricotta cheese, and egg in a large bowl
On parchment paper, roll out each sheet of the puff pastry into about 12½ inch square
Cut each into 25 equal shapes ( think it would be better if you made each one a bit bigger so maybe do 15 equal squares)
Place 1 well rounded spoonfull of filling on each square
Fold the squares to form triangles and crimp the edges with a fork
Place the turnovers on a lightly greased baking sheet
Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown

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Sausage & Cheese Sandwich Recipe

August 10, 2011 by Momstart 17 Comments

I was in the mood for sausage sandwiches for lunch. We had leftover sausage patties from dinner the other night and I received some Whole Wheat Arnold Sandwich Thin Mini’s so I combined them with some cheddar cheese. Nom Nom Nom!

Depending on where you live, Arnold has a few different names. Here in the Pacific Northwest Arnold is known as Oroweat. Based on the line of Sandwich Thins, the minis only have 50 calories each and are Whole Wheat. Whole wheat provides antioxidants, dietary fiber, B vitamins, vitamin E, iron, magnesium, phosphorous and potassium. It’s associated with reduced body fat and belly fat, plus a lower risk of heart disease and diabetes.

Other Health Benefits:

0g trans fat
19g whole grains per serving
Cholesterol free
Excellent source of fiber
No high fructose corn syrup

Now for the Sausage & Cheese Sandwiches Recipe

Ingredients:

Sausage Patties Cooked
Cheddar Cheese
Sandwich Thins Mini’s

Directions:

Toast the Sandwich Thins in the toaster
Heat up the Sausage Patties in the microwave, melting the cheese on top
Place on the Sandwich Thin mini’s and eat!

How to Make Johnsonville Sausage Rainbow Kabobs with Coos Coos

March 5, 2011 by Momstart 5 Comments

This recipe is really easy and can be changed to any preference. All you need to do is pick out the veggie you like and what type of meat you want. We chose Johnsonville Sausage, in particular the Bedder Cheddar Smoked Sausage and cheese , then we chose some new veggies and fruit and an old favorite. Let the kids pick out some of the fruit and veggies so they feel involved.

How to make Kabobs without skewers

To keep the flavors from mixing (if you have a picky person like me) I got out two glass dishes to cook in.

Ingredients:

Red Peppers
Eggplant
Tomatoes
Pineapple
Apples
Bedder Cheddar Smoked Sausage and cheese

1) Preheat oven to 400 degrees
2) Cut up veggies and place in glass dish
3) Spray veggies with nonstick butter spray (or douse with some olive oil)
4) Cook for 10 minutes
5) Now cut up fruit and cut up the sausage
6) When timer goes off add the fruit and sausage in it’s own glass dish or in the same dish as the veggies
7) Flip the veggies
8) Cook for 10 more minutes

Prepare Coos coos according to directions on the box.

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Maple Sausage Corn Bread Pudding Recipe

February 19, 2011 by Momstart 22 Comments

I’ve been trying to widen our meal plan using ingredients that we know and love. I’ve just been tired of making the same things over and over again. So, I checked out Jimmy Dean’s Website for recipes and found the Maple Sausage Corn Bread Pudding Recipe. My husband was a little bit leery because the recipe called for onions, so I told him to trust me it would be delicious. It came out wonderful, of course with my own modifications.

Here is my version of Maple Sausage Corn Bread Pudding Recipe

Ingredients:

1 pkg of Jiffy Corn Bread Mix (or 8.5 ounces of your choice corn bread mix)
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 pkg Jimmy Dean Maple Flavor Pork Sausage Roll (8 ounces) cooked crumbled and drained
1 1/2 cups frozen corn cooked
4 eggs
2 cups half-and-half or whipping cream
1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Prepare muffin batter according to package directions, pour into lightly greased 8-inch square baking pan. Bake 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely.

2. Cut cornbread into 1-inch cubes; place in 13×19 inch baking pan. Bake 5-10 minutes or until golden brown. Transfer lightly greased 2-quart casserole.

3. Melt the butter and pour over the bread cubes, then top with corn and sausage

4. Beat eggs, half-and-half, salt in small bowl with wire whisk until well blended; pour over ingredients in casserole. Gently press bread cubes into egg mixture until completely covered. Cover with foil.

5. Bake 30 minutes then uncover and cook 10 more (make sure the knife comes out clean) Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

I varied the ingredients and directions to the original recipe quite a bit, to see the differences check out this Maple Sausage Corn Bread Pudding Recipe.

Johnsonville Sausage Cabbage Skillet Recipe

December 16, 2010 by Momstart 1 Comment

Johnsonville Sausage makes quite a variety of sausage. My favorite is the Turkey Sausage because it is lower in calories, but I’m quite excited to try the Polish Sausage in this recipe that Johnsonville shared with me.

Sausage Cabbage Skillet

2 packages (24 ounces each) prepared mashed potatoes

1 package (16 ounces) Johnsonville® smoked Polish sausage, halved

1 large onion, chopped

2 tablespoons butter

1 medium head cabbage, cored and cut into wedges

¼ teaspoon pepper

Heat potatoes according to package directions; keep warm. In a large skillet, sauté sausage and onion in butter until onion is tender. Add cabbage and pepper. Cover skillet; cook over medium heat for 10-12 minutes or until cabbage is tender. Serve with potatoes.

6 servings.

Total Time: 30 min.

Cost per serving $1.79

I received some samples in exchange for this post.