Sassy Little Smokies Food

LITTLE BACON SMOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cut bacon in thirds and wrap 1 piece around each little smokie. Skewer the little smokies and place skewers over a deep casserole dish so that bacon grease will drip down.
• Sprinkle with brown sugar.
• Cook 15 minutes, flip, and then cook an additional 15 minutes.
• Remove little smokies from oven and broil until bacon has reached desired crispness.

SASSY LITTLE SMOKIES

Steps:

• Brown little smokies in a large saute pan.
• Combine bbq sauce and marmalade in a bowl. Pour over sausages.
• Saute about 5 minutes until heated through.
• Can transfer mixture to crock pot if want to keep warm for extended period of time.
• **Variation: combine all ingredients in crock pot and wait til sausages plump up (should take about 3 hours on low).

PUFFED LITTLE SMOKIES WITH SWEET MUSTARD SAUCE

Steps:

• To make dipping sauce, whisk all sauce ingredients together in a small mixing bowl.
• Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees.
• Unroll dough and cut into little triangles. Roll each smokie in a triangle and place on a cookie sheet.
• Brush with butter.
• Bake at 375 degrees until golden, about 10 minutes.
• Serve warm with sweet mustard dipping sauce.

LITTLE SMOKIES IN CHERRY PRESERVES

Steps:

• Bring little smokies and the preserves to a low boil and then simmer for about 5-10 minutes or until the jelly thickens a little. Stir occasionally to keep from burning or sticking.
• We put them in a serving dish if they are going to be eaten fairly quickly. If to be left out for guests to graze on for awhile, then we puy them in a fondue pot (or sometimes we set out an electric skillet on low) to keep warm.
• Easily doubled or tripled for large crowds.
• Note - two 18 ounce jars of preserves and 3 packages of smokies do well for a large batch.