Wasn't exactly a forum for this kind of stuff I could find, but here we go...
These have been on my culinary bucket list for a while. After looking at the recipes, the cook times were all over the place. I didn't want to smoke these figuring the bacon and sausage would carry enough of that. I'm not an "all smoke all the time" guy.
The cheese filling recipes were not that far off of pimento cheese, so I just made a batch of my pimento cheese recipe...I mean who wouldn't want extra pimento cheese to eat?
Put some in a piping bag ready to go.
Used this Kielbasa. This is not a bad brand. Hails from Texas
Had the thick cut bacon in the freezer for a year, so it needed to be used up.
Silly me, never having made this, I just trimmed the shaggy bacon ends and cut a slice in half to start...Well, trimming didn't hurt the fact that even if I hadn't, I wouldn't have gotten two shots from each piece of bacon anyway...at least not with a tidy full wrap. So fortunately I figured this out on the first slice, and also realized I could go up to half inch slices of sausage instead of the 3/8" I started with.
So I got 10 out the package with some bacon scraps.
Cheese-mix piped in
Pickled jalapeno slice plugging the top
Meanwhile I oven roasted the bacon scraps. They were used the next day with grilled cheese and tomato soup.
Of course I kept the bacon fat!
They roasted nicely except a couple started to sort of collapse and leak cheese a bit. 375 for 35 minutes and the bacon was at a nice chew with no floppy fat.
Took some of my house BBQ sauce and added some honey and some cider vinegar to thin it back out a bit
Plated with that drizzled over the shots and served with some 5 bean salad.
Verdict:
Not bad but this will be the last time I make these. I've done it so its off my list now.
I think the bacon and sausage flavors compete too much. Like when I made my one and only fatty, I think its just a waste of great bacon IMO.
They were too big to not feel like a glutton shoving the whole thing in my mouth and taking two bites was kind of clumsy. My wife is not going to put something like this to her face so she ended up using a knife and fork. Like me, she thought they were OK, no problem getting down the gullet, but was it worth the effort? Not really...for me.
On to the next bucket list item!
These have been on my culinary bucket list for a while. After looking at the recipes, the cook times were all over the place. I didn't want to smoke these figuring the bacon and sausage would carry enough of that. I'm not an "all smoke all the time" guy.
The cheese filling recipes were not that far off of pimento cheese, so I just made a batch of my pimento cheese recipe...I mean who wouldn't want extra pimento cheese to eat?
Put some in a piping bag ready to go.
Used this Kielbasa. This is not a bad brand. Hails from Texas
Had the thick cut bacon in the freezer for a year, so it needed to be used up.
Silly me, never having made this, I just trimmed the shaggy bacon ends and cut a slice in half to start...Well, trimming didn't hurt the fact that even if I hadn't, I wouldn't have gotten two shots from each piece of bacon anyway...at least not with a tidy full wrap. So fortunately I figured this out on the first slice, and also realized I could go up to half inch slices of sausage instead of the 3/8" I started with.
So I got 10 out the package with some bacon scraps.
Cheese-mix piped in
Pickled jalapeno slice plugging the top
Meanwhile I oven roasted the bacon scraps. They were used the next day with grilled cheese and tomato soup.
Of course I kept the bacon fat!
They roasted nicely except a couple started to sort of collapse and leak cheese a bit. 375 for 35 minutes and the bacon was at a nice chew with no floppy fat.
Took some of my house BBQ sauce and added some honey and some cider vinegar to thin it back out a bit
Plated with that drizzled over the shots and served with some 5 bean salad.
Verdict:
Not bad but this will be the last time I make these. I've done it so its off my list now.
I think the bacon and sausage flavors compete too much. Like when I made my one and only fatty, I think its just a waste of great bacon IMO.
They were too big to not feel like a glutton shoving the whole thing in my mouth and taking two bites was kind of clumsy. My wife is not going to put something like this to her face so she ended up using a knife and fork. Like me, she thought they were OK, no problem getting down the gullet, but was it worth the effort? Not really...for me.
On to the next bucket list item!
