What Does Comfort Food Mean To You???

Comfort food can mean such a wide variety of things - peanut butter and jam sandwiches, chicken noodle soup, mac and cheese...The possibilities are endless and they can vary just as much from culture to culture as person to person.  Even for me, sometimes it is homemade mac and cheese, sometimes it is chicken soup and sometimes it is those crescent roll things that my Mom used to put a hot dog weiner in and make us for lunch.

Earlier this week, as Mark and I were out doing a grocery shopping, we were trying to figure out what to make for dinner that night.  We were in the refrigerated section picking up juice and milk when I saw the crescent rolls and it started my mind turning.  Initially I thought, since we don't really eat hot dogs in our house, of taking sausage (which I knew we had in the freezer) and make crescent dogs.  Then I thought, what if I chop up the sausage before I cook it, to make it look like ground meat instead, and stuff that inside a crescent roll with cheese and some spices?  So...a new recipe was born.

The freezer revealed some Turkey Bratwurst sausages so that is what we used to make this recipe.  Any type of sausage would work though.

Spicy Sausage Crescent Roll Ups

6                          Sausages, uncooked & chopped

3 tbsp                  Red wine vinegar

3 tbsp                  Worcestershire sauce

2 tbsp                  Cajun seasoning

2 tbsp                  Greek seasoning

4 tbsp                  Parmesan cheese, grated

3 tbsp                  Hot BBQ Sauce

4-5 dashes           Hot Sauce (I used Tabasco)

2 containers        Crescent rolls

8 slices                Brie (or another creamy style cheese)

¼ cup                  Marble cheese, shredded

PINCH                Habanero Salt

Start by chopping up the sausages into small pieces for frying in a frying pan.

In a mixing bowl, combine the chopped up sausage with the vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, Cajun and Greek seasonings and Parmesan cheese.  Allow to marinate together for a couple of hours.

Drain any excess liquid that forms in the mixing bowl and add the meat mixture to a frying pan over medium high heat.

Cook the meat mixture until cooked through, draining off any excess liquid as necessary.  Add the hot BBQ sauce and the hot sauce to the mixture once cooked through and mix to coat while in the frying pan.

In the meantime, turn on the oven and start preheating it to 375°F.

Lay out your crescent rolls and add the two types of cheese and the habanero salt to the roll up.

Once the meat is fully cooked and seasoned to taste, divide the meat mixture evenly amongst the crescent rolls.  If there is leftover meat, use some as a garnish on the top of the roll up once they have been rolled.

Roll the crescent rolls up, tucking in the ends as you roll them up.

Set on a baking sheet that has been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. 

Pop it into the oven and allow to cook for 15-17 minutes.

Makes 8 rollups