Turtle Eggs

Parallel

Pretty standard cook; cream cheese and cheddar with a couple of diced fresh jalapenos stuffed into breakfast sausage balls then smoked with Tabasco barrel chips at 250° indirect. The only thing is I took them off too early initially (after about an hour) so I put them back on for about 30 minutes to insure they're cooked through.

caliking

I almost ate my screen. Those look farkin delicious!

hapster

They look perfect!

Buckdodger

Man those look good...gotta try that soon.

Griffin

Lookin' good. No major leaks, at least that show in your pic.

Charlesmaneri

looks dynamite I need to try this one 

JohnInCarolina

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!  Nice work.  

Haven't heard of Tabasco barrel chips.  What are those?

Little Steven

Tobasco buys use barrels from Jack Daniels. Jack uses them twice. Tobasco uses them for ten batches. Then they chip them. So essentially they are oak saturated with Jack and then Tobasco. They are glorious!

Brisket_Fanatic

Those look awesome and @Little Steven I have got to find some of those chips.

GATraveller

Hoochie Mama!!  That looks incredible.  Thanks.

HDumptyEsq

Good looking balls............if you'll pardon the expression!

Parallel

Thanks y'all. I just noticed I took out a policy on these when I put them back on the BGE... INSURE? ... my students would never let me live that down. :-@

SmokeyPitt

Parallel said:

Thanks y'all. I just noticed I took out a policy on these when I put them back on the BGE... INSURE? ... my students would never let me live that down. :-@

I here you!  Been their done that.  

...but those balls do look exceptional.  

Fred19Flintstone

My balls leak. No, my name is not Pete Schvetty.

Eggcelsior

Fred19Flintstone said:

My balls leak. No, my name is not Pete Schvetty.

Almost, Fred, almost

Cymbaline65

Griffin said:

Lookin' good. No major leaks, at least that show in your pic.

Unlike the last balls I did. They rook fabulus

Loosemoose

I did turtle eggs and they sucked big time! I'm going to try it without the sage sausage next time and hope they are better.
Those look good though.

Griffin

Loosemoose said:

I did turtle eggs and they sucked big time! I'm going to try it without the sage sausage next time and hope they are better. Those look good though.

Try 'em again and use either plain breakfast sausage or spicy if you like it hot. I can't imagine the sage sausage would be very good.

Thatgrimguy

I love them with sage sausage personally

pantsypants

This post has ruined my day .
I can honestly say i have never thought about balls so much in one day !!!

I need to make these

Cymbaline65

+1 on Sage Sausage. It's my preferred way.

NibbleMeThis

We like the sage sausage for these too but like Griff said, it's a matter of preference.  Use whatever breakfast sausage you like.

Cookinbob

I had not looked at this post because I thought it was about cooking eggs from turtles. Duh. Looks awesome. Gotta try

Zmokin

So exactly how do you make these?

Cube up some cheese. 
add some diced pepper
wrap raw ground sausage around it to make a "meatball"
Cook until done

If that's it, I gotta try it.


Wow, I just had a brain fart.  How about a ham sausage stuffed meatball.
Instead of breakfast sausage, I could cure my own ham, then run it through a meat grinder for making ground raw ham meat.  Then hot smoke at 300F

Phatchris

Gotta try some, look pretty awesome

Dillonjm

Damn, those look great! I have never tried them before but will definitely be giving them a try on the Egg..

pgprescott

Quite nice dude.

Roadpuke0

I would be courious if or what kind of flavor you achieved with those type of wood chips. Was it a peppery smoke or did it really just turn to be a oak flavor or both? It sounds really good though.

Parallel

It dose have a bit of a different flavor than simple oak chips, but I'm nt sure it's a spicy flavor. The one thing I can say definitively is that the smoke will choke you out in a heartbeat when you add the chips, so I'm convinced that some of that flavor is transfered.

Parallel

Zmokin said:

So exactly how do you make these?

Cube up some cheese. 
add some diced pepper
wrap raw ground sausage around it to make a "meatball"
Cook until done

If that's it, I gotta try it.

That is pretty much it except I shred the cheese vs cube it to help it mix in with the creamcheese and pepper better. I've done turtle eggs before that didn't come out right (leaked) so this time I used twice the amount of sausage (meaning two of the marks on the package per egg) and it seems to work well. They are a bit more than a small appetizer though when you do it that way, but I'd rather they be god than small.

scottn83

what about trying less cheese filling and still using one mark on per egg.  I am a new egg owner so this is just a thought I havent even tried to fix these but I will be doing it soon