Sausage Roll

A favorite recipe of mine is the famous sausage roll.  My family has been making this for years!  It's easy and always receives many compliments.  We usually make this around holidays, especially when we are up north over fourth of July weekend.  I have friends at my cottage and so many of them love this sausage roll, we have to make three of them!  Once this comes out of the oven, people run to the kitchen because they have learned the hard way...you snooze, you lose!

The recipe only requires three ingredients:

• Ground Sausage - I always use Bob Evans (16oz.)
• Brick of cream cheese (8oz.) - I wouldn't use the reduce fat, it changes the taste a little.
• Crescent Roll tube - I use the Pillsbury Seamless Dough Sheets.

Cooking Steps:

1. To start, cook and brown the sausage in skillet on stove top.
2. After sausage is cooked, add in cream cheese into skillet. Mix cream cheese and sausage together.
3. Roll out crescent dough sheet on greased cookie sheet or baking dish.  Placed cooked sausage/cream cheese in middle of rolled out dough sheet.  I place it in the middle in a line.
4. Wrap sides and ends of dough up and around sausage mixture.  It should cover all of sausage mixture and look like a log/roll.
5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and place sausage roll in oven for about 15 minutes, or until crescent is golden brown

Let cool for about five minutes, slice and serve.  I usually slice 1.5 inches apart. 

Tip: You can always make the sausage/cream cheese mixture ahead of time and keep in refrigerator.  This makes the prep/cooking even faster in the morning.