 a huge family favorite here on Colored Valley Cooks where we cook like Mama did. We're going to make homemade sausage balls and not with this quick with real self-rising flour and butter. So let's get started. Okay in the cookbook it's going to tell you to use the Slothouse salad herb blend and it does give you an option if you can't find this to use fresh green onion and parsley where you can use them all. Anything to make them taste delicious right? So I am going to slice this green onion down the middle. You always want to take out the outer layer of it and cut the end off here where the roots are and the tops off as well. And then we're just going to dice this onion and I think one green onion might do it. It's just according to how much you want in there for your family. Because you really just need a couple of tablespoons. So I think one green onion is going to work well. Now we're going to use our parsley. Smells good. The taste of sage and your sausage and you can't find Jimmy Dean's sage sausage which is what I like. You can also throw some sage in there as well. We have a pound of a regular sausage and we have a pound of hot sausage. We are going to use three-quarter stick of this butter. Now I tell you in the recipe book that you can freeze your butter and grate it but I'm actually going to cut it in today with my blending fork because it is easy to do. So you can cut it into your flour or you can grate it. Either way works. We're going to use two cups of self-rising flour and what we're doing right now is creating our own biscuit and it's a lot more natural and delicious than using biscuit. I do not like biscuit actually so we're actually making like our own biscuit mix here. So there's two cups of self-rising flour three-quarter stick of butter at room temperature and we're going to use this blending fork to blend the butter in. Look how great that works. This blending fork is amazing. You can find these on my website as well under utensils and they're less than $10 I think right around $10 and it'll be the best $10 you've ever spent. You can buy it through Amazon. Everything that is in my kitchen you can find available through my website and go through Amazon. It helps support our show. You can see this blending fork does a great job of getting that butter into that flour. It's evenly distributed in the flour. That's it y'all. Looks good. Now what we're going to do is we're going to add two eggs. Now I bought jumbo eggs because they were on sale but just make sure you use at least a large egg. We're going to go ahead and throw it in our green onion and parsley. I'm going to start using my hands and I'm going to mix in my sausage and my cheese. This is the easiest way to do it. Today we're going to use our new cassori oven. Cassori has been very good to us and let us demonstrate their products. They come out with a new oven and it has a lot of features and I've already used it for quite a few things. We've rotisserie the chicken in it and of course we've used it to make cookies and things like that. So today we're going to use it for our sausage balls. I'm going to show you the controls. It's really easy to use. It does have a preheat setting so we're going to go ahead and put this oven on preheat so that when we get our sausage balls mixed up we can bake them. Our recipe says to bake the sausage balls at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. This recipe calls for a pound of sausage. I like to use half hot half mild so I buy a pound of each and combine them. You can do whatever your family likes if you don't want to use hot at all or if you want to use all hot. Now the great thing about using two different ones is then you have them on hand for breakfast if you have people over because you only used a half of pound of each so you got a half a pound left. So this is where I'm going to start mixing by hand. I like to mix this up first and then start adding my cheese. So we're going to mix this first and the best and easiest way to do this is with your hands and just make sure your hands are washed and your counter's good and clean because we're actually going to knead the cheese into these on my counter but I like to do it this way because it gets good and mixed up and you don't have to worry about some of the sausage balls being breaded and some of them you know just being all sausage. Alright once you get it mixed up pretty good like we have it now you're going to put your cheese on the counter and then you're going to start kneading your cheese into the sausage balls. Alright I like Chris pour out this cheese for me so I wouldn't have to wash my hands because I'm just going to get them. I would have just gotten them dirty all over again. That's what's great about doing this. Look our oven is preheated. It's going to tell you when it's preheated so it's going to be ready when we are and it's not going to turn off until we put our food in there. Now we're going to use about 10 ounces of shredded cheese. I like to use the bigger shreds of cheese because these are sausage balls and you want to see the cheese in them so make sure you get the bigger shreds or you can buy a block of cheese and shred it yourself whatever you want to do. Chris did get the cheese out for me and put it on the counter so that I wouldn't have to go wash and then turn around and wash again. It's good to have a helper when you do these so it's a family thing. Now we're going to put our sausage out here on the counter and start putting our cheese in it. It's hard to get it mixed up evenly using a spoon. I don't like for sausage balls to be too big. Some people make them too big. You want to make sure that you make them small enough that the sausage is going to get done in 25 minutes. I don't like to make them bigger than a walnut and I mean a smaller walnut. Don't make them really big. Pinch off your sausage balls and get them on. I like to use parchment paper. It does really well. It makes them crunchy on the bottom because the oils and stuff help fry the bottom of the sausage when you use parchment paper. We're going to get these in this beautiful oven. This oven also has a fan mode and I'm going to show you that when I put these in. We'll go ahead and turn it on for this batch. Why not? We're going to slide this in, that middle rack. We're going to close the door and we're going to hit the start button and now it's going to bake it for 25 minutes and it's already starting counting down. There is a button here in the middle that is a fan so if you want it to cook more like a convection oven you can turn the fan on. So we'll see you in a minute. Put this in my refrigerator. I'm just going to get out some plastic wrap. Now you can put it in a gallon size bag or a storage bag or whatever it is you want to put your sausage in and if you got a scraper of course it helps clean up that mess off the table. Look how nice the table looks. I haven't even wiped it off yet. I'm just going to wrap this up and get it in my refrigerator. So take a look at that. Don't that look good? You can see the herbs in there and the cheese and it's just going to be really delicious. Now the clock has gone off and the temperature is 350 but the oven actually turns off when your timer turns off so remember that we're going to open these up. Those look good. This cassori oven did a good job didn't it? I'm going to enjoy this. We're definitely taking this to our new house with us when we move. A lot of y'all are asking when we're moving. We're not moving until the summer but you'll see us on and off periodically down there at our new home. I'm going to put these on a little serving tray so we can take a pretty picture of them. Amy came in and saw that we were making them and said she was going to have them for lunch today. Alright look at the bottom of them when you use parchment. They do a real good job of getting crunchy on the bottom and I like using parchment for that reason. You can see that they sizzle on there and actually kind of fry on there and of course it's easy to clean up then as well. So we're going to half one of these in half and give it a try. That's how it looks. Really yummy and delicious. Make some of these with your family this season. So this oven does tell you it comes with a manual. It has information on the actual door that tells you where to place your food for which setting you're going to use. It has a broil, a toast, bagel, pizza, air fry, cookies, dehydrator, then it also bakes, roasts, warms, and ferments. Okay now the pan that comes with this oven is deep and it's to catch the drippings when you rotisserie a chicken etc. So if you actually use this pan to bake with. Let me show you what I'm talking about. It comes with a rack and this is the baking level. It tells you that but if you used this pan you couldn't just put it in at the baking level because it's a lot lower. You'd actually insert it on this level which is what we're going to do when we make our sausage balls. Now you could also use your own pan. It's really large. The oven's surface area comes back in the back a little bit and round so that you can make a pizza in there really easy. It comes this with this basket for air frying and you can tell you got a lot more surface area for air frying than you do in a normal air fryer. So we're excited to do chicken wings in this and we're going to do them really soon or another thing that would be really good as pork ribs I think. And of course it has these two attachments. This one goes into your chicken and this one helps you get this out of the oven when your chicken is done but it has a rotisserie function as well. So I just wanted to show you guys these functions. First we're going to turn the oven on. It's really easy. Alright we're going to keep ours on the bake setting. The function button is here. We're going to press this for the time in the minutes. We're going to press it once and it's at 350 degrees. We're going to leave it there. We're going to press it twice to change the minutes. Ours will bake for 25 minutes and then we will hit the start button and it goes into the preheat setting. Now it's not going to start baking until you put your food in there and hit the start again. So it's going to keep it preheated at the right temperature until the food is placed in the oven. There's a minute left on this wonderful oven. This is a different recipe but I just want to show you something else about this oven at the end of this video and that is about a minute before the timer goes off. The light comes on and that way you can check on your food before you get it out. That's really cool. Kasori. I just love you. I just love Kasori stuff for the holidays. Thanks for watching Colored Valley Cooks where we cook like mama did.