National Pig in the Blanket Day

My kids love when I find obscure holidays to celebrate with them.  Such as National Grilled Cheese Day, or Pancake Day.  This happened to be National Pig in the Blanket Day, and you know I had to do something about it.

Pigs in the Blanket, for those of us not in the know, are sausages wrapped in dough, and baked.  

I happen to think that small food is cute, therefore more appetizing, so I decided to go with cheesy Lit'l Smokies as our sausage.  Cheap refrigerator biscuit dough was our blankets.

Now, if you want to bust out some homemade biscuit dough, be my guest.  I went for the easy option, since I was going for a quick weeknight meal.  You can choose any sausage or hotdog you like.  I love Lit'l Smokies because they are already cooked.  If you pick an uncooked product, for safety you should pre-cook them and let them cool before wrapping.

What I did is preheat the oven to 375. Then pop the biscuits out, cut each in half, and wrap each half around the smokie.  Place them on an ungreased cookie sheet, about half an inch to an inch apart.

They don't have to be pretty.  This is easy food.  The moisture from the smokies, helps seal the dough to them.  Just be sure to pinch the dough a bit to make sure they are sealed.  After you have as many rolled as you want, pop them into the oven for 15-20 minutes.  You want them to brown nicely, and the sausages to heat up.

While they are cooking, you can get together dipping sauces.  We like BBQ sauce, mustard, ketchup, or ranch dressing.  Tonight we had honey mustard salad dressing, and Awesomesauce.  Awesomesauce is my son's name for a sauce I created with half ketchup and half Mae Ploy sweet chili sauce.  It's sweet, mildly spicy, and perfect if you don't have BBQ sauce on hand.

We used a honey mustard salad dressing as a dipper, along with a 50/50 blend of sweet chili sauce and ketchup.

We really love having fun with food.  I try to serve the kids healthy foods the majority of the time. However, I also feel that as long as you do things in moderation, it's okay to splurge on higher calorie choices every once in awhile. 

These cuties would be perfect for a party, I bet you could even pre-roll and freeze ahead.  I will have to try that!  You could fancy them up, or just leave them the way they are.  I think they are pretty perfect as is. 

Let me know if you try this!

The piggies in blankets, brown and yummy!

This is my 16 year old daughter Autumn, she loved the piggies!

I served the piggies with potato salad and corn.  We like to eat off of cafeteria style plates sometimes.  It adds to the fun factor of mealtime.