Stuffed Mushrooms and Sausage and Quinoa Stuffed peppers.

These stuffed mushrooms are a traditional accompaniment to our Christmas Eve meal but they make a great appetizer. 

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• 1 lbs sage sausage
• 1 package cream cheese (8oz)
• 1 bunch green onions
• 1-2 lbs button mushrooms

First, wash the mushrooms and remove the stems. Keep the whole mushroom to the side and mince the stems and the green onion. Cook up the sausage in a pan and add in the cream cheese and minced onion and mushroom stem and stir as the cream cheese melts everything together. Stuff the mushroom caps with the filling and bake at 350 for 15-20 minute. 

Alternative: 

Sausage and quinoa stuffed peppers

Get fewer mushrooms and dice them all up for the filling. Cook some quinoa and add it to the filling just after the cream cheese melts. Then either slice some peppers in half and remove the seeds or cut the top off and remove the seeds and ribs from the inside. Pre-bake the peppers at 350 for about 5-7 minutes and then stuff them with the filling and bake another 10 minutes