sausage ball recipe

wish i had taken a picture of the meatballs i made on friday (i thawed out this stuff when i thawed out the chicken i have yet to find a recipe for...) these turned out really good, though. i made sausage balls by my own sort of made up recipe. i saw a rachael ray show about a month ago where she stuffed a chicken with a similar recipe, but i don't remember her exacts, just her premise... so, this is what i used: a pack of hot sausage (could use mild if you don't like spice) a pack of frozen turnip greens, thawed about 1/2 cup of pine nuts (toasted or not) about a cup of cheese, shredded about a squeeze of lemon juice now i say "about" because i never measure anything. the sausage was premeasured because it came in a pack. i used bass farms sausage, and i put it in a large bowl. and i like hot sausage. the turnip greens, well after they were thawed, i put them in a kitchen towel and squeezed out all the water. then i dumped it on top of the sausage. next, i put the pine nuts that i had previously toasted in the stove (and when i say previously, i mean like last year sometime. they had been in my pantry for a while, but, toasting would not be necessary here because they will cook in the ball) into the pan, as well as a fistfull of cheddar cheese already shredded by food lion (i had the brand name cheese). naturally, i didn't have a lemon, but i did have some "real lemon" in the fridge, so i just put a squirt in the bowl. i didn't measure, just a squirt. not a lot, maybe it was a tablespoon or something. anyway, then i mixed it all together with my hands. gross. i hate touching ground meat. gloves would have been nice here. then i made large-ish sized meatballs and put them on one of those types of pans that drain (roasting pan?) and put them in the oven on 350 for probably 30 minutes. i didn't time it, i just cooked them until they looked brown and not raw and smelled done. i let them cool somewhat and then i ate one. YUM. even my dad liked them. and don't be turned off by the turnip greens in them. rachael ray used spinach, my dad hates spinach, which gave me the idea for turnips. you can't taste the turnips at all. the lemon and the pinenuts give it a lebanese flavor, kind of like something that needs a little labneh to eat it with. as a matter of a fact, that would have been really good with it. yum. now, if only i knew how to make that!