My Uncle Bill would hate this recipe. Uncle Bill hates mushrooms... the texture, the taste, all of it. My Uncle Bill is about the last person you would expect to have a nemesis, but mushrooms are truly his. When we were kids and we would get pizza with him, he always got sausage and onion instead of our family's usual sausage and mushroom. I thought he and my aunt were exotic.
I figured out later that they were not exotic, they were crazy. Mushrooms are the best.
One of Lee's first dinners for me included stuffed mushrooms and that pretty much sealed the deal for me. This recipe is a little different from the original, but no less delicious. It's a little lighter than the traditional all sausage or my favorite cream cheese and crab.
When mixed together, the crab and sausage are a powerhouse of tastiness.
This is a great make ahead dish, Lee was making sausage for breakfast and saved a portion of that cooked sausage for this recipe. He also mixed everything and stuffed my mushrooms early in the afternoon and refrigerated them until I was ready for dinner.
