Smoked Sausage & Cheese Tray — The Bigfoot Way

Sometimes the best food doesn’t need a fancy name, a mile-long ingredient list, or six hours of prep. Sometimes you just need smoked sausage, seasoned cheese, pickles, pepperoncinis, saltines, and a little smoke.

This Smoked Sausage & Cheese Tray is about as simple as it gets—but with a little Bigfoot treatment, it turns into the kind of snack tray people hover around until every last piece is gone.

Perfect for game day, the hunting camp, backyard cookouts, tailgates, or just standing around the smoker with a cold drink, this one is ridiculously easy to throw together.

What You'll Need

Smoked sausage
The Legend Seasoning from Bigfoot BBQ Rubs
Block cheese — cheddar, Colby Jack, pepper jack, or your favorite
The HOT Legend Seasoning
Baby dill pickles
Pepperoncinis
Saltine crackers
Bigfoot BBQ Sauce
Toothpicks for serving

Step 1: Season the Sausage

Slice your smoked sausage into bite-sized pieces and give it a good coating of The Legend.

The Legend brings that sweet, savory, smoky-ready flavor that turns a simple piece of sausage into something you’ll keep grabbing every time you walk past the tray.

Don't be shy with it. We're not here to make diet food.

Step 2: Smoke the Sausage

Get your smoker running around 300°F.

Place the seasoned sausage on a smoker-safe tray or rack and let it cook until it’s hot, slightly caramelized around the edges, and has picked up plenty of that wood-fired flavor.

Once it looks too good to leave alone, pull it off the smoker and let it rest while you finish the tray.

Step 3: Hit the Cheese With The HOT Legend

While the sausage is smoking, cut your cheese into thick slices or bite-sized chunks.

Then give it a good dusting of The HOT Legend.

No smoking. No melting. Just cheese and seasoning.

The cool, creamy cheese paired with that little kick from The HOT Legend makes it the perfect sidekick to the hot smoked sausage.

Step 4: Build the Bigfoot Tray

Now pile everything onto a big serving tray:

Smoked sausage. HOT Legend cheese. Baby dill pickles. Pepperoncinis. Saltines.

That's it.

No fancy garnish. No edible flowers. No tiny sprigs of parsley strategically placed with tweezers.

Just good food.

Don't Forget the Bigfoot BBQ Sauce

Technically, you could stop there.

But why would you?

Pour some Bigfoot BBQ Sauce into a bowl and park it right in the middle of the tray.

Grab a piece of that hot, smoky Legend-seasoned sausage and dunk it straight into the BBQ Sauce.

That's where things get serious.

The smoky sausage, sweet and tangy BBQ Sauce, spicy seasoned cheese, crunchy saltines, sour baby dills, and pepperoncinis give you a little bit of everything in every trip around the tray.

Sweet. Smoky. Savory. Tangy. Spicy. Crunchy.

Perfect for Feeding a Crowd

This is the kind of food we love around here. It's easy, doesn't require a culinary degree, and disappears faster than you can make it.

Making it for a few people? Grab a package of sausage and a block of cheese.

Feeding the whole crew?

Smoke more sausage. Buy more cheese. Grab another sleeve of saltines.

Then throw it all on the table, dump out some toothpicks, and get out of the way.

Because nobody eats "just one."

Bigfoot Smoked Sausage & Cheese Tray

Smoked Sausage: The Legend
Cheese: The HOT Legend
On the Side: Baby dill pickles, pepperoncinis & saltines
For Dipping: Bigfoot BBQ Sauce
Smoker: Approximately 300°F

Simple ingredients. Big smoke. Legendary flavor.

RUB IT. SMOKE IT. BELIEVE IT.