Sausage Update

We had some of the sausage Cindy made yesterday this morning as breakfast sausage, and it was delicious.

I was amazed that the whole sausage making process went so smoothly, especially after the earlier Mozzarella fiasco; since it had taken us almost an entire day to make a 30-minute Mozzarella recipe, I was anticipating at least half a day to make a 20-minute sausage recipe.

It probably actually took Cindy most of a half day to cut up the pork and prepare the various mixtures or herbs and spices and to soak the casings, but the process of getting the meat into the casings was fairly quick.  Having the Kitchen Aid sausage maker attachment helped a lot; it would have been a lot messier process if we had had to stuff the casings by hand.

Years ago somebody described a participant in a litigation case I was working on as a "sausage maker".  When I asked what that meant, I was told, "He turns out a good product, but you don't want to look in the kitchen and see how he did it."  Oh.  Got the picture.

But ours turned out to be a good product, our kitchen didn't get messy and we used our own herbs and tomatoes in the process.