For Christmas, Santa got me the meat grinder attachment for my mixer. It hasn't left its box. Truth be told, I was really intimidated by the contraption. What if I don't choose the right meat to grind? What will I make? Don't I also need the sausage stuffer attachment if I want to make sausage??
Then I remembered: It's just food. If I mess it up, I can probably still eat it. And if it does all go to pot, no one has to know, right? Right.
In a previous post, I hinted that I buy lots of food. I'm what you might call a food hoarder. The only reason I'm not actually one, is that I eventually use the food. But it's true, I do buy a ridiculous amount of food. The redeeming part of this is that I always shop sales and specials. I almost never pay full price, especially for meat, dairy and eggs.
Then I remembered: It's just food. If I mess it up, I can probably still eat it. And if it does all go to pot, no one has to know, right? Right.
In a previous post, I hinted that I buy lots of food. I'm what you might call a food hoarder. The only reason I'm not actually one, is that I eventually use the food. But it's true, I do buy a ridiculous amount of food. The redeeming part of this is that I always shop sales and specials. I almost never pay full price, especially for meat, dairy and eggs.
Specials like this usually end up shaping my menu for the week. So when I found a 3lb beef bottom round roast for $2.50/lb I jumped on that really quickly!
It made its home in my fridge for a few days next to a pork blade roast that I had snagged for about $2/lb.
So the next logical step (since they became friends) was to make SAUSAGE!!
First, chop the meat into chunks. I had about 3 lb of each.
Season to taste. This got complicated... I may have divided my 6lb of ground meat into 4 different batches because I couldn't choose just one seasoning style.
So I had: breakfast sausage (nutmeg, salt, cinnamon, pepper), steak (Montreal steak seasoning), Mexican hot pepper (pepper purée I had made previously, a chopped up jalapeño, salt, red chile flakes, and cayenne pepper), and Italian (rosemary, basil, oregano, garlic)
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