Adventures in sausage.

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Sep 192010
 

Recently I’ve become keenly interested in all things sausages. More the point, I’ve been reading about salumi, charcuterie, and forcemeats, and fantasizing about making my own sausages, fermented or otherwise. Sausage making can be an expensive hobby, with grinders, stuffers, and smoke houses costing a small fortune. Fortunately my lovely in-laws provided me with the building blocks for my budding hobby in the form of the grinder and sausage stuffer attachments for my KitchenAid mixer. [...]

Wednesday night potluck

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Jan 072010
 

Last night our friend Kiki came over for a little Wednesday night potluck action. Kiki brought over a wonderful pesto, goat cheese, and arugula pizza that she made, while the wife and I whipped up sausage and eggplant ‘casserole’ from Mel at Bitchincamero and a biscuit bread pudding a la Homesick Texan. The sausage and eggplant casserole was more like a strata than a traditional casserole (whatever that means), and it gave me a chance [...]