Seasonings for pork sausage?!!!!!!

[Brian T]

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Well, the Spring Roll project was a success. Instead of a deep frying marathon, I did two dozen and quit. Still ate at 9:30PM or so. Equally good with home-made plum sauce or Hoi-Sin.
I can be sane and mature and get the rest done to eat at a civilized time tonight!
I go straight to the bison rancher. Wait until the mud freezes in the yard. He does them up as quarters on the hook. I can see his tree line from my kitchen window. Then I load them into the Burb and it's nearly an hour to Valemount to the butcher. Bought 2 sides this time, peddled half of it. Last time. Not going to be a meat broker any more.
I've had Ostrich and Emu, OK but pass the bison, would you please?

[BobD (Archive)]

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I'd love to get bison, but...in central Pennsylvania, we don't have many <GRIN>. I try to eat local rather than have things shipped in.

I just wish I could find Emu locally. I've had that once. It's tender as can be, but tastes like the best possible steak...

Bob

[Brian T]

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I'm waiting for the "goop" to cool so I can make the rolls. Must be enough for 100 or more.
Not my plan but I'll deal with it. Looks good, tastes OK. I suspect that the sauces really provide the "treat." 7PM now, may not eat before 10PM. Jeezlies, I should have started at noon!
35F and lumpy rain all day, dang near snow. Freezing level can't be more than 2,000' and ruler straight.
Bison = local rancher knocks down 2 yr olds, I have bought at least one side a year for the past 10. $2.50/lb on the hook, lose 35-40% to bone, $0.55 cut wrapped labelled and frozen. That works out to about $3.50/lb or less in my freezer. Juicy, cut-it-with-a-fork-tender and nearly fat-free (like game).

[Sharon of the Dell]

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Tonight's "experimental dinner" will be my first crack at Chinese Spring Rolls (pork). I have Black Bean sauce, 2 yr-old home-made plum sauce and probably make a Sweet & Sour sauce. The recipe reads that I can freeze them and deep fry straight from that. The convenience of having the meat & veggies all in one package. Bison trumps cow meat every day.

Yum on those spring rolls! My daughter makes some awesome ones.
I've only had Bison once or twice and I'd have to agree with you.
Elk is some darn good meat too.
Enjoy your dinner, I'm cooking up clam chowder for this stormy evening.

[Brian T]

Re: Seasonings for pork sausage?!!!!!!

Tonight's "experimental dinner" will be my first crack at Chinese Spring Rolls (pork). I have Black Bean sauce, 2 yr-old home-made plum sauce and probably make a Sweet & Sour sauce. The recipe reads that I can freeze them and deep fry straight from that. The convenience of having the meat & veggies all in one package. Bison trumps cow meat every day.

[Sharon of the Dell]

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Don, I'm writing that down. Sounds really good!
I put dried fruit and pecans in my turkey dressing, so I know this would be delicious!

[Sharon of the Dell]

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Eddy, that sounds good too! My guys go turkey hunting also, so I'd give it a shot, pun intended!

[Donsexton]

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Try this per one pound of ground pork ½ cup of dried and chopped cherries ½ cup of toasted and chopped pecans ½ cup of sweet basil ½ cup chopped shallots 1 table spoon of finely ground black pepper ½ table spoon finely ground nutmeg and 1 table spoon kosher salt. Mix all the ingredients together let stand overnight in the fridge then force them into a small natural casing 4” links. Fill your smoker with apple wood chips and cold smoke for no more than 30 minutes.

[Eddy-Smiles]

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Sorry Sharon, I know that they call that the other "white meat" but it's still "red" to me and I haven't eaten "red" meat in over 40-years! But I've got a great recipe for turkey kielbasa kapusta that I can give ya!

[idigjars]

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Hi Sharon! Thank you for posting your recipe. Can't wait to try making my own sausage. Take care. Paul

[Sharon of the Dell]

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This has absolutely nothing to do with sausage, or how to make it.

But my paternal grandfather, the same one that made the sausage, etc., dearly loved to eat roast possums/opossums. He would catch them in his rabbit traps, put them in an old wooden barrel and feed them corn, etc. for a couple weeks. Called it "cleaning them out." Then he would kill them, dress them, and my grandmother would roast them for him in the oven. Think like a beef roast with potatoes, carrots, onions, etc. arranged in and/or around it. They'd always want to invite some of the family up to eat when they did that. Of course, there was always something else to eat. But I remember one time, and the point here is "one" time, he talked me into trying some of that. As folks are fond of saying when they're texting.......OMG.......that was the greasiest lump of anything I'd ever had in my mouth before that or since. The more I chewed it, the bigger it got. Like the raven said..... Never Again,Never Again!!

hahahahahaha! You made me spit my coffee all over the monitor!!!!

[sbarnhardt]

Re: Seasonings for pork sausage?!!!!!!

This has absolutely nothing to do with sausage, or how to make it.

But my paternal grandfather, the same one that made the sausage, etc., dearly loved to eat roast possums/opossums. He would catch them in his rabbit traps, put them in an old wooden barrel and feed them corn, etc. for a couple weeks. Called it "cleaning them out." Then he would kill them, dress them, and my grandmother would roast them for him in the oven. Think like a beef roast with potatoes, carrots, onions, etc. arranged in and/or around it. They'd always want to invite some of the family up to eat when they did that. Of course, there was always something else to eat. But I remember one time, and the point here is "one" time, he talked me into trying some of that. As folks are fond of saying when they're texting.......OMG.......that was the greasiest lump of anything I'd ever had in my mouth before that or since. The more I chewed it, the bigger it got. Like the raven said..... Never Again,Never Again!!

[Sharon of the Dell]

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Bob, I saw a show on PBS a while back that said grass fed beef and the milk from cows raised that way is about the same as eating cold water fish, it will actually lower bad cholesterol.
I got sick the two times I tried bear. Maybe that's why!

[BobD (Archive)]

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I agree. This pork is so much better than the stuff you buy in stores. The beef as well. The guy we get the pigs and cows from is a friend of the family. The steer is grass-fed black angus, and he is also careful about what he feeds the hogs. The county landfill is near my parent's house, and after seeing the bears eating from the landfill, we decided that we really didn't want to go bear hunting...

Bob

[Sharon of the Dell]

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Hi Bob, both my folks were raised on farms.
Until I was around 8, we raised sheep and had a steer we raised. My dad went hunting every year and fished a lot, so we always ate good healthy meat. Plus we always had a big veggie garden and canned and froze the bounty from it.
We have raised pigs with my son's ex in-laws at their place. I hate keeping animals in a small confined pen, which is what they/we did. Another friend brought over old donuts (yuck)and scraps from restaurants to feed them. That was some of the nastiest tasting meat I have ever had!
So I was happy for the wild pork.At least they got to have a good life and good food before they died!
Plus pigs are smarter than dogs. They will respond to a name like a dog does. They get excited to see their people like any pet will. I was glad to have the wild pork, because I get too attached! Pigs aren't filthy animals if given enough room to roam, they just like to wallow in the mud to stay cool and to protect their skin. If they are in a small pen, they wallow in that and get really stinky, hence the term, smells like a hog pen!