Why did this make the list?
There are a number of goals on my list that are things that I really want to do but I just need a push to make the logistics happen. Making sausage was one of those things. It looked easy to do and fun and tasty but I need the push to make it happen. My friend Brad said early on that he wanted to make sausage from scratch. Having the accountability is really helpful and having someone to partner in the logistics is also amazing. I am an extrovert and sometimes doing all the things I want to do alone is the scariest part.
What did we do?
Brad and I borrowed the sausage making supplies from our friend/coworker Kate. We watched a Youtube video on how to hook up the materials to my Kitchenaid. I looked up some recipes online from some company called Dakotah Sausage Stuffer which really just sounds like a gay porn. We ground about five pounds of chicken thighs and then I stopped following the recipe and just threw in a ton of spices. The stuffing mechanism on the Kitchenaid wasn't working so Brad did a lot of stuffing by hand. In the end, we made four links in 3 hours and I have about 3/4 of the ground sausage in the fridge waiting to be cased.
What did I learn?
Making sausage isn't hard but it is time intensive especially the casing part. Being able to grind your own meat on the other hand is awesome and something I want to do more often.
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