1st sausage

Well, have been searching internet since Christmas for sausage recipes, think I have found some good ones, time to start trying, gonna start out with just an easy breakfast sausage to make sure grinder is gonna work out, cash & carry had pork butts on sale for 99 cents a Lb. so stocked up. got out a 8 Lb'er and went to work, diced it up so it would fit through grinder
















didn't know how recipe was gonna turn out so just gonna make 5 Lbs in case it doesn't taste right, 1st 3 Lbs just frozen as ground pork, always use 1/2 ground pork & 1/2 beef when making lasagna or meatballs, so this will come in handy too, then on to grind the other 5 Lbs.
















Mixed spices together, then worked it into meat.
















let it sit in fridge about 4 hrs to let the flavors all distribute, took a small piece and fried it up for the taste test, this stuff has great flavor, better than any I have bought in grocery store and only 99 cents a Lb, plus a couple cents in spices.

Well, when I see pork sausage anymore, all I can think of is a Fatty, let's do it.

flattened a Lb out and searched the fridge, not much to be had, a couple green onions, some cheese, and some pickled wax peppers, Lynn didn't want any peppers, so only on half.
















rolled it up and put my rub on it

















in the smoker for a couple hours, looked good coming out
















sliced it up

















Man this thing was good, I might even say it's the best I've ever made, I hadn't ate all day so that might have had something to do with it, I was starved, but the taste was incredible, all I could keep saying was "I kicked Jimmy Deans ass" as I ate it

next projects will be pepperoni, polish, and summer sausage in no particular order.