sausage

[Tom]

I've noticed that my ever loving breakfast sausages have gotte milder and milder.  I don't know who is responsible, but those from the Grocery have been getting less saltier, less black peppery and less hot for many years. Even the spices that I've always attributed to Sausage have diminished.

In the past, there was only one kind of sausage.   It was called "Sausage" and you knew what you were getting when you ordered it. Then, one day, some wise guy from somewhere else, I presume, decided that we needed to be educated and started writing Sausage on Hotdog packages and other things packed in sausage skins.   Once, when you ordered Sausage, you were asked, mild or hot?  A prudent diner might ask, "how hot," but he knew that he was getting sausage.

Making comments along these lines to a friend of Gaels I was treated to a breakfast of sausage that she got from a little meat store she knows about, the other day.  It was the same, minimally spiced stuff of which I'd been complaining.  She said, "I'll show you.  I know of a store in Starke that sells sausage.

About a half hour ago, she brought me a breakfast of scrambled eggs, jellied, buttered toast and two, four inch pieces of sausage.  I knew it was going to be hot because it was even red.  I took a bite and found it to be surprisingly good, even if my sinus' began to open.  

"How's that", she asked?

"This is good," I said as my nose began to run.  "It's not too hot, and has a good flavor".  Sweat was beginning to break out on my forehead.  "I think they could have smoked it a bit more".  My eyes were watering.

"That's good", she said.  I'll tell them you liked it and bring you some more.

I really do like it, but I do think it could use some more sage and am now a little worried about my time in the library in the morning.  :-\


My tongue has quit working.

[Mooseherder]

Just try to be quiet in the Library because you don't want to get shushed by the Librarian. :D
Tom,  Have you ever tried the Tennessee Pride brand breakfast sausage?
It's pretty near good.

[Tom]

no, but I will.  

We have some mighty fine sausage makers around here, but they are backyard manufacturers and hard to find.

[LeeB]

Sounds like a pretty good deal Tom. How many times you recon you can get her to bring you breakfast if you keep saying it ain't quite right?  :D

I got up early this morning and made 25 lbs of beef sausage. Got through and had it all packaged up just in time to head to the airport for A training course for work in Houston. >:( I guess I'll smoke some of it when I get home. I'll be home for 2 days before I gotta go back to the sand box. I did frie up some patties. it was pretty good. I used the same recipe as before, just didn't have time to try Marcel's recipe.

[Tom]

Lee,
This lady is of the age to be my daughter and I think she enjoys seeing me smile as much as I enjoy being pampered.  I was always told that I missed a lot by not having daughters.  I'm beginning to believe it.  :D

[LeeB]

I got three daughters Tom. Believe me when I say it ain't always a joy, exspecfially when they all get in the same room. :D

[Tom]

Yeah, Charlie just told me the same thing.  :D

[isawlogs]

Tom , that sausage of mine then would do you no good , as it is mild , but it aint hard to put a bite in her  ;)   A little more red peppers and some hot sauce in the mix will liven her up some . 

[submarinesailor]

I got three daughters Tom. Believe me when I say it ain't always a joy, exspecfially when they all get in the same room. :D

Ditto, and double DITTO.  I have 3 also.  Twins and the other that was the try for a boy.

[Burlkraft]

 Border Sausage  :   >:(

Is it called Border Sausage because when you get to the border they take it away from you?  :D

[Jeff]

 :D   I was wondering the same thing.

Marcel, is this the same sausage you managed to smuggle across the one time? That stuff was awesome.  8)

[isawlogs]

  Yes steve , it needed a name  :-\   :D  May as well give it one that I can relate too... >:(

  An improved versun of that Jeff....  I make it gluten free, all ingredients are checked for that purpose, soya sauce is one that needs be looked at closely, few brands are made gluten free,  my daughter is intolarent to gluten and must avoid it.
Actualy Jeff, these are even better  digin1

[WDH]

Sausage is very appropriate for a Pig Roast .

[Burlkraft]

Sausage is very appropriate for a Pig Roast .

Name me an event where sausage is not appropriate for  ;D ;D

[WDH]

Excellent point  :D.

[isawlogs]

Sheesh , you'd thing that an unused shelf in da fridge would not be a big deal if it went missing  :

[WH_Conley]

I have 4, I say FOUR daughters.

Tom, can you get a brand name on that sausage, or, is it a specialty shop.

Marcel, our new fridge had glass shelves, I think that was the reason. Not many left in the old one.

[Tom]

The sausage comes from a small butcher shop, somewhere around Starke, Florida.  There are a lot of little shops like that around that service locals.  Most of ours have closed up.  The best one burned down and the new regulations to rebuild caused him to retire.  Now we get stuff from other towns when someone happens to visit.   These little butcher shops are hard to find if you don't know of them. 

Being small doesn't make them good.  There is a lot of experimenting that goes on before you decide to be a customer.   Even then, some of the butchers reserve the right to have you as a customer too.  :D  If you aren't accepted, you don't get the good stuff.