Sausage Making

We finally tried sausage making with Joe's venison meat this afternoon, then into evening. It was lots of work, besides we weren't quite sure what we were doing. Sasage spice mix boxes tell you to follow the instruction of your meat grinder. And the meat grinder gives you many different attachments without detailed instructions. All in all, sampling a little taste of the sausages at the end was worth the hours of work in the kitchen.
Here's Joe grinding his meat, a mixture of 60% venison and 40% pork.Our first batch was sweet Italian sausage. The first time handling the casing was no easy task. Dinner time. There was no room on our kitchen table, so we set up our dinner plates in the living room. We had cooked venison roast all day in the crockpot for taco dinner, with rice and beans, tomato salsa, cheese and lettuce. Joe whipped up much deserved margarita, too. It was a very nice break.

After dinner, we got right back to work. Breakfast sausages this time. They turned a lot more like sausages!!