Instead, it's the birthday gifts I opened before we headed out to dinner, all loaded with foodie goodness. First, the LB® got me the food grinder attachment for the KitchenAid stand mixer I scored for Christmas... and then doubled down with the sausage stuffer kit! Yeah, I saw the guy on No Reservations who stuffed sausage perfectly by hand, but I'm not too proud to use any labor-saving tools I can.
I've been talking big about making my own sausage; now I'll be forced to make good. Maybe I'll start with the couple sausage recipes in Primal Cuts, which I picked up for cheap at our late, lamented Borders' liquidation sale.But wait, there's more! Not only did I get the meat grinding tools (let's be serious here: KitchenAid may call it a food grinder, but I'm'a be grinding meat), I also got a cool rack for making grilled stuffed jalapenos from my sister, and from my loving daughter, I got a no-fry corn dog maker from ThinkGeek. Yeah, I know Alton Brown would say it's a rotten unitasker... but... but... food on a stick, dude; what's not to love?
I'm imagining making sausage links with locally grown meat and homegrown herbs and hot peppers, and then turning them into homemade corn dogs with batter also incorporating homegrown herbs. Cool, eh?Oh, yeah, one more thing: To put the very cherry on my birthday Sunda
Cool stuff, Bill! I once was known to make sausage . . . well, help at least . . . from venison. Sadly, Food on a Stick never occurred to me. Not interested in it now -- too many most excellent sausage makers ready to hand here in Central Texas. All I really care about anymore is baking, anyway. I'm a sucker for every Bundt pan I run across; it's an addiction. Do you have any idea how hard those things are to store? They're falling out of all the kitchen cabinets, and I'm seriously considering annexing a shelf in the shed. Oh, and a popover pan. I seriously want one, and never mind the fact that no one in my family will eat them.
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