For Christmas I got the meat grinder and sausage stuffing attachments for my Kitchen Aid mixer (I love that mixer). Before you go and say that is a horrible gift, I actually asked for them due to the sausage making class I took earlier in the year at Sur la Table . Also making sausage is not that hard if you have mechanical help. I would not be making sausage if I had to use a hand grinder, because that would be too much like work. Meat grinder attachment grinding up the pork So today I made my first batch of sausage. I made one pound of sage breakfast sausage. The recipe called for pork butt (I used pork stew meat), fat back (I got rid of that since the stew meat had plenty of fat), sage, parsley, black pepper, thyme and salt. I also added some garlic and some cayenne pepper it to give it some kick. I cut the meat up into 1 -2 inch cubes mixed the meat and the spices together then ran it through the grinder twice, the first time through the cour...
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