Day 5

So I'm sitting in the bathtub after my fifth day at work, where upon arriving I've been told that my job next week is to come in with my own recipe for a sausage and we'll make 12 pounds to see if its good or how to tweak it.  Unbelievable!  Now I'm going through every cookbook I have relating to meat or sausage in the hopes I can be inspired to come up with an entirely original recipe.  That would be a first.  I'm the girl who has to follow a recipe for everything, hopefully that will soon change. 

 

Today was another entry into firsts.  I ran the meat grinder all morning, it's so huge it's unbelievable!  The meat pusher is the size of my lower leg.  See the terrible photo I took?  Must get better at that...

 

 

I ground about a hundred pounds of primal cuts of sirloin for extra lean ground beef and chuck for ground beef and then it was on to the sausage.  Breakfast sausage, which by the way is delicious, pepperoni, and last but definitely not least was the highly loved, but annoying bangers.  They contain breadcrumbs which become like cement in the mixer making it a bitch to clean that baby when I'm done.  They're absolutely delicious, though.

Now...on to decide what sausage to make.  Stay tuned!