Homemade Sausage baked in the oven with roasted potatoes or just make patties out of it with peppers and mushrooms grill, baked or fried.
Meatballs
Sausage and Pepper Upstate New York Style
This recipe uses 25 to 26 pounds of pork shoulder, which creates about 24 pounds of sausage, have the market grind this for you, or if you prefer you can use ground turkey in place of the pork shoulder. This recipe can cut in half also.
Hog Casings (Prepared As Instructed Below)
2/3 Cup of Salt
1/2 Cup Sweet Paprika
1/2 Cup Black Pepper
1/4 Cup Fennel Seed
1/2 Cup White Wine ( I use Chablis)
1/2 Cup Red Pepper Flakes this will make a medium-hot sausage
Flavor suggestions:
Make herb-flavored by adding minced garlic, parsley, oregano, and basil, usually a 1/4 cup of each to taste.
Prepare the hog casings the day before by soaking in water with a little orange juice and salt. Before using, rinse well and cut into pieces 18"- 2' long. Keep the casings in warm water to keep them soft and flexible. You will need a funnel tube and stuff by hand or buy an attachment for your industrial mixer sausage attachment.)
Mix all the ingredients together, usually, we mix by hand, until well combined with seasonings. Put casing on the funnel or machine and stuff. We usually freeze most of the links and you can use this to make many other Italian recipes)
