{"id":279,"date":"2010-12-08T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/91a6caae-42f1-440e-9c96-f5234ceac30a"},"modified":"2010-12-08T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T18:25:00","slug":"sausage-making-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Sausage Making for Dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the ways we have always wanted to prepare our venison is as a sausage. This year Proeun found this great recipe. <\/p>\n<p>Hot Venison Italian Sausage<\/p>\n<p>2 pounds ground Venison<br \/>1 pound ground pork (we used all venison)<br \/>1\/2 cup water<br \/>4 tsp crushed red pepper<br \/>1 TBSP salt<br \/>1 TBSP black pepper<br \/>1 TBSP fennel seeds (we used anise)<br \/>2 tsp oregano<br \/>1 tsp basil<\/p>\n<p>We added paprika for color, sugar and Sriracha pepper sauce (Asian staple). We also chopped carrots, onion, bell pepper and cilantro. We made approximately 35 pounds of sausage so I am not sure on the proportions. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/7\/2\/6\/0\/8\/191317-180627\/GEDC3107.jpg?a=20\"><\/p>\n<p>We ground up the meat, chopped the veggies and added the seasoning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/7\/2\/6\/0\/8\/191317-180627\/GEDC3110.jpg?a=88\"><\/p>\n<p>Turns out sausage making is a long process, especially when you are using new equipment to get used to. Took us one whole evening to figure out how to use the grinder as a stuffer. We ended up calling customer service the next morning. Then it took us a while to figure out the best stuffing technique with natural casing so as not to burst the casing but get them even and full.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/7\/2\/6\/0\/8\/191317-180627\/GEDC3109.jpg?a=39\"><\/p>\n<p>Finally after about 2 hours of experimenting, starting and stopping to deal with children we figured it out. Sunday night we were up until 11:30 stuffing and cleaning up. Another long night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/7\/2\/6\/0\/8\/191317-180627\/GEDC3108.jpg?a=1\"><\/p>\n<p>We had some seasoned meat left over for meatballs and tried them in our weekly spaghetti. They were fabulous! Just drain off any fat before adding the sauce.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/7\/2\/6\/0\/8\/191317-180627\/GEDC3098.jpg?a=17\"><\/p>\n<p>We also went over to my parents and they made a wonderful dish of venison tenderloin sliced into medalions and dipped in dijon mustard and ground pecans and walnuts and pan fried&#8211;so amazing!. Add crusty bread some rice and pasta and you have a meal fit for a king. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the ways we have always wanted to prepare our venison is as a sausage. This year Proeun found this great recipe. Hot Venison Italian Sausage 2 pounds ground Venison1 pound ground pork (we used all venison)1\/2 cup water4 tsp crushed red pepper1 TBSP salt1 TBSP black pepper1 TBSP fennel seeds (we used anise)2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}