Baymule's 500 Pound Boar!

[Baymule]

We have just about wiped out Wilbur. Still have a freezer shelf stacked full of pork chops. No pan sausage left. Got tired of pork shoulder and ham steaks, so I thawed them out, had 52 pounds. Been making sausage and stuffing it, BJ is smoking it. Dang! It sure smells good!

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Looks YUMMY

 

[frustratedearthmother]

That looks good! No plain ground pork? I'll be grinding some or all of my next one. I love ground pork/beef mixture for meatloaf. And, if you don't want plain ground pork you can always turn it into pan sausage. But, I gotta say - I can almost smell those links smoking from here!

 

[Bruce]

We need smella-internet!!

 

[Baymule]

Yes, we had a lot of ground pork too. I mix it with ground lamb. But I took most of what we had left and thawed that out, going to make pan sausage. Son in law can’t eat wood smoked food, it gives him terrible indigestion. He is allergic to nuts, stands to reason the wood smoke would make him sick too. I got some collagen casing I’m going to experiment with, so maybe I can make him some fresh sausage.

BJ is in the shower, I’m cleaning up the kitchen, will smoke the rest tomorrow. Ran out of hog casing. I figured this would take 2 days, it’s taking 3. Gotta go do chores!

 

[Baymule]

My first attempt at collagen casings. They had a blow out.

 

[Bruce]

Well you can't eat THOSE! They are no longer sausage shaped. Does make it a bit harder to cook I would guess.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

That's a big ol' oops! I have lots of those lol. I oops'd a canning jar this morning making dog food. One of 'em lost it's bottom - yikes!

 

[Baymule]

I wanted to make breakfast sausage, tried again on the collagen casings. Well those looked stupid! There must be a way to make sausage with those, but whatever magic process that is, I don’t know what it is.

So I tried again, using no casing. I liked that better, cooked some and they didn’t blow up.

That worked so I made 200 of them, layered between wax paper. They are in the freezer, tomorrow I’ll bag them up and vacuum seal them.

BJ finished smoking the stuffed sausage, it is vacuum sealed and in the freezer. Mess is cleaned up, I’m tired. What’s for supper? Uhhhhh.... sausage?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Looks great!