Being poor allows one to do stupid stuff that actually saves money and at the same time get basically free, great food. Well we used pork to make up a few batch's of sausage last eve. Made 25 lbs of fresh breakfast sausage and 20 lbs of honey garlic rolls plus 10 pounds of straight garlic rolls[these last 2 have the cure in them and will be smoked and cooked so we can just eat them as we want]. Also used moose meat on the coiled sausage and for 10 lbs of the breakfast fare. Went with a 50/50 mixture this time around. Cool part of doing this nonsense ourselves is we can experiment lots.
Lad grinding near frozen meat.
15lbs of pure pork goodness.
Lass loading casing on the horn.
Lad mixing spices and such in ice water.[Cold is good]
Both lads mixing the near frozen meat with the spices. Sure was fun listening to them [female canine] about cold hands.
Making links of fresh sausage with a stuffer that works fairly well. Young fellas found out they was only thinking they were the boss.
Rolls of garlic sausage in the smoker. Always amazes me how the curing agents change the color of the meat.