Techniques

Homemade Sausage: Making Your Own Ground or Minced Meat

Fresh Ground Pork

A part of the experience of making homemade sausage is the process of making your own ground or minced meat. This is not to say that you cannot purchase the ground meat at the grocery store or have the butcher grind selected meats for you, but it does take away from the experience in my …

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Homemade Sausage: Kitchen Aid Sausage Attachment

Meat Grinder Attachment from Kitchen Aid

Many of us own a Kitchen Aid Mixer that stands nice and pretty on our kitchen counter that is literally too heavy and big to move in and out of a kitchen cabinet the handful of times a year that it is to be used. Likewise, most of us own a Kitchen Aid attachment pack …

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Mysterious Mirepoix

Onion, Carrots, Garlic, Thyme & Rosemary

When Chefs use this term it sounds like an exotic ingredient or complicated culinary feat.  It actuality, is a very basic combination of vegetables, diced & mixed together before sauteing. Some mirepoix combinations include leafy greens, as found in soup, and others contains meat, au gras, if you need the term. Mirepoix is a French …

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The unexpected side-dish: Popovers

Easy Popovers

Most of our family meals consist of 3 parts.  Meat + veggie + starch= dinner. Not very inspiring, I know, but it covers all the bases & keeps everyone happy. Chris & Alec, my meat-o-holics, Lily: my veggie lover, and Violet the carb queen. Over the holidays I decided to try something new for the …

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Italian Sausage Simmered with Marinara Sauce

Italian Pasta Sauce with Sausage

The steps required to make a pasta sauce with Italian sausage is much simpler then you realize. There are two requirements: Marinara Sauce and Italian Sausage. One way to prepare this Italian Sausage (Sweet or Hot) with Marinara is to brown (pan / pot fry) sliced raw sausage in the pot that you will use …

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