on June 12, 2009 10:04 PM
I took the hogs over to Meyer's Elgin Sausage on Monday and had them make some sausage for me.
I went with the garlic sausage and had them smoke it too.
It's pretty damned tasty. Unfortunately I'm on a diet so I I only got a little piece, but it was excellent.
I was expecting the garlic to be a lot more potent, but it's fairly subtle. (That's probably better anyways since I'm going to be giving a lot of this away to friends and neighbors.)
There's not a hint of gaminess in the flavor, and it's got just the right amount of black pepper.
I like it.
Got my pan sausage back from Johnny G's butcher shop in south Austin (Manchaca). Had some for breakfast this morning. Very good, well seasoned. Quite lean too (just enough fat, but not dripping like your commercial tube/breakfast/pan sausage can be).
I could get used to this. :-)