Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Home Made Sausage Vs Commercial Sausage

Have you ever chewed on a bite of sausage or salami and establish a os chip, or a piece of difficult achromatic "gristle" that aghast your teeth? I only experience that on rare occasions when eating commercially made sausage at a restaurant. When they state they utilize "the whole hog," they're telling mostly the truth.

When you do your ain sausage, you will not set every possible bit in the meat you're going to grind. You'll take any small blood clots, the tendons, the ligaments, the os fragments, and you'll go forth nil in the meat that you aren't willing to eat. You certainly won't desire your household and friends eating something that you yourself aren't willing to eat either.

The best primal cut of porc to do sausage out of is the shoulder butt. The shoulder butt end adjoins the porc shoulder, or "picnic shoulder," at the top of the shoulder, between the rib end of the porc loin, and the head. What little cervix the hog have is mostly a portion of the shoulder butt, at the fat end. The outside of the shoulder butt, the tegument side, is a layer of achromatic fat. How thick the fat layer is varies, but if you desire very thin sausage, nearly all of that layer can be easily cut off. The cervix end of the shoulder butt, the fat end, incorporates a gland. The secretory organ is grayish, usually about an inch across, and if you cut into it, is shiny. It's very easy to see, and very easy to separate it from the achromatic fat. The gland, while harmless, left in the meat, can give the sausage a acrimonious taste. As you cut the shoulder butt end into strips about 1 ½ ins foursquare (for easy eating into a little grinder) it's easy to take as much fat as you wish. Too, if you haven't seen the secretory organ yet, you will while cutting the meat into strips. Any sausage necessitates some fat for flavoring the meat, but you should be the exclusive monitoring device of how much of it you desire in your ain sausage.

As you're cutting the shoulder butt, you'll sometimes happen a little blood coagulum or two around the bone, which of course of study should be removed. It's harmless, but can do a achromatic topographic point in your deep-fried sausage. You'll happen conjunction sinews and ligaments that are easy to identify. They'll be achromatic and shiny, difficult and tough. They're easily removed by simply sliding your knife leaf blade along them. Finally take the os and the os bits that you'll almost always find, and you'll have got the high-grade meat that sausage can be made from.

All the above you can do when you make your ain sausage. If that attention were taken in commercial sausage, if the commercial cats removed all the small bothersome parts described above, we wouldn't happen the small os chips, small achromatic pieces of cartilage, the small achromatic spots, and the fat content that sometimes boundary lines on "disgusting."

Fresh? Unless you raise your ain hogs, you can't acquire any freshman sausage than what you do at home. You'll be completely astonied at the difference.

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Monday, May 14, 2007

Ground Beef Hamburger Patty Recipe - Juicy Grilled Hamburger Patty

There's nothing worse than biting into a dry, unappetizing hamburger. You won't have that problem with this great grilled hamburger recipe. Hamburgers come hot off the grill with a delectable juicy texture that makes each bite really enjoyable.

2 pounds ground beef


1 egg, beaten


3/4 cup bread crumbs, dry


3 tablespoons evaporated milk


2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce


1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper


2 cloves garlic, minced

Directions

Preheat the grill on high setting.

In a large bowl, combine the ground beef, bread crumbs, evaporated milk, Worcestershire sauce, cayenne pepper and the garlic; mix ingredients with your hands. Form into 8 individual patties.

Lightly oil the grill grate. Grill hamburger patties for 5 minutes on each side, until well done.

=> Ground Beef Hamburger Meat Recipe: Hamburger with Ketchup Gravy

If there's one thing that we know goes great together, it's hamburger and ketchup. Now here's a tasty twist on using ketchup on a hamburger patty. This ground beef hamburger recipe will become one of your favorites. The meat marinates in the gravy while it cooks and is oh, so delicious.

1 pound ground beef


1/2 cup ketchup


1/2 cup bread crumbs


1 teaspoon onion powder


1/2 teaspoon steak seasoning, or to taste


Salt and pepper


2 teaspoons vegetable oil


1 large onion, cut up into chunks


1 cup ketchup


1/2 cup water, as needed

Directions

In a medium bowl, combine ground beef, 1/2 cup ketchup, bread crumbs, onion powder, steak sauce, salt and pepper to taste. Form hamburger into thick patties or meatballs.

Heat the vegetable oil in a heavy skillet on medium high heat. Cook patties until browned on both sides. Remove patties from skillet and place onto a paper towel lined plate. Drain grease from the skillet.

In the same skillet, slowly stir together the 1/2 cup ketchup and 1/2 cup water. You can add more water if the mixture is too thick, or, more ketchup if the mixture is too thin. Add in the onion and bring mixture to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low.

Add hamburger patties to the skillet and cover. Simmer for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, stir gravy. If the gravy is too thin, continue to simmer with the lid off until it thickens to the desired consistency.

=> Best Hamburger Recipe: Bacon Wrapped Hamburger

This qualifies as a best hamburger recipe because it is packed with flavor. It features two kinds of cheeses, onion, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce and bacon. Wow. This recipe is a winner no matter how you serve it up.

1/2 cup cheddar cheese, shredded


1 tablespoon parmesan cheese, grated


1 small onion, chopped


1 egg


1 tablespoon ketchup


1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce


1/2 teaspoon salt


1/8 teaspoon pepper


1 pound ground beef


6 slices bacon


6 hamburger buns, split

Directions

Preheat skillet or grill on high heat.

In a large bowl, combine the cheddar cheese, parmesan cheese, onion, egg, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. Crumble the ground beef into the bowl and mix thoroughly with your hands. Shape mixture into 6 patties. Wrap one slice of bacon around the edge of each one. Secure bacon to patties with toothpicks.

Place patties into skillet or onto the hot grill and cook for 5 minutes on each side,
or until well done. Remove the toothpicks before putting hamburgers onto buns.

=> Gourmet Hamburger Recipe: Spicy Blue Cheese Hamburger

If you're a little adventurous, then you'll just love this gourmet blue cheese burger with a spicy twist. The hot wing sauce is that extra special secret ingredient that will have people trying to guess what it is. Maybe you'll tell them – maybe you won't, either way, these burgers are fabulous.

1 pound lean ground beef


1/2 cup blue cheese, crumbled


1/2 cup onion, minced


1/2 cup hot wing sauce (normally used for chicken hot wings)


1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce


1 teaspoon ground black pepper


1 teaspoon yellow mustard


4 hamburger buns, split

Directions

In a medium bowl, combine the ground beef, blue cheese and the onion. Add the Worcestershire sauce, mustard and pepper. Mix together well using your hands.

Make 6 patties and then place them on a plate. Cover patties with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.

Preheat grill on high heat.

Take patties out of refrigerator. Pour hot wing sauce over patties until the tops (only) are well covered with sauce. Let patties sit there for 10 minutes.

Cook hamburgers for 5 minutes per side, until well done.

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