Gabe and I have been thinking about grinding our own meat for a while. No better way to know exactly what's in the ground beef you're eating! When Gabe's aunt offered us a chance to buy some of the pigs she hand raises, we decided buying half a pig would be awesome! Most of the pig was processed by the butcher, cut and ready to eat. Instead of having the butcher turn the scraps into sausage, we decided this would be a perfect chance to try grinding our own meat. Gabe's dad and Joanne got me this for Christmas, and yesterday we ground half of the scraps into 1lb packages of ground pork and the other half into breakfast sausage using this recipe.While Gabe trimmed and cut the meat. I mixed all the spices and herbs together.
Then we mixed everything together.
And sent it through the grinder.
It was really easy! This is going to open up a whole new world to the best burgers and sausages imaginable. I think sausage will be on the breakfast menu in our house tomorrow! Next year, when we buy another half a pig from Aunt Jaki, we may take on making our own bacon too.
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We're so happy that you're enjoying your met grinder and Jaki's piggie. We're having pork steak for dinner tonight. Speaking of bacon, 4-Star called and said it's ready. Tom will pick it up on Monday.
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