Crepinettes

I saw using caul fat before but forgot about it. Some
call it lace fat. I saw the recipe for sausage patties
wrapped in it that sounded good.. You can see You
tube videos, just search on crepinettes.

You can season the sausage patties about any way
you want. The one I used with dried apricots and
pistachio nuts sounded good to me. If I make
some again will try peppers & onions.

We had potato cakes and applesauce with them.It
said the cauol fat only lasts a few days in the
fridge but freezes well. I think it would be good to
wrap pork loin or tenderloins with it.


Patties made & wrapped

Making the patties

Frying them

My supper

Good taste

Smoked Polish Sausage & Kraut over Mash

Oct 10 2017

Pork and Kraut is one of my wife’s favorite meals and she likes it sour. Some kind of pork and kraut is my good luck New Year’s Day meal. I don’t fix it as often as I should. My favorite are some smoked ribs cooked in the kraut all day in a Crockpot.

I had almost a pound of kraut left from making sausage rubens to use up. I bought some Polish sausages from my butcher. I smoked them for 1 ½ hours in my Traeger then they went over some sliced sweet onions in a Crockpot covered with the kraut, about a half a beer and water, salt and pepper. It was on high for 3 + hours and then down to low. I left all the juice on the kraut so it was pretty sour.

I served it over some Bob Evan’s buttermilk redskin potatoes and had some organic bread and butter with it. I had Maille mustard with my sausage and it all tasted great!

Sausage

Getting some smoke

In the Crockpot over some onions

Kraut, salt & pepper over

My supper

Sausage Reuben

Oct 06 2017

I was sure glad I popped over to Mary’s cooking blog The Deep South Dish and checked out her sausage reuben, it’s delicious! She said she got the idea from the Brick Tavern in Decatur, Alabama and the sandwich they call  a Five Fingered Banjo Picker.

Mary is my favorite southern cook and has a lot of good recipes, she is from about as far south as you can get in Mississippi. Her cooking is pure southern with Mississippi, Cajun and Creole influence.

The wife loves reubens but I use pastrami instead of corned beef. I used a pound of Bob Evans sausage and made 3 patties from it. I did them in my Traeger pellet grill for 45 minutes and then browned them up in my gas Weber at 400 deg. on flat grill grates 3 minutes each side and melted 2 slices of swiss cheese on top. I toasted the Kaiser buns.

I had some sauerkraut, sliced onion and tomato with Maille mustard on mine. The wife didn’t have onion on hers. We both thought they were pretty darned good. It was a good thing I didn’t fix and sides but had some chips with the sandwich. The sandwich was a whole meal, thanks for the idea Mary!

Click Here for Mary's recipe

Good!

Getting some smoke

Getting browned

Mustard

Kraut

Onion & tomato

My supper

Italian Sausage Sauce over Spaghetti Squash

Feb 08 2017

Tonight’s supper was tasty and pretty easy to make. We both like spaghetti squash, my favorite is just as a side with butter & garlic salt. The wife likes it with spaghetti sauce over it so I make it that way for her once in a while. You can make this in a bout 1 ½ hours.

The squash is hard shelled and hard to cut raw. I usually nuke it in the microwave 4 to 5 min. to soften and then cut in half. My small one tonight had a bad spot I had to cut out and was able then to cut in half. Some people cook them whole but I like to get the seeds & gook out of the center before cooking. I season them with some garlic salt and then place on a foil lined cookie sheet with a pat of butter under. I bake them at 350 deg. for one hour.

For the sauce I use ground chuck or Italian sausage or brats. Tonight I had 4 Italian brats from my butcher. I removed it from the casings and browned it up and then add in chopped onion, green peppers and garlic. I let that simmer about 5 minutes and then add in the sauce let simmer 15 to 20 minutes. My sauce tonight was Classico’s 4 cheeses. You can use any sauce you want or make your own. I usually rely on Classico or Newman’s Own for my sauces rather than make my own.

For a side I sautéed some sliced fennel, onions and garlic. I should have waited to near the end to add the garlic since I burnt it. It still tasted good.

I served the meat sauce over the squash, topped with some mozzarella and melted some under the broiler. We had toasted English muffins with it. Sorry I missed a shot of the finished sauce in the skillet.

Note: You can use the half squashes to serve from too. Just spoon the spaghetti sauce in the center of the squash.

Ingredients

Squash ready to bake

Brats browned, onions, green peppers & garlic added

The fennel

My side, bread & butter

My supper

County Fair Italian Sausage & Spaghetti

Oct 30 2016

I was anxious to cook tonight’s supper.  When I was at my butchers the other day one of the Kah brothers gave me some sausage to try. He said he was trying for the taste of the County Fairs Italian sausage and wanted me to try them. I think you will find a version of this at about any County or State fair, Italian sausage links grilled with peppers and onions in a sandwich. We usually opted for the whole hog sausage patty sandwich at our County Fair.

I had spaghetti with Newman’s Own Sockarooni sauce, a salad and garlic knots. Our son and family came to eat with us.

I smoked the sausage for 45 minutes at 200 deg. on my Traeger then browned them up on my Weber Spirit. I had blue cheese dressing on my salad and some Maille mustard for the sausage.

The son and I both liked the sausage. I think he had cheese in them and I didn’t care so much for that and could have stood a little more green pepper taste. It still was pretty good sausage.

For my supper

45 minutes on my Traeger

Browning on my Weber Spirit

My salad

My supper

Smoked Sausage W/Fried Potatoes and Cabbage

Sept 28 2016

We went from hot summer to fall in about 2 days here in Ohio. I don’t think it got much above 60 today. Oh well the supper I had planned would taste better in cooler weather. I had smoked sausage and fried potatoes and cabbage.

A little country store about 5 miles from here had some good looking sausage that came from a farm and butcher shop just south of here. I have wanted to see if it was good.

I decided to smoke the sausage on my Traeger for an hour then brown in a skillet. I had some Dutch baby yellow potatoes to use. I cleaned and cut in half about a pound of the Dutch potatoes and cut about ¾ small head of cabbage in 1 inch squares.

I poured about 1 ½ cups of water in my Instant Pot, added a steamer basket, the cabbage and potatoes. I lightly salted it. I did them on steam mode for 10 minutes after the sausage was on the smoker for a half hour. They would be done to add to the skillet.

After the sausage was on at 190 deg. on my smoker an hour I browned them up some, about 4 minutes per side in a skillet sprayed with a little olive oil. I removed them to a plate and added a couple pats of butter and the potatoes and cabbage to the skillet to brown some. I added a little salt and fresh ground pepper. When it was getting brown I nestled the sausage back in and heated about 5 minutes.

I served it with some toasted English muffins with butter. I had some Maille mustard with my sausage. The wife and I agreed it was good, pretty good sausage and we always like fried potatoes and cabbage!

The sausage

Potatoes and cabbage in the IP

Sausage ready on the smoker

Browning the sausage

Ready to serve

My supper

Yep some good sausage

Sausage Country Gravy over Cornbread

July 18 2016

Tonight’s supper had to go with the leftover cornbread and I wanted something easy. I would have preferred beans but then the wife wouldn’t eat! I got a pound of sausage from my butcher and found some nice yellow zucchini I would mix in with some onions and make country gravy.

I fried up the sausage and then added the zucchini and onions, a little salt and pepper. I had a batch of Pioneer country gravy made I poured over and let it all simmer a while.

My wife and I both had it over cornbread and some tomatoes on the side. It tasted great; I was craving some gravy!

My supper