Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Sausage Fest!

No, no, no...get your mind out of the gutter.

Aaron and his brother both have Kitchen Aide mixers with the sausage grinding attachments. They decided to devote a weekend to nothing but sausage grinding, seasoning, and stuffing. Hence, "The Beefcake Brothers' 1st Annual Sausage Fest 2009" was born. And no festival is
 complete without tee-shirts to commemorate the event, right? Behold my craftiness:

That's the ever-adorable nephew T-man wearing his toddler-sized Sausage Fest shirt. I superimposed Aaron's and Ryan's faces onto an old photo Lou Ferrigno and Arnold Schwarzenegger and linked the two with a long string of sausages between their hands. I'm pretty proud of it!

Here are some more photos from Sausage Fest '09:
Ryan trimming the pork shoulder, Aaron cutting the turkey

Aaron grinding, T-man supervising

and here I am, twisting strings of links.

All in all, we made 5 types of sausage: Italian Turkey, Bratwurst, Andouille, Sweet Italian, and Spicy Italian. However, the Spicy Italian turned into Super-Salty Italian, so we mixed half of it with all of the Sweet Italian before stuffing them into casings. Improvise, adapt and overcome!

Not a pregnancy-related post, but it was still really fun. And tasty, too!

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