Today's Cooking
We just made a batch of Spicy Maple Breakfast Sausage. \o/ This is the first time we've used the meat grinder attachment for the KitchenAid, although we've had it for a while. We're going to cook some of these for supper and try freezing some for later.
EDIT 12-31-20: This turned out really well. The maple is notable but not overwhelming. The spice level is moderate, not too hot or too bland, and nicely complex. I've never had sausage this good from a store. It is necessary to mash the patties quite thin to get the middles to cook without burning the outsides. The texture is dense rather than crumbly because the spices get kneaded in after grinding. The patties were very filling -- neither of us ate as much as we expected, so there's some left for Doug's lunch tomorrow.
We used 1 1/2 pounds of meat instead of the listed 1 pound, so I increased the sage and black pepper slightly. Next time I'll add rose pepper for the extra, with its floral-sweet flavor. This recipe can easily be made milder (reduce the black pepper or omit the crushed red pepper) or hotter (increase crushed red pepper or add something hotter like hatch red chili).
EDIT 12-31-20: This turned out really well. The maple is notable but not overwhelming. The spice level is moderate, not too hot or too bland, and nicely complex. I've never had sausage this good from a store. It is necessary to mash the patties quite thin to get the middles to cook without burning the outsides. The texture is dense rather than crumbly because the spices get kneaded in after grinding. The patties were very filling -- neither of us ate as much as we expected, so there's some left for Doug's lunch tomorrow.
We used 1 1/2 pounds of meat instead of the listed 1 pound, so I increased the sage and black pepper slightly. Next time I'll add rose pepper for the extra, with its floral-sweet flavor. This recipe can easily be made milder (reduce the black pepper or omit the crushed red pepper) or hotter (increase crushed red pepper or add something hotter like hatch red chili).