My Saturday So Far

Woke up and made some pigs in a blanket on the Egg this morning. First time for me making breakfast on the Egg.

This afternoon, 12 lbs of pork shoulder ground up, 6 seasoned for bratwurst, 6 for Russian sausage. In the fridge now for the flavors to blend and we'll stuff them and cook some up tomorrow.

Bout to start some chili on the Egg. I'm going to be in a Chili Throwdown Oct 15th with three other Texas bloggers. Would love if you guys could check it out and vote for me. There will be prizes for some of the voters including a 6 qt cast iron dutch oven among other things. I'll let you know later on in the week where to check it out if you are interested.

I'll get pictures up tomorrow or Monday when I have time. Gotta get that chili going before guests start showing up. Hope everybody is having a great weekend.

Sounds like a fun weekend. Looking forward to seeing the pictures.

Jim

The Russian sausage sounds interesting...can you compare it to anything that's fairly common here in the US?

Or is it just a mix of pork and vodka?

Honestly, I have no idea. I got a bottle of Tsar Dust Memories from Penzey Spices (formerly called Russain sausage seasoning). Just now getting around to using it. Ingredients listed are salt, garlic, cinammon, black pepper, nutmeg and marjoram. We'll be stuffing them here in a bit and maybe trying them out today.

That's an interesting combination of spices. Hopefully the sausages turned out well.

You want to hear something funny? After spending all that time grinding, mixing and stuffing the sausages.....neither of us felt like lookint at sausages any more, let alone cooking them so we ordered Chinese food. I'll grill some up tomorrow or the next day and see how they came out. The test patty that we fried up was tasty, though.