Memorable meals

[Piobaire]

Have never made my own sausage… to do it right, you really need a dedicated grinder and stuffer, yes?

edit: other than breakfast sausage patties, but thats like cheating.

Some people have the Kitchen Aide grinding attachment and tell me it's acceptable. I've got a 1hp grinder from Cabala's. It'll tear through 10# of cubed meat in 3-4 minutes and yields a nice clean grind, no smearing or mush. I've also seen pics of people running the grind right into casings off the Kitchen Aide, but I can't see how that would yield a good product. After the grind you want to put the paddle attachment onto your mixer and activate the myosin so the meat takes on a sticky texture.

So, yeah, I'm saying dedicated equipment if you want a quality product.

 

[Lizard23]

I have the all metal kitchen aid attachment. It works well for small batches but cant imagine processing anything more than a couple pounds with it

 

[edinatlanta]

I'm literally not surprised @admin spitroasts sausage.

 

[jcman311]

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November 2020, homemade venison sausage from a doe I harvested. I roasted serrano peppers, added them with other spices and a little pork fat. Roasted on skewers over well-seasoned hickory.

I'm questioning a lot here with the supposed IT admin of the site doing such manual things and living in what appears to be some sort of cave dwelling.

 

[admin]

I'm questioning a lot here with the supposed IT admin of the site doing such manual things and living in what appears to be some sort of cave dwelling.

I’m a walking anachronism.

 

[jbarwick]

Recently I remember a great meal I had which was from my first trip to Germany with my now wife. I flew into Frankfurt and had to take the train to Dortmund where I would meet her and her grandparents. She flew over a week before me so I was traveling alone without knowing any German. I have directions of what to do in the airport to pick up bags then how to make it to the train station. This went smoothly. Next was the error of getting off the fast train early then having to figure out how to buy another ticket at a deserted train station to make it the next leg. Anyway, I made it to Dortmund then found a cab to get me to the house.

We then head to lunch where my wife's grandparents loved to take people. Her grandfather, who has since passed, loved sitting at a big table so the 4 of us sat at a table for 8-10. He then ordered a bottle of champagne as his wife frowned upon his consumption but not when celebrating. I did not know anything he said, as he refused to speak english, but he was the type of story teller that would start a story, then speed up the wording as he went along, then finish with a laugh. This happened all through lunch. I remember having pork schnitzel and fries with mayo until my stomach could have exploded. Then came dessert in this big martini looking glass and there is a picture where my wife's grandfather is staring down his glass like a kid in a candy store.

I think we are going back next year. Hopefully there is a bigger table as the family has grown!

 

[Texasmade]

it was so ******* expensive but free for me because I won a bet and my friends had to pay. France was playing Germany in the Euros and France ended up winning.

I was in Paris eating at a 3 Michelin Star restaurant while France and Germany were playing in the Euro Semis back in like 2016. The whole restaurant went nuts when France won. The waiter told my friends and I that this was the first time France ever beat Germany in the Euros. The Champs Elysees was nuts afterwards. Meal was great because it was free for me for winning a Champions League Final bet.