Italian Style Sausage Recipe

                                       Italian Style Sausage

Ingredients:

* 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
* 1 teaspoon dried parsley
* 1 teaspoon Italian-style seasoning
* 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
* 1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
* 3/4 teaspoon crushed anise seeds
* 1/2 teaspoon paprika
* 1/2 teaspoon dried minced onion
* 2 teaspoons salt
* 2 pounds ground pork

Cooking Procedure:

1. In a small bowl, combine the ground black pepper, parsley, Italian-style seasoning, garlic powder, crushed red pepper flakes, anise, paprika, minced onion flakes and salt; mix well.
2. Place pork in a separate large bowl and add the spice mix to it. Mix this thoroughly with your hands.
3. In a large skillet over medium high heat, saute the seasoned pork for 10 minutes, or until well browned and crumbly.

Italian Fennel Pork Sausage Recipe

                                        Italian Fennel Pork Sausage

Ingredients:

2 Boston pork butts,skinned,boned,and cut into small chunks (including fat), weighing 6 pounds after trimming
1-1/2 tablespoons salt
2 teaspoons black pepper
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
5 tablespoons minced broad leaf parsley
1/2 cup grated Asiago cheese
4 tablespoons crushed fennel seeds
3 garlic cloves, minced

Cooking Procedure:

Crisp fennel seeds in a pan in a preheated 325-degree F. oven for 10 minutes.In a large bowl combine all ingredients and thoroughly blend with your hands.Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight for flavors to meld.

Put seasoned pork chunks through medium plate of a food chopper. Place in a large bowl and mix thoroughly to evenly distribute seasonings.Fry a sample patty in melted butter to test for proper seasoning. All sausages can be prepared as patties (the easiest and many think the most flavorful method of preparation), or run through a sausage-stuffer into hog casings then frozen. All food choppers or grinders come with sausage-stuffing instructions.