[HadassahSukkot]

Yes and no.

I make my own southern sausage (Beef/lamb instead of pork - it's shaped like hamburgers), and corned beef. I got a recipe somewhere I saved for pepperoni. I've debated getting a deli slicer, but it's one more thing I have to find a place for in a place that has no storage!

I've been thinking about getting casings to make hotdogs and other sausages on my own in the basement or hanging outside in the winter months.

I have a meat grinder, so I've used it to grind my own chicken and turkey for chicken hamburgers. I've not thought to roll it to make chicken nuggets, so thanks rjy9343 for that idea!!!

The Pepperoni recipe I was given is this:

10 pounds lean 80% hamburger beef or turkey
5 Tablespoons salt
1 Tablespoon sugar
2 Tablespoons cayenne pepper
3 Tablespoons sweet paprika
1 Tablespoons crushed anise seed
1 teaspoon garlic, very finely minced
1 cup dry red wine
Salt and pepper to taste

You can always mess with the seasoning to taste or to what it available. You can always do this in smaller batches. Take about one good handful size and roll the mixture on wax paper into sausage shape. Bake in oven over the 8-12 hour period at 175 or as low as your oven will go. Roll sausage every hour or so to keep it round and keep it even through out its drying out/cooking time.

The homemade sausage recipe I have varies each time I make it... but it's based on the one my grandfather wrote down as a note at his house and my grandma copied when I wrote to her asking for the recipe.

Pork Butts grind up the meat
Put the seasoning in it.....Mix with your hands. After you mixed it in well, fry up a small patty. After it is cooked, then taste the meat. Decide if you need to add more seasoning to the rest of the meat. If you add more, then do another test patty until you have the seasoning at the right taste.

salt
red pepper
sage
sugar (a little)
black pepper

You can make it with beef, chicken or turkey.

The Corned beef recipe I use is similar to this one, except you cure the meat in the fridge for an entire month.

I had a pastrami recipe, but it required smoking it, and I am not sure i can do that properly with our grill. It does have a smoking option, but DH is really not good with the grill yet.

I have not made the Italian sausage recipe I had on hand, but I know it can be made with lamb or beef. I hadn't figured out if I wanted to/could manage to do the casings myself without breaking them constantly or getting weirded out because I am using real casings iykwim. And for some weird reason I never thought to just make them as patties, press out with my hamburger press and freeze. crazy me!