Monday, October 4, 2010

Sausages, of link and patty

Alright, so there are no links... but patties! I made sausage patties! ME... the girl who doesn't like to touch meat!

INCONCEIVABLE! (you say)

Not so, kittens! (now we're back to me again)

Here's the sitch: I had 1/2 lb of leftover ground pork from the meatloaf meat-rubbing experience you read about a bit ago. (Don't worry... this post is a little late. The meat was very much still fresh when I sausaged it.) So I thought about what ground pork on its lonesome was actually good for. And... I had no idea. So I consulted allrecipes.com's ingredient search.

Are you familiar with this tool, kittens? Because it's awesome and you should be.


You just list the ingredients you do and don't want (I wanted neither a breakfast casserole or liverwurst) and voila! It gives you options. I saw sausages popping up all over the place, so I went in that direction.

I read a bunch of sausage patty recipes and decided that few of them had everything I wanted. And as far as the ones that did... well, I didn't have everything they wanted. (Such is life, right?) So I finagled and guessed... and came up with this:


To my 1/2 lb of ground pork, I added:

1/3 teaspoon thyme
1/3 teaspoon salt
1/3 teaspoon pepper
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1/3 teaspoon crushed red pepper
few shakes of hot sauce
a good drizzling of butter maple syrup

Then I put my hand in a Ziploc bag...


(Aren't those things versatile?!*) And I mixed up the meat without having to touch it or thoroughly devastate it with a spoon.

After spending some quality time in a skillet on medium high heat...


My sausage patties were ready for action. And they were quite good! Spicy and sausagey without being too greasy or heavy. I loved them. So much so that I...


cut up a patty the next morning, cracked an egg over it, and made a sausage, egg, and cheese bagel sandwich that made my work lunch. And, let's be honest, my whole day.

* My mom, who is of the I'm-not-going-to-look-so-you-just-narrate-for-me camp of scary movie watchers, has come up with a particularly genius way of watching scary movies through a ziploc bag. I'd explain... but she might never forgive me to putting just this part on the interwebs. Point is... ziploc bags are the bomb.

4 comments:

Evan said...

If you despise raw meat so much, maybe you should invest in a box of disposable rubber gloves. Not that Ziploc bags don't work, it's just that they don't work particularly well.

Anonymous said...

Awesome post! And yes, ziploc bags are the greatest. I just this minute took a picture of your sister actually wearing a ziploc "hat" while she watches The Strangers!!

Josh has decided that for October 2010, he will watch a scary movie each night, so far so good!

Keven just scared the begeezies out of all of them by slamming the door into the living room during a particularly suspenseful part, good times.

<3

Amanda said...

Very true, Evan. Just the fact that disposable gloves don't have corners sets them above a ziploc.

Thanks for backing me up, Mom. Ooops... I mean, very loving and knowledgeable Anonymous commenter. ; )

Eva said...

I just sent the last 20 minutes trying to figure out where you had this posted. I remembered that you had posted a recipe search page that you could search by ingredients but I thought it was on twitter. Searching for 'search' doesn't work all that well. Especially on twitter.