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    Star Anise added to Italian Sausage?

    I've seen others combine fennel and anise seed in Italian sausage and I always wondered if the fennel got 'lost' within the anise taste, making the addition of fennel a bit moot. What are your thoughts on the combination taste?
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    Star Anise added to Italian Sausage?

    I agree, I think he is confused, perhaps he just wants a bit more of a fennel/anise taste. I think that star anise, like cloves and Shechuan pepper, is one of those spices that need a lot of care or else it it totally over powers everything else. I think that perhaps I need to go back to him...
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    Star Anise added to Italian Sausage?

    The spice mix looks very similar to a South African Boerewors sausage spice mix! It's certainly more 'picante' than the locals around here would eat though!!!!
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    Star Anise added to Italian Sausage?

    I use fennel seed in my Italian sausage and when he mentioned Star Anise I wondered if he meant he would like the stronger taste of anise seed, but he is insistant he means Star Anise!
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    Star Anise added to Italian Sausage?

    Here in Portugal I have been successfully making both hot and sweet Italian sausage for new American friends that have moved into the area. One of the guys who liked my sausage said that it was missing Star Anise - something apparently his Italian father used to do way back in the day - and...
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    Hot chili in sausage

    That sounds a good hefty quantity for a chilli head!!!
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    Hot chili in sausage

    Thank you for that advice - I hadn't thought to grind some of the habanero flakes into a powder and I'll definetly do that.
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    Hot chili in sausage

    This friend makes a fantastic Reaper hot sauce, edible but.......my oh my!!!!! He has a chilli farm and a shop specialising in selling spices/spice based products. Here in Portugal it used to be nigh on impossible to get anything like this without scouring the internet., so he kept the Brits...
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    Hot chili in sausage

    Thanks for that tip, I shall have a browse through what Poli and Marianski have got and see what they go for.
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    Hot chili in sausage

    I've got a friend coming over and he wants to see how to make sausage. He's a real chili head, uses super hot chillis to make his own hot sauce etc, and he wants to make a hot sausage using dried habanero's. The trouble is, though I use jalapeno and cayenne regularly in my own sausage, the heat...
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    Reheating Sausage

    It was the girlies down the bar that moaned!! The guys didn't seem to notice, but that may have had something to do with the beers they were also consuming!!!
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    Reheating Sausage

    Well, I got gentle reheating wrong then! Henceforth I shall 'hot and fast' it!!! Thanks for the advice, I knew you guys would know!!!!
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    Reheating Sausage

    After I have smoked sausage the vast majority of it is packed up and frozen for later consumption. But what I'm finding is that after I have defrosted and gently reheated the sausage in a frying pan that the casings become chewy. The casings were fine when freshly smoked, the chewiness only...
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    Why use mustard seed?

    I'm right with you on that. And you can add whole bay leaves to that as well (though only in other things I cook!) - just doesn't taste of anything!
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    Jalapeno - Fresh or Dried

    Definetly a struggle to get red now, though not so bad in mid summer. Here in central Portugal it is like living in Britain back in the 60's and finding a large variety of foodstuffs to do anything sausage, BBQ, curing, ethnic is very difficult! Nothing much changes here and food habits for the...
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