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That looks nothing like a meal from my bachelor days (something that one could eat standing over the sink with little or no preparation/cooking).
Would choose the gyro over pizza any day. Nice meal...the ladies have no idea whar they missed.
I haven't calculated how much is costing me to make sausage, but I did that for smoked fish and charcuterie. I included my time at straight rate (vs 1.5x or 2x overtime - real rates in my line of work). It came out more expensive than high quality store bought products. Some a lot more...
Reminds me of a fishing outting with my fam on Lake Erie (caandian side). We chartered a boat. Captain offered to clean the fish for 35 cents each. We caught about 120 perch ..took him and his wife a few hours to clean. Can't say he looked happy when we picked up the fillets.
I make organ sausage 1-2/year: all pig organs (cooked), rendered lard, some meat (cooked), the fried bits left after rendering lard. All spice snd thyme for condiments. Cooked rice or grits as filller. Poached after stuffing, best in hog middles. Serve cold or oven roasted.
Liver...you can make...
Great lakes yellow perch in supermarkets in my area. My favorite freshwater fish is walleye, but i think yellow perch beats it, now that i had some again after while.
Simply fried in the pan. These are small fish...about 9-10 in a lb (fillet)
For my cold smoked sausages... i cook them as follows:
- coiled in a frying pan, with water a bit higher then half of the height (of the sausage); bit of oil in the water
- cook until the water drops by half
- flip the sausage and cook until all water has evaporated
- continue cooking and until...