Sausages

Hey, if you're like me, you love sausage!

Here's a photo of me and some friends making it.

Now you want to know how to do the same thing. Here's what you do.

Get 50 lbs of trimmed pork shoulder butt. Don't trim all the fat off because you think it is healthy. Sausage isn't supposed to be healthy, so don't do it!

Cut the trimmed pork into 3 inch cubes and add the following spices before putting it through a grinder:

11 oz. of salt
7 oz. of black pepper
3 oz of fennel whole
2 oz of fennel ground, preferably freshly ground. A coffee grinder is the best
1 Tablespoon of crushed red pepper. (add more to spice this up a bit)

Mix everything up real good and then grind. But not too fine. You're not making hot dogs here.

Stuff the coursely ground and spiced pork into a sausage press and squeeze it into natural hog casing. Your sausage should look similar to the above photo.

Enjoy!

Great Flickr Photo

Check out more of these great photos on hms_chic's flickr photostream

Our Visit to Disneyland!

Noodles and I went to Disneyland today!

We saw Mickey!



I got to shake his hand!

Mickey was kind enough to pose with the two of us. I had no idea how short Mickey is. Noodles is actually taller than Mickey! Only his ears give him the apparent height advantage. What a great guy. He took the time to pose with us while controlling a Multi-Billion dollar company. Take that all you CEO's out there!








Noodles got stuck inside a toy box much like Buzz Lightyear was incarcerated in his own toy box in Toy Story 2 by a fresh out of the box Buzz who was unaware of reality. She found her way out of the box, and made it onto the Heimlich ride in A Bugs Land.
























I rode it too. The ride was actually pretty fun. It was very slow moving, but the various comments from Heimlich (although the voice was different from the movie) were funny and kept the slow ride interesting. It was a great experience, and if you have kids, they would love it.



Although we didn't take any pictures of them, we were impressed by the amount of fruit trees located throughout A Bugs Land. We saw Peach Trees, Plum Trees, Fig, Lime, Apple, Pomegranate, Persimmon, Walnut and Cherry trees. I'm sure there were more, but we had moved on to one of our favorite fruits in various forms:














Grapes! They taste great fresh, and sometimes, even better fermented! We spent a wonderful morning at Disneyland, and returned home with a newly refreshed aura. Ready to begin another week of Website work, sewing and so much more. Thanks for checking in. Until next time, this is Sauce and Noodles saying:

Bye from Disneyland!

Juneteenth was today!

We went down the street to Virginia Avenue Park twice today.

First, we went to the Farmer's Market and picked up some super sweet Nectarines, two of which are already gone, some squash for pasta, asparagus, and a garlic cheese that's REALLY GARLICY. After walking home, we quickly prepared to leave and head out to Toy Story 3 which was quite possibly the best movie in the trilogy.

To calm our bellies down after laughing so hard, we stopped off at Susie Cakes in Manhattan Beach before heading to Ross and the Home Depot for a nice little Saturday.

We came back home to Santa Monica and returned for a second time to the park to get some Soul Food and hear some blues at the Juneteenth celebration. It was nice and relaxing down there. Thank you to everyone from the City of Santa Monica and all of the organizations.

Finished off the day adding some cases and links to the website.

Until Next Time...

Moved to Santa Monica

We have moved out of the Marina and now reside in Historic Santa Monica. Pictures to follow.

Hangin' with baby clams at Manhattan Beach

We had just left Las Vegas, NV
after a 36 hour stay with NO GAMBLING:


















and drove straight to Manhattan Beach, CA. What a beautiful Sunday! The weather was perfect. Noodles and I went down to Manhattan Beach to get some Volleyball practice in before visiting our friends in Torrance. Before any practice started, we decided that we were hungry. We stopped off at one of our all-time favorite joints in Manhattan Beach, Uncle Bills Pancake House, to have a BLT on whole wheat bread with sweet potato fries. MMMM. Noodles got Avocado and a thin layer of Mayo on hers, YUCK! I went dry. I got myself an Arnold Palmer, while noodles stuck with the free water. When we finished our meal, we headed down to the beach to knock the ball around. Before practice, we decided to head into the water where we found the neatest thing: Baby Clams



These little guys are so cool! When you walk in the sand, you feel them under your feet like little pebbles. I hope we didn't crush any of them, but if we did, there were millions more that we didn't crush. Seeing them wriggle through the sand was amazing. When we had our fill of the clams, we finally hit the beach volleyball practice. And Noodles got her serve down! What a great adventure! Now, to prepare for our next huge adventure when Sauce and Noodles travel to South Florida for a week of sand and sun, oh wait that's our life all the time! Nevermind.

The day before Running the L.A. Marathon

I am writing this blog post 24 hours before I will be running the 2010 Los Angeles Marathon. There are 25,000 people who will be running in this "Stadium to the Sea" event. I went yesterday to Dodger Stadium to pick up my race Swag Bag which contained a massive amount of advertisements, but, ther was one superb pice of swag I couldn't help but put on right away. A bad assed Census 2010 headband shown here. There is nothing much more one can say about the classy look that our tax dollars are going to but "WOW". Noodles asked me to take this off when she saw me in it. I think it was the ridiculous amount of women that couldn't stop staring at me or the fact that I wore it in public. Fortunately, Noodles was able to convince me to take it off before that convertible full of supermodels drove by. Otherwise, she may never have seen this face again.
There was also a pretty cool LA Marathon shirt. Here is the whole ensemble of awesomeness:
The Marathon shirt itself is actually a very nice shirt. Very lightweight and comfortable, and with absolutely no advertisement on the back of it, and minimal advertisement on the front. Along with the stellar attire, I was also gifted some powdered barley grass juice, one pack of 3 salonpas patches and, what could likely be the best item of all in my swag bag, a 2.5 ounce bag of cocoa roast almonds. With my epi pen clutched tight, I handed that bag over to Noodles immediately. She said to me: "This is great, I can use it for school" It's good to know that one man's trash is another (wo)man's treasure, because, eating one of those almonds would put me out of tomorrow's L.A. marathon, and then, all of this studmuffin attire would be worthless. Thanks for the free stuff all you companies out there. Let's RUN!