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Dept. of Justification
Today I went and did the big grocery shopping so as to put right the huge vacuum in our refrigerator/freezer after the couple of days of no power. Nothing like a fresh start I always say! No no – that’s not it. Just that nature abhors a vacuum and there was nothing to eat in the frig.

In an effort to justify having bought the food grinder attachment for my KitchenAid, I made sausage today. Yeah, it was like a gazillion degrees in the kitchen, so I worked fast and kept everything in the frig while not in use. And I cooked all the resulting sausage up right away. Froze some and kept some in the frig to put into sauce tomorrow.

Making sausage isn’t for the squeemish just because you have to work with raw meat, but it’s quite easy otherwise. My recipe came from the newly-arrived Penzeys catalog. Their recipe, which urged the reader to make creative changes called for duck breast. In my shopping adventures today I found a great deal on turkey breast, so that was decided right then and there. Some freshly ground meat, some spices and herbs, a little wine and bam – you have sausage.

Tomorrow sauce and meatballs to replenish the freezer.