How to Make Homemade Summer Sausage - Recipe

[gChart]

I’d be curious to hear of your results of you do try it. Mine is almost always 50/50 venison and pork butt. But sometimes those pork butts are so darn cheap, I’ll likely forgo the venison at some point when I want to do some experimentation.

[Midwest_kc]

gChart said in How to Make Homemade Summer Sausage - Recipe:

I’d be curious to hear of your results of you do try it. Mine is almost always 50/50 venison and pork butt. But sometimes those pork butts are so darn cheap, I’ll likely forgo the venison at some point when I want to do some experimentation.

I’m going to try it this week. I’ll let you know. I think I’m also putting some cheddar in it because I have extra high temp cheddar sotto g around I need to probably use.

[Jonathon]

Midwest_kc I’d say around 90% of the time my summer sausage is always just pork and I always love the taste of it. Probably not what most people would consider traditional but it is tasty!

[Midwest_kc]

So I made up the pork cheddar summer sausage the other day. It was a bit of a s---- show, with my pellet cooker having issues, so I ended up doing them mostly in the oven and then sous vide. It’s good, but certainly not what I would call summer sausage. More of a ham loaf, or something of the sort. I’ll tell ya though, with some more cheese and some crackers? I ate it up!

So, while I didn’t get what I was necessarily after, I’m calling my first crack at cured/smoked sausage a success. I have some wagyu beef brisket trimmings that I’m going to turn into snack sticks next, and I’m going to work on changing my jalapeno cheddar fresh sausage into a cured one.

Thanks to everyone for all the help I’ve received over the last few months as I’ve gotten into this. You guys rock!

[lkrfletcher]

Midwest_kc
practice makes perfect.

[processhead]

I usually have a freezer full of game, so I am generally looking for new ways to use up venison trimmings and game birds. This usually means my sausage recipes are venison/pork or venison beef.

This might be a bit limiting on my part, since I don’t automatically think of recipes using just domestic red meat.

My focus has always been figuring out new way to make wild game meat into something really good and share that with other hunters looking for ways to utilize the harvest.

[lkrfletcher]

processhead - I have put cubed goose breast in with some cubed elk meat into a chili that came out incredibly tender in the slow cooker. Just thought I would mention it.

[processhead]

lkrfletcher said in How to Make Homemade Summer Sausage - Recipe:

processhead - I have put cubed goose breast in with some cubed elk meat into a chili that came out incredibly tender in the slow cooker. Just thought I would mention it.

I have a good friend that shoots a lot of geese and he has figured out how to turn it into pretty good jerky and snack sticks.
Wild goose can be a little challenging. I will have to suggest chili as another use for goose.