I married a Polak, and she knows sausage! she was kind enough to give me an early Christmas present. she bought me an 11 lb sausage stuffer. with the request that I make her sausage. in southern Illinois, we do not have the kind of delis they have in Chicago. she is used to running down the street to a Polish deli with 50 different kinds of fresh or smoked sausage. so, I made a batch of deer and pork kielbasa for Christmas.

a small 10 lb test batch. pork, deer, salt, black pepper, garlic, marjoram, and cure #1.


linked it up, and resting in the fridge overnight. I'll throw in the smoker in the morning.

nice I like a good Kielbasa

what brand of stuffer , how do you like it ?

11 pound weston stuffer. and it sure beats the heck out of using a grinder to stuff casings

Looks Really Good!

Must be that time of year. Few days back I did 12 pounds of smoked breakfast sausage.........also as a request......from my daughter.

Now it's on to some sweet Italian and smoked polish. I hope my polish turns out that well. Curious how you went from the big coil to tied off links. No surplus casing to tie string to.

Looks great.

For the sake of harmony in your marriage I am going to explain to you the difference between a Polock and a pollack. A Polock is a person of polish descent, a pollack is this.




I'm going to assume you married the former rather than the latter.

LOL @ Bernie
Kielbasa is one of my favorite foods. That looks great.

lol talk to text doesn't get my southern accent.

Hahaha

There's other jokes there...but I'll refrain

Very nice

Looks good

in the smoker for an hour to dry at 120* or so, then it's time to pile in the smoke!

Yes, using the grinder to stuff flat wears me out... definitely worth having another dish to clean and using a stuffer. The sausages look delicious!

Off the smoker, shocked in cold water, and resting.

I'm torn as to which is central Europe's greatest gift to man. Beer or sausage?

Maybe you just can't have one without the other?

Maybe you just can't have one without the other?

Bingo warrior,..you can't!,.. :

I'm not complaining about the sausage or the beer or the mustard. it's all good. and what can I say, those European women are pretty fine themselves

That they are pintail,..you have won on all fronts!

my wife is on the phone with her folks, speaking polish, and it seems like every 2 minutes the word kielbasa gets dropped. she was so excited that this batch was a success, and very similar to what she grew up with, she made me a batch of Kolaczki (cookies).