Time to make sausage!



My brother Zac, and his wife Kristen have started a cool family tradition for all of us - making German sausage. It was definitely a traditional thing to know how to make growing up in Endicott, where so many people in town had German heritage. My Mom and Dad used to get together with friends to make sausage in the winter, and we remember helping out a couple times, and definitely remember eating it year round! It's garlicky, peppery, smoked and SO GOOD. Any other kind of sausage to me just isn't the same.

 

 

And yes, it is funny to talk so much about sausage! Imagine making the stuff! It's impossible not to laugh when you're working with meat, and stuffing it....and, you get the picture....lots of immature jokes were flying around all day weekend when we got together at Z & K's in February and made our yummy sausuage. It was great! The Conklins were all there, and the Storments too! Gabe and Jameson drove over from Bellevue, so the kids all got to play while the adults were in the garage hard at work.

 

Thanks Zac & Kristen for getting us all together for such a cool thing! I know it's a lot of work, especially for you guys, but it's so great to get everyone together, not to mention the sausage we get to bring home when we're all done. You're amazing! Lots of memories being made, and we'll continue to make in the years to come. (See, now it's expected, so no getting out of this "tradition" now!) :)

 

Zac getting ready to get started - his "new" old-timey stuffer,
and a bowl of casings. Yum! ;)

Kristen and I, seasoning and mixing the meat!

The Papas! Papa Tom and Papa Jim

Awesome Abby hanging out with the kids

Jameson and Luke sharing a cold one