Feats of Feasts

***WARNING; This post contains images of raw meat.
If you’re squimish, turn away now.

Did I mention how much I love Southern food? Well, I do…although technically, I have never tasted like real, authentic Southern food (eg; southern fried chicken, collard greens, shrimp and grits, cornbread, anything Cajun or Creole), but just reading about it or the sound of it makes my heart flutter or rather my stomach pumping. So there’s recently one recipe I wanted to try out for the longest time which was biscuits and gravy. Now the biscuits in question are not those cookie types but rather savoury scones. Well, I don’t know how it’s originally done but I treated it like how you would make scones, and they turned out pretty good much to my surprise. I won’t go much into the biscuit gravy thing, you’ll read that in my next post.

So, the point is, I rather like the gravy to be made with some sort of meat and the protein that came to mind was Italian sausages. But rather than purchase actual sausages and then take the meat off the casing, I thought, I might as well make the mix and use it for all sorts of dishes. The last time I purchased some sausages, That amount I paid for only ended up for two dishes and the second dish, I took the meat only and not the sausage casing. Now I’m not bumming out on sausages here…if you prefer to purchase them then by all means go ahead. This is just me.

So, long story short, I basically just need the meat mix and since it doesn’t have to be in sausage form, I might as well make it myself. Practical right? And my theory was a success because from a batch of say this plastic sized-container (below), I managed to whip up at least 4 different dishes and one of them was 18 sausage rolls, mind you! You’ll see the posts eventually as I will link it back here.

The mix I made was a hot Italian sausage and not the sweet, but if you prefer sweet, you can just alter the ingredients to your preference.

So, the first dish I made was spaghetti and meatballs, I suppose you could just do a quick bolognese as well but I was feeling like meatballs that day. That’s the great thing about this mix, let your imagination run wild. I had to alter the ingredients a bit to shape the meatballs but it was no biggie.