I've been wanting to make my own sausage. You know, stuff fresh ground pork into sausage casings. I used actual "hog casings" and made a test batch of three pounds trying three different spice mixtures. The end of one spice blend doesn't totally extrude through the grinder so I had a couple sausages that were half and half of two different kinds. I grilled these for dinner tonight. My mom came over and we were able to try all three kinds. I crumbled a little sharp cheddar cheese over them. They were fantastic. I'll post some recipes when I make a big batch in the next month.

The carrot salad was delicious. I used my new spiral cutter and the carrots were in long strands. The Japanese furikake seasoning is a rice seasoning with seaweed, sesame seeds and other stuff and it gave the carrots a nice sweet complex flavor. Good.

The orzo salad from Monday was even better tonight. This was a delicious meal