Homemade Italian Sausage

Here at home, we made up an Italian Sausage recipe to season the one pound packages that we get we when get a whole (or half) a pig back from the processor. 

After playing around, I came up with a recipe that the whole family enjoyed.

I use it in lots of ways - in casseroles, for sandwiches, in meatballs and spaghetti sauce, on pizza or as patties for sausage  at breakfast.

Simply thaw out one pound of Bear Creek Acres ground pork and add:

      1 teaspoon salt                                  3/4 teaspoon garlic powder

3/4 teaspoon black pepper            1/4  to 1/2 teaspoon ground redpepper

                                1/2 tsp of ground fennel

In fact, I was using it so often I made a batch that was about  X 12 size in my little food processor, mixed it well, and put it in a big jar. By my calculations, about 3 1/2 teaspoons of the mix should be about right for a pound of meat.  Caution, shake the jar before each use. The salt seems to settle to the bottom.