alisoncc 379 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 My ability to buy decent pork sausages where I live is virtually nil. I can get good ones if I am willing to drive some distance, but don't want to do that everytime I fancy a nice sausage. Pre-minced meat, be it pork, lamb or beef is rubbish - bone scrapings, etc. So I recently bought myself one of these.Tried it out yesterday for the first time using some pork belly as the meat.Partially froze the pork to make it easier to mince, removed the skin and cut it into smallish chunks. Put it through the mincer using the large cutter, then mixed in some onion, sage, thyme, salt, cracked pepper and bread crumbs, and put it through the machine again using the smallest cutter. Too much hassle buying sausage skins, so formed it into sausage shaped lumps and wrapped each lump in clear film, and popped into the freezer.This evening I tried out my home-made sausages for dinner and they were magnificient. I could say that were as good as the real thing, but I reckon they were better. Whilst the machine cost, being able to mince cheaper cuts of meat myself will soon repay the investment. I tend to use a lot of minced meat, for hamburgers, bolognese sauces, etc, and now sausages, and reckon I will recoup the cost of the mincer within a year easy. My home-made sausages tasted like the ones we used to get thirty to forty years ago with real meat, instead of the rubbish they blast off meat bones with high pressure water.As long as you gently unwrap the raw sausage mince that has been frozen, and allow it to completely defrost then it will hold together under a grill until cooked. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
swe62 334 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Heck sausages from tesco are pretty good! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 I used to mince suet and mix it with my sausage meat to make it more moist when we lived in Bathurst. There used to be a butcher who sold meat in bulk, so we got him to throw in a couple of pounds of suet in for free. Suet is the hard fat around the beasts kidneys. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 I'm lucky as we have a good butcher in our village. He makes sausages and burgers which are great, albeit expensive - but because they are so packed full of meat, we don't tend to eat as many in one sitting as with the cheaper Supermarket ones. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 These people do some nice sausages if you are in Newark 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 And their potted meat is delicious Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Just Beer (micro pub) sells their pork pies Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 My hubby was a Butcher in Cinderhill years ago, he was Malc Taylor and had his own sausage recipe..........was delicious....... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Was his recipe "secret" if not how about posting it here?? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 #7 It looks very busy bubblewrap, obviously not happy hour or have they all gone outside for a fag? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 It can be busy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 I was right, they all had been for a smoke. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 The two guys right front are two of the four owners Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 I take it you like real ale Bubblewrap, have you been to Doctors Orders on Mansfield Road, Carrington? If you haven't you should try it, you wouldn't be disappointed. Small drinking area, waiter service, no bar, you can even take your own food in to eat. Several decent guess beers but not cheap. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 No not yet: Trouble with Doctors Orders is they don't open at lunch time except Saturday (Sunday?) I keep meaning to visit when I've been in town on a Saturday liunch time but not managed it ...................................yet Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Was his recipe "secret" if not how about posting it here?? It was all meat, a real treat.......lots of herbs and spices too.... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 "It was all meat, a real treat" - wasn't that a line from a dog meat advert? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blondie 1,392 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Don't know never heard of it............... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 #17 was it Kennomeat? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Angus Dog Food, delivered by a Highland Terrier with a Scottish accent. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,508 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Robbie # 14. That's our local ........ we go in there 2 or 3 times a week, it's a great place and we can take the dog too! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Lizzie, I have only been there a couple of times when we did the Mansfield Road pub crawl. Very friendly mine host gave us a lot of free tasters. I had not realised they stopped trading at lunchtimes. We also enjoyed the New Inn because they had a dart board and pool table. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,508 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Oh no, the New Inn, now renamed The Carrington (I think, but should know really!) isn't very nice. I won't say any more. Doctors Orders has always been a really friendly place. The guys who started it up 2 years ago have sold the business, on 1st December, to the crew who own Magpie Brewery and the format has remained exactly the same, free tasters, no actual bar, waiter/waitress service, no music nor TV Sport (so encouraging people to chat) and mostly friendly customers. We meet and chat to new faces most times we go in there. Often a problem finding somewhere to put yer bum on a Friday and Saturday night though. I often wonder if there are other Nottstalgians sitting there! We should have badges shouldn't we?!!! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Meet ups at DO ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Lizzie, Was it the Carrington's who kept the New Inn years ago when it was owned by Shipstones Brewery? Do you know Rob Arthur, one of the original owners of DO's? I think I just might make it my local....when did you say you go there? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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