Beef Sausage for Supper Ideas...

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I'll brown some nice 8 inch links from a meat market in Lake Placid on the grill later then set aside to use in a meal sometime this week. I'm sure they would be great on a bun, prepped with onions and peppers over linguine or make a fine casserole. I thought of mixing with a shrimp and corn boil but one here doesn't like shrimp (?).


Anyone have a simple, yet tasty recipe idea?
I'm thinking red beans and rice with the holy trinity of onions, celery and peppers but am open to any suggestions. I'm very good with a grill but my kitchen productions, while very edible are lacking in the looks department.
 
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I grill or pan fry them with onion, red and green pepper, crimini mushrooms, and the florets of broccoli I. I put all that in a good French bread that Inhave sculpted out much of the inside. Add a little hot sauce, and then I pig out. Or should I say I beef out.
 
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I do a one-pot meal where I slice some onion into the bottom of a Dutch oven (enough to cover the bottom of the oven), then add a layer of skinless sliced chicken breasts, add the sausage (either sliced or crumbled) and mix with chicken, add a layer of thinly sliced potatoes (I usually leave the skins on), add a layer of sliced mushrooms. Season contents with Lawry's seasoning salt and then pour about a half bottle honey-mustard dressing/marinade over the contents.

(Repeat the preceding steps if you still have room in your Dutch oven...just keep layering) Then pour remainder of dressing over the contents.

Cook it for about 50 minutes to an hour over medium-high coals or in a 350 degree oven.

I cooked this dish for my brother years ago when we were packing into the mountains with the horses and mules. Ever since, he's referred to it as "Pack Station Chicken."
 
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I usually just do gumbo with sausage. These days I do more chicken sausage than beef or pork. We have a place down south of us near El Campo that does a really good chicken fajita sausage. Onions, cheese and bell pepper pieces mixed in with the chicken. Really good stuff.
 
when in winter and we're not outside grilling, the wife will cut up sausage and mix with corn, zucchini, shrimp, cut up potatoes, etc; mix in a bowl with some olive oil, and bake on a cookie sheet.

Nice thing about that way is one can separate what they like/dont like. And it turns out quite tasty, sort of like a shrimp boil without the boil.

;)
 
Meat market or semi custom made link beef sausage can be as good as pork so long as the amount of fat in the mix is enough to keep it from being too dry and tasting like Latigo. Gumbo is a great use. Justin Wilson had a little known recipe for a sliced link sausage, thinly sliced potato's, onion, garlic, lots of dry white wine (cheap Chardonnay works really well) and Worcestershire sauce all cooked on the stove top in a dutch oven. Wonderful don't even begin to describe this dish. Serve with or without rabbit food (salad) but always with garlic bread. hardcase60
 
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Real simple is broil in oven, pinto beans and cornbread. Another I like is Zatarain's Jambalaya mix , brown sausage in the skillet with butter or little vegetable oil. Add the mix , warm water cover and simmer
 
I prefer to make the sausages on the outside charcoal grill. I just took two leftover Italian sausages from the day before...sliced them thinly and placed on a frozen cheese pizza....delicious!

spricks
 
A comfort meal around here is sweet Italian Sausage....... cook covered on med heat with a little water for 10 minutes.... flip cook 2 more minutes let any water evaporate...... cut the links about half way through and spread....... pack the cuts with a mix of diced ( I use canned) tomatoes , onions and peppers..... add remainder of mix/including tomato juice to the pan cover and cook for 8 more minutes.

Serve with mac & cheese and steamed broccoli

Leftover Sausage and tomato/onions ( I always cook a couple extra links/unsplit) can be added to the sauce for "Pasta Thursday"; a tradition since the boys were little. I usually slice the sausage into rounds........


Or.... add some cooked shrimp and add to some red beans and rice.

Beef sausage...... bake with a can of "Bushes" baked beans ..... about an hour at 325......... microwave a container of "Bob Even's" Original mashed potatoes ..... for a quick and easy English Pub Meal of......... "Banger, Beans and Mash"
 
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Slice about a quarter inch thick, brown in a pan with olive oil and mix them into a risotto with maybe some celery or mushrooms. Add a little if you haven't got Italian sausage. Deglaze the pan and stir the liquid into the rice.
 
Take a muffin pan, your favorite premade layer biscuit roll. grease your muffin tin, and press in a half of a biscuit to make a cup. Mix your sausage with really whatever. You will want some kind of binder, be it a sauce, or cheese. So mix it with peppers, and cheese, or a little olive oil, cheese and cilantro, or with rice and a little tomato sauce, whatever. Spoon into cups and cook to biscuit directions. Kids love the little 'meat pies'.
 
Sausage n peppers/onions precooked. No sauce, on grinders with Italian cheeses rolled up in alumimum foil baked till the cheese melts. Real italian sausage n peppers uses no sauce. Each area in Italy does food different.
 
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Too late, that's great. She was finishing off my grill browned beef sausage in a pan of onions when I got home. She was called into work so I finished them off and will eat it on some Cuban bread before I go back to work at midnight.


Shouldn't bust my belly too much.
Thanks for the tips... need to visit Hartzell's in downtown Lake Placid, FL again soon.
 
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