Sausage making class

I attended a sausage-making class from the Institute of Urban Homesteading. It was run by Seth Peterson, who is easy-going and charismatic. It was a hands-on class - we picked fresh herbs from his luscious garden, chopped and mixed them with spices, mixed that into ground beef, worked the meat with our hands until it was very "tacky," fried it, and then ate it. Those were delicious sausage patties/hamburgers without casing. Then we put together a hand-cranked grinder and used it to fill pork casings and fried up the resulting sausage. That was fun but I see myself skipping that step and just making hamburger in the future. Mmmmm.

Now THAT is a stove.

A small yet abundant area of the garden.

Apple tree guild!

So delicious.