Sausage

By Uncle Hans

It seems like lots of families have holiday traditions, fun family activities to do together so they don't kill one another while stuffed into one house for hours to days.  Some families make sausage, like Renee's.  It starts with some barley cooking

and cutting up onions.

Renee's family lives all over and so Hannah and I have to stand in as "Honorary Carlsons"

 

.....it messes up the entire kitchen.  You add the barley and onions to the ground pork and ground beef.....

 

......while one Carlson mixes,

the other Carlson can prepare the sausage casing, which is the lining of animal intestines, of course.....

 

  .......Then you load the stuffing machine and load the casing on the outlet.......

 

  .....then the sausage is stuffed into the casing by the machine.  A meal sized sausage is sealed off and tied with store string.......

 

......it is easy to see which of the Carlsons the other Carlsons would be killing if it were not for this merry holiday tradition!!

By Uncle Hans