Homemade Breakfast Sausage with Sage

Our pork has been a revelation! It is so darn good! This has been a long time coming, a porky collaboration between my father and I and I guess it makes me a farmer of sorts even though I am not living on the farm full time. After connecting with folks down in the city my parents are making monthly deliveries of our grass-fed beef, lamb and pastured pork. The system works really well and my dad still sells many of our animals wholesale but it is great to connect with the folks who want to buy directly from farmers. So if you are interested in purchasing some of our pork please contact my father and check out availability here. We are planning our next delivery at the end of March and I am going to be selling some meat out of my chest freezer here in Sunnyside, Queens.

We do not have our ground pork made into sausage because it is 1) a lot cheaper and 2) we like the idea of our customers using it for meatloaf, meatballs, dumplings or even making their own breakfast sausage like this easy and delicious preparation:

Homemade Fresh Breakfast Sausage with Sage

Ingredients

• 1 pound of ground pork (I used boar)
• 2 teaspoons of home dried sage
• 1-teaspoon sea salt
• 2 cloves garlic
• ¼ cup shallots (onion would work here too)
• 2 teaspoons dry sherry
• Lots of freshly cracked pepper

Preparation:

1. In a food processor process shallots, garlic and sage until it is minced and almost paste-like.
2. Add shallot and garlic paste to ground pork, add salt, freshly cracked black pepper and 2 teaspoons of sherry.
3. Mix well. You want the pork sausage ingredients to be fully incorporated and take on a smooth texture.
4. Form into patties and fry in lard or olive oil.
   
5. You can make this in advance and keep in the fridge for a day or two to develop flavor or make it the fresh.
6. Also you can add any number of herbs and chili peppers you have on hand to change up the flavors. So simple and wholesome!

Fry the patties until browned. I like to fry mushrooms in the leftover fat. So good!