Spending much of today making javelina sausage. I am mixing it with pork shoulder roast to extend the meat and add a little fat. I add roughly 1 pound of pork to 3 lbs of javelina. And I was messing around with a new recipe today. I had some jamaican jerk seasoning that smelled like it would be really good with javelina sausage, so I mixed up about 4 TB of that plus salt and some brown sugar and some wine. Ground it all up and cooked up a test patty. Very tastey!
I am also making some sweet italian fennel sausage from a recipe Bill Deshaw gave me. We use it in spaghetti sauce and it's quite yummy.
Anyway, here are some pics of the process.
the javelina meat looks perfect:
grinding it up (yeah, I know, I need a bigger kitchen!)
frying up a test patty