{"id":9554,"date":"2013-08-02T10:41:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T17:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=9554"},"modified":"2013-08-02T10:41:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T17:41:49","slug":"home-cookin-greenridge-farms-black-jack-sausage-new-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=9554","title":{"rendered":"Home Cookin’ – Greenridge Farm’s Black Jack Sausage (New Product)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spotted these a couple weeks ago, but didn’t pick any up until yesterday. They are a premium sausage, clocking in at about a buck each, and their dark color and a natural casing were the draw for me. \u00a0These are apparently so new that they aren’t described on the manufacturer’s website<\/a>, a suburban Chicago meat processor.<\/p>\n

The ingredients listed on the label are very straight-forward, pork, beef, Monterey Jack cheese, and less than 2% of the usual spices, flavoring and salt; all in a pork casing.<\/p>\n

Now if I would have read the label prior to purchasing, I would have passed, as I am not a fan of sausages with embedded cheese.<\/p>\n

I simmered them in water on the stove top for awhile, and dropped them in a traditional hot dog bun with a squirt of plain yellow mustard. \u00a0The result?<\/p>\n

\"20130802_123325\"<\/a>It’s a nice product. \u00a0Very smokey, old-world flavor, similar to Polish sausage, and the cheese, I think, contributes to the juiciness factor, the flavor of the cheese is not overwhelming at all. \u00a0My previous objection to cheese in sausage is hereby negated.\u00a0It’s a slightly coarse grind, which I prefer, and it’s a great casing with good snap.<\/p>\n

Good job, guys. \u00a0I’ll buy them again.<\/p>\n

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I spotted these a couple weeks ago, but didn’t pick any up until yesterday. They are a premium sausage, clocking in at about a buck each, and their dark color and a natural casing were the draw for me. \u00a0These are apparently so new that they aren’t described on the manufacturer’s website, a suburban Chicago… Continue reading Home Cookin’ – Greenridge Farm’s Black Jack Sausage (New Product)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,26],"tags":[954,1759,3122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}