{"id":9631,"date":"2013-08-06T07:29:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T14:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=9631"},"modified":"2013-08-06T07:29:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T14:29:23","slug":"home-cookin-klements-cocktail-sausages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=9631","title":{"rendered":"Home Cookin&#8217; &#8211; Klement&#8217;s Cocktail Sausages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Klement Sausage Company is one of Milwaukee&#8217;s old time favorites, as well as one of my personal picks, when I am in an area where they distribute their great meat products. \u00a0I like most everything they make, and when I lived in distance parts of the country, I&#8217;d reguraly order &#8220;care packages&#8221; from them.<\/p>\n<p>At the market today, their Cocktail Sausages were on sale for nearly half the price of the other brands &#8211; $2.99 as opposed to $4.49 for Hillshire Farms and other manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t tried this brand before, and I&#8217;m kind of a snob about cocktail weenies. Personally, I prefer to heat them to the crispy stage (they are smoked, and thus, pre-cooked), and I have, would, and will eschew them bobbing in barbecue sauce at any social gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Why the elitism about little smokies? \u00a0As with other experiences in my life, the &#8216;tude was passed down genetically, by my mother, who was Hormel loyal, through and through, because she was a native of Austin, Minnesota. \u00a0Hormel Smokies (which used to come in a standard length) where often part of our weekend breakfast fare (that&#8217;s right, we ate breakfast together as a family on weekends, and it was a big production).<\/p>\n<p>So I threw these pups in the skillet, \u00a0<del>set the phaser to stun<\/del>, cooking them til crispy and with streaks of black, and sat down to eat a single serving (for me, the entire 14 oz package).<\/p>\n<p>How were they? \u00a0Good. \u00a0I&#8217;d put them in the regular rotation, especially if they continued at this price. \u00a0I have \u00a0slight preference for the flavor of Hillshire Farms (yes, I broke away from Hormel when I crossed the threshold of the birth family&#8217;s residence for the lats time), though I can&#8217;t say why. As a total layman in the little smokie realm, I would opine that the Hillshire product have a little stronger flavor, which apparently I prefer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Klement Sausage Company is one of Milwaukee&#8217;s old time favorites, as well as one of my personal picks, when I am in an area where they distribute their great meat products. \u00a0I like most everything they make, and when I lived in distance parts of the country, I&#8217;d reguraly order &#8220;care packages&#8221; from them.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=9631\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home Cookin&#8217; &#8211; Klement&#8217;s Cocktail Sausages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,16,26],"tags":[2030,3122,3244,3763],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631"}],"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=9631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/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=9631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}