Angry® Mustard on Angry® Sausage

Here it is again, time for our Improv Challenge where cooks are assigned a couple unlikely ingredients and asked to come up with a recipe. September’s selected components are Sausage & Mustard.  I decided that I’d also toss in apples and hard cider, since it’s (supposed to be) Fall. My favorite hard drink, any time of year, is Angry Orchard® Crisp Apple.The mustard needed to be made a couple weeks early. It’s flavor is rather “angry” now – there’s quite a bit of kick to it. Next time I’ll not use that much of the mustard powder…The sausage I thought a little dry. So, next time I will skip the turkey and use all pork! To save time, (and because our final dish needed sausage crumbled) we did not stuff the mixture into casings – but I would highly recommend that for boiling then grilling…Our favorite way to eat sausage is to boil them in beer, toss them on the grill, shove them into a soft & chewy hoagie roll, pile them high with grilled peppers & onions, then slather them with some deli mustard!Unfortunately, when life hands members of the family a low-sodium & gluten-free diet, you have to modify that dream dish…

What I visualized was a nice Bob’s Red Mill^® Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour dough that I could wrap up some sausage & onion/pepper hand pies… Regrettably, said dough didn’t quite get that visualization and consequently did not cooperate in the desired manner.

I did manage, however, to spread the stupid uncooperative offending @$#%*&^ tacky dough across a sheet of parchment to create a sausage and onion & pepper flat bread. I put down a little mustard before sprinkling on the other ingredients.Oh wow! That turned out better than I’d hoped!And then, of course, served the Angy Mustard along side…

Here are the links to the SAUSAGE & MUSTARD dishes my friends created:

An InLinkz Link-up

Things I'm loving...

So, evidently when one skips a week or two of this exercise in gratitude, one has an over-abundance of lovings to list:

• like appreciation for the wonderhubs turning another year older...

• or happiness for a quiet weekend because the man & his boys were gone camping...

• maybe it's gratefulness because my friend Hunter is slowly recovering from his extensive surgery...
• mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm -- tastiness from a new batch of home-ground mustard that turned out quite well...

• ahhhhhhhhh -- satisfaction of a soon-to-be complete baby quilt...

• could be pride in the oldest son making noticeable (by his coaches, even) gains in football abilities...

• probably thankfulness for the new schools my younger sons are attending (& where they are flourishing...)

1st day of school -- Auggie wants to go, too...

• and I'm marveling at the ingenuity of a boy trying to stay cool in the pool...

Paisley Jade says,"I wholeheartedly believe that no matter what is happening in your life, there is always something that you can be thankful for... no matter how simple it is." so I'm linking this post up to hers.

mmmmmmmaking mmmmmmmustard

Cranberry Mustard, to be exact. Found a recipe & thought I'd try it out for Father's Day gifts.

I went to Sprouts (because they had bulk foods on sale...) and bought some

 I put them in my jar with

 and

 Mixed them all up

They soaked for a couple days and looked like

 Tossed it in the chopper with a little salt & honey

 Had to try it on some ham

 It worked!

 Bottled that baby up & gave it away










Now I'm going to link up to

Things I'm Loving

Again I'm "copy-catting" Paisley Jade, because she so rightly says,  "I wholeheartedly believe that no matter what is happening in your life, there is always something that you can be thankful for... no matter how simple it is."

So -- here are a couple snapshots of my week:

I ♥ it when I can see some Easter treasure from the past... 

I ♥ it when my husband says he prefers my ground mustard over the name brand. 


I ♥ it when my decor starts being cohesive...

I ♥ it when a friend gives me a box of wooden spools she doesn't want!

I ♥ it when boys make good breakfast choices on their own.

(He's got raw sunflower seeds, almond slivers, & rolled oats along with his milk & Craisins...)



I'll be linking to