After patiently waiting almost a year since harvesting his moose, I finally got the chance this week to bring my equipment out to Bay Roberts to make moose sausages for Dad.

I picked up some seasoning kits earlier this year at Outdoor Pros including Mild Italian, Wild Game and Honey Garlic, as well as some 19mm sausage casings. I did some taste tests of these kits earlier this year for Dad and Iris, these flavours passed inspection.

We had a little over 50lbs total of meat on hand the moose was already ground last fall. We had a total of 38lbs of Moose and 12lbs of lean ground pork from Costco. Dad had everything thawed before I arrived.

I weighed the meat we planned to use for each of the three batches using a ration of approximately 60:40 moose to pork. Next I weighed out the appropriate amount of seasoning according to the recipe printed on the bag.

To start I added only 3/4 of the amount of seasoning recommended, mixed it thoroughly with the meat and did a taste test. This I've found from previous experience was a less ratio of seasoning to meat, at this point its easy to add more and remix.

By this time a couple of Dad's buddies arrived to lend a hand with the production. Kevin (pictured) and Don were both of great help getting this order of three different flavours complete.

We loaded up my 5lb stainless sausage stuffer, slid on the casings and got to work. I ran the machine while Kevin and Don cut them into links, and Dad bagged and vacuum sealed them in 1lb (approximate) portions.

I didn't get a chance to take a lot of pics throughout the night, some of these pics are from other sausage making episodes to help explain the story. In any case we came out with 56 bags of moose sausages which should keep Dad going on ATV & Snowmobile trip cook-ups for quite awhile. The packages were kept refrigerated for 24 hours to set the flavours then placed in the freezer for storage.

I stayed overnight down at the Bay House in French's Cove. I had been out earlier in the year to help transform this room from a home office back into a bedroom.

Dad had some great help from friends and family to see this project through to completion and it turned out great!

Just a few pics of Iris's walkway which we hope to take up and re-pour with concrete later this fall.

Finally before heading on to my service appointments I gave Dad a hand to replace his defective fish finder/depth sounder in his boat. The wire chase I installed last year made running the new cables a breeze. I also waterproofed the hardware holding a new grab handle and fire extinguisher he installed earlier this year. All in all another awesome outing!

Cheers, MIKE

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