A Little Link of Heaven

So tonight's life-shortening goodness comes from DePasquale's Sausage factory via the grill. This is the type of family run business that's way too busy with word-of-mouth traffic to build a website, so that link heads over to Yelp.

My buddy Geoff suggests that their sausage is amazing because it is unpolluted with fennel. By definition that should mean that this is not, in fact, Italian sausage. However, after wandering through the Nonantum section of Newton--where the side streets are painted with spumoni--and walking into an easy to miss store front where there is more Italian than English on the labels, that's a tough argument to make.



I personally lack any strong feelings about fennel, but this is easily the best sausage I have ever had. We've grilled up some of their hot and some of their sweet, and I nobody had any cause to complain.

This does come raw, so precooking is recommended. (5min per side in a microwave, then 10 min on the grill) but I choose to go low and slow grill only for the first round and it was amazing.

The left overs will be joining some eggs tomorrow for breakfast, and check back soon for round two where we cook these up with some onions and peppers and I try a honey-mustard reduction . . . all on the grill