Sausage week is here! I have some great homemade sausages for you guys this week, but before we start, I wanted to recap some of the past sausage recipes I have made. The first one is making sausage without a sausage stuffer, then there is some homemade sausages that aren't stuffed in casing, then some recipes with store bought sausage.

Apple Fennel Sausage - Without a sausage stuffer!!!

Grilled pizza with herby sausage.

Pasttata with homemade breakfast sausage.

Homemade sausage is perfect on pizza

Green Mac and Cheese

Of course the epic timpano has sausages in it.

My favorite Italian soup.

Cherry sausage grilled pizza. Yum.

Italian sausage dumplings. One of the best meals I have ever

eaten.

Sausage - quinoa stuffed peppers. Somewhat healthy and fantastic.

Also of note, my rival macheesmo made some breakfast sausage this weekend. Looks awesome.

Two of my good friends go to Hooters every sunday at the same time, and I am not invited. Apparently I might mess up the delicate balance they have with the waitresses. See, they think that the waitresses actually LIKE them and want to hang out after work. What the waitresses actually like are the enormous tips they leave at the end of the 3 to 4 hour sessions they have there on the weekly Sunday funday. SERIOUSLY JOHN AND SAL STOP IT! Notice that she canceled your date last week? (oh dip) Maybe I am just jealous though since they won't let me come. If I DID go, what I would get is the fried pickles, cause they rule. Much different from your standard fried pickle, these are breaded, not battered, and cut into chips, not spears. I made them this past Sunday to drown my sorrows while my friends were enjoying themselves at Hooters again.

The other day, my friend Amy emailed me asking for a recipe for some delicious pickles we had eaten at my place in Bermuda a few years back. Hmm, let me just find it in my archives to give you the recipe. Nope! Not there. This was a pre-website recipe. I didn't think i had any more of those left! This isn't really a recipe so much as it is throw a bunch of stuff from your fridge and pantry into a jar and eat something delicious the next day. I like it because you get the flavor of pickleing without the scary botulism of canning and jarring! (someone might yell at me for that one, I'm mostly kidding!)

Hey guys, Battle Skewer is up today on Foodie Fights. It is a fun battle idea, and the contestants made some really cool stuff. Check it out. Also battle Tamarind Brown sugar is available for sign ups today. You guys know how much I love Tamarind. Hopefully one of my readers can sign up and really crush the competition!

A few years back when I worked in the Back Bay area of Boston, my favorite lunch spot was The Otherside Cafe. I would head there weekly to escape the corporate world, enjoying the indie sounds blasting from the stereo, off color art, hipster staff, and unique beer selection. These days I consciously cut back on my meat intake, but back then it was unheard of for me to order a vegetarian item at a restaurant. I got the veggie burrito (a wrap filled with cheese and their vegan chili) on a coworkers suggestion, and totally forgot that it was meatless by the time I was eating it! After that I got it every time I went to Otherside.

Well I stumbled into Otherside this past Friday night with some friends. They ordered the vaguely titled "Nachos", some chips with a generous helping of the vegan chili and some cheddar cheese on top. When they were halfway done eating, I said to them, can you believe there isn't meat in there? "What do you mean? There is ground beef right here" Someone said pointing to the chili. That's when I remembered that I had always wondered what was in the chili that was so beef like! A glance at the menu confirmed that it was bulgur wheat, so I set off to make my own version the next day.

I've been talking about my roommate a lot lately, and no it isn't my parents anymore (my roommates got me a sweet car-bed). I moved in with a friend in a sublet situation for a few months until I get my real place september first. Because it is temporary for me, and it is the last month of her lease, we dont have a very robust pantry. Some nights, when it works out that we both haven't gotten paid in awhile, we have trouble figuring out what to eat! Last night was one such situation. I randomly got a coconut in my daily travels (What? It happens, relax). After looking exaustivly at the stock in our fridge and pantry, and thinking of about 7 different options that didn't quite work, we came to this cous cous that actually came out really tasty! And it was free!

My roomate went blueberry picking last week, and afterwards made a blueberry coffee cake with her harvest. I followed her around with a camera while she made the cake, because I don't do enough baking on this website. It was pretty awesome and we ate it for breakfast all week! Also to note - Macheesmo made a coffee cake with actual coffee IN it this past weekend, so thats worth checking out.

The premise of this started out from an episode of Alex's Day Off where she made some Indian spiced cabbage. I wanted it to be a bit more hearty with more veggies, to step off the side into the center of the plate. When I made the Korean bean paste noodles the other day, I really was loving the smell of the potatoes browning with zucchini and cabbage, so I decided to use that combo again. I served the veggies with a roasted chicken leg (I wanted to grill it but was out of charcoal). This meal was very easy and very cheap. The spice mixture served double in the cabbage and as a base for the chicken rub, and the whole thing coast 9 dollars at Whole Foods (if you have a nice spice collection).

I have been eating Korean food here and there for awhile, but I have only REALLY started getting into it in the past few months. There is a place near my new apartment that serves a dish I have not really seen elsewhere. Forget about bulgogi you guys, this dish is where it's at.

My friend Mark is moving from Manhattan to London in the near future, so a bunch of his friends down in NYC decided to throw him a surprise going away party. I went down for the weekend on the cheap bus to see him off and to cook a UK themed appetizer to help him assimilate to his new setting. Mark wasn't surprised at all, but everyone still had a great time.