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PAGE 8 hOmE & lIfESTYlE IDAHO SENIOR INDEPENDENT • OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2020
Celebrate Sausage Month with
Idaho-Made Sausages
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CROCKPOT SAUSAGE AND < 3 C Chopped spinach leaves DIRECTIONS
LENTIL SOUP < 1 Medium sweet onion, diced 1. Place all the ingredients, except spinach
< 2 Cloves garlic, minced leaves, in a 6-quart or larger slow cooker,
Serves 6 to 8 < 6 C Chicken or vegetable broth and stir to combine.
Recipe from Kathleen Mulroy < 1 tsp Sea salt 2. Cover and cook on the low setting for
< l/2 tsp Ground black pepper about eight hours or until the lentils are
INGREDIENTS < l/2 tsp Paprika (I prefer smoked but tender. Stir occasionally.
< 2 C Dried lentils any type will do) 3. About an hour before serving, add
< 12 oz Andouille or another type of fully < l/2 tsp Dried oregano spinach and stir well. Add a little salt
cooked chicken or pork sausage, cut < l/2 tsp Dried thyme and adjust other seasonings if desired.
into 1-inch pieces Continue to cook on the Low setting for
another hour or so.
European-style sausages like bratwurst. Veterinary and Food Sciences make the arti-
BY KAThlEEN mulROY Meridian also produces chorizo and summer sanal sausages for Vandal Brand Meats. The
sausages, salami, pepperoni, jerky, beef line includes the Vandal Smoked Sausage,
October is Sausage Month. You can cel- steak, and Canadian bacon. Spices like cori- a cured and fully cooked pork and beef
ebrate by chowing down on some bangers ander, mace, garlic, nutmeg, and white and sausage; bratwurst, beef sticks, franks,
with a local flair. black peppers are often added, to enhance andouille sausage, and more. To sample
mERIDIAN mEAT & SAuSAGE the flavors of the sausages and other meat something more unusual, one may want to
Meridian Meat & Sausage has been in products. try the Shakin’ Bacon Sausage, which is an
the same location in Meridian since the Most of the beef is purchased from Idaho all-pork sausage made with bacon, maple
business was opened in 1959. The physical ranchers, while the pork often comes from flavoring and chipotle peppers. Vandal
plant has grown considerably since then, Nebraska and Wisconsin. Meats also offers other meat products.
however. Meridian Meat & Sausage’s products can All sales help to pay for the cost of live-
Founders Albert and Trudi Schoop be found in numerous grocery stores, as stock, supplies, student labor, and facility
developed a successful business by making well as at their own Treasure Valley store. maintenance.
hand-crafted sausages with techniques For more information, call (208)888-5588, You can visit Vandal Brand Meats on the
learned in their home country of Switzerland. or check out MM&S’s Facebook page. University of Idaho Campus. (To order by
Their son, Rene took over in the 80s, and u.I. VANDAl BRAND mEATS phone, call (208)855-6727.) Some products
now Rene’s son Gavin is on board. Students, faculty, and staff from the are offered at VandalStores in Moscow and
The company still uses many of University of Idaho’s College of Agricultural Boise. For more information, go to www.
Albert’s original recipes, especially for the Life Sciences/Department of Animal, uidaho.edu/cals/vandal-brand-meats/order. ISI
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