Gourmet Rubs & Spice Blends

One of the really great things about buying meats from a custom butcher is that many of them will make sausages for you.  If you do have a mixer with a meat grinder/sausage stuffer attachment your butcher can provide you with the right cuts of meat to ensure a wonderful sausage—but how to season it?

Our Italian Sausage Blend is a family secret that landed at Ellis Island along with Chef Nick’s grandmother Carmella.  A mixture of eight herbs and spices presents the traditional fennel taste of almost all sausages from mainland Italy. But our blend also provides a light flavor overlay that is unique to Tuscany.

One jar is intended to flavor five pounds of sausage meat (80% lean pork and 20% pork fats) and using it is no harder than blending it in as the meat is ground.  The sausage is also excellent in its bulk form as a pizza topping or pressed into patties and fried.

Sausages are a staple in almost every cuisine.  With sausages you can start with common inexpensive cuts of meat and a few seasonings and end-up with a true regional delicacy.

Our Slovak Sausage blend (Klobasa) came to the USA when one of our founders, Dr. Martina Barnas, emigrated here from the Slovak Republic.

Martina’s Klobasa combines several of the traditional seasonings of Slovakia with a standard pork sausage meat mix resulting in an exceptional addition to any of the day’s meals.  Whether stuffed into links and smoked or kept as a bulk and formed into patties it is a versatile and kid-friendly sausage with generations of tradition behind it.