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Sausage

Sr.vienes - 11-10-2017 at 03:19 PM

I’m sure somewhere in Baja you can buy regular Gringo style breakfast sausage, I have just never found it. We have always taken ours down with us but it seems they are getting a little more fussy about food items nowadays. We do a lot of our own meat processing here in Arizona so last trip down we took down our favorite seasoning for pork sausage “Old Plantaion” from L&M and thought maybe I could find somebody to grind some pork. We stopped to shop at the Soriano’s just South of La Paz and lo and behold they had ground pork in the meat case, slapped it all on the counter hand mixed it and we had 10 pounds ready to use.
Not quite as good as Les and Blancas homemade Polish sausage but still pretty good.

Paco Facullo - 11-10-2017 at 03:31 PM

SAUSAGE ,, UMMMMmmmmmmmmmmm.....

Please make mine with plenty of sage, patty style...

Although I'm SURE I'd love your's just fine .....
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pacsur - 11-10-2017 at 04:07 PM

Costco in Cabo has small frozen American style breakfast sausages in a bag.
Anybody know of an Italian sausage source in Los Cabos?

BajaBlanca - 11-10-2017 at 06:18 PM

Thanks for the nice words regarding Les's sausages....he is getting ready to retire the breakfast part of the B&B in 2018 and stick with a hotel only.

He will continue making the sausages however. He does both Polish and English Bangers. If you come and visit, I bet he would pull them out!

pacsur's question is a good one - a great I-talian sausage is ohhh sooo good. In little Italy in San Diego, you can watch them putting the sausage into skins.


TMW - 11-10-2017 at 06:44 PM

Funny thing about sausage. At the hotel El Cortez in San Felipe whenever I ordered sausage for breakfast they served me a hot dog. It happened more than once and I use to do it just to get a laugh from my friends. It's been a couple of years so they may have changed.

David K - 11-10-2017 at 07:18 PM

Quote: Originally posted by TMW  
Funny thing about sausage. At the hotel El Cortez in San Felipe whenever I ordered sausage for breakfast they served me a hot dog. It happened more than once and I use to do it just to get a laugh from my friends. It's been a couple of years so they may have changed.

In 1977 my friends and I went into San Felipe for breakfast, ordered sausage and eggs, and it was hot dog franks! Big laugh for Mexican breakfast sausage.

rts551 - 11-10-2017 at 07:47 PM

Thats because in Mexico a hotdog is a sausage. Gotta quit thinking like a Greengo.

Russ - 11-10-2017 at 08:01 PM

Saul's Market in Mulege. He makes both Italian and breakfast sausage himself and it's pretty damn good.


[Edited on 11-11-2017 by Russ]

Sr.vienes - 11-10-2017 at 08:03 PM

Sausage Maker .com has everything you need to make Italian sausage including the casings which need to be refrigerated after opening but last for months. We usually buy a spice mix and add extra of what we like, yes more sage and crushed red peppers. They have several varieties of Italian.

AKgringo - 11-10-2017 at 08:28 PM

I used to make a lot of sausage after hunting season in Alaska. In addition to the usual linked product, I would buy bologna sized casings from a local butcher supply house.

Lean wild game was blended with beef and/or pork fat, and I would add soy protein as well. That allowed me to reduce the fat content and still have a moist, smooth texture, even through the smoking process.

mtnpop - 11-10-2017 at 10:22 PM

not much help but Saul's grocery in Mulege has breakfast and Italian sausage in the cooler made for him by a local butcher, not all the time so it's a treat when we find it... and well made.....

I thought I had also seen some at either Sam's club or Mega Mart in LaPaz... been awhile since there and the memory fades...
Don't remember if we checked Chedreaui in LaPaz....

thebajarunner - 11-10-2017 at 10:31 PM

Breakfast special in a loncheria in
"Wini con huevo"

bajabuddha - 11-10-2017 at 11:20 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Russ  
Saul's Market in Mulege. He makes both Italian and breakfast sausage himself and it's pretty damn good.
edit: Below mtnpop says Saul has it made by a local guy. I thought he made it himself. I have been wrong before. Sorry for erroneous info.

[Edited on 11-11-2017 by Russ]

I have personally seen Saul making his own sausage, both Italian and breakfast. His herbs are grown in his little garden along the walkway by his store.

THERE IS NONE BETTER. Tubs in the cooler in the back-right of the store. At least, used to be. Wunnerful.

Russ - 11-11-2017 at 07:43 AM

I had another reader inform met that indeed he does make the sausage himself and he is due to make another batch of the Italian sausage soon. Thanks for the correction.

[Edited on 11-11-2017 by Russ]

55steve - 11-11-2017 at 07:48 AM

Quote: Originally posted by BajaBlanca  


He will continue making the sausages however. He does both Polish and English Bangers. If you come and visit, I bet he would pull them out!


Les pulled his sausage out a couple times during my visit...

mtnpop - 11-11-2017 at 08:03 AM

Quote: Originally posted by bajabuddha  
Quote: Originally posted by Russ  
Saul's Market in Mulege. He makes both Italian and breakfast sausage himself and it's pretty damn good.
edit: Below mtnpop says Saul has it made by a local guy. I thought he made it himself. I have been wrong before. Sorry for erroneous info.

[Edited on 11-11-2017 by Russ]

I have personally seen Saul making his own sausage, both Italian and breakfast. His herbs are grown in his little garden along the walkway by his store.

THERE IS NONE BETTER. Tubs in the cooler in the back-right of the store. At least, used to be. Wunnerful.



Could be he does it himself, we were always told that it was made across the street at a butcher shop. Doesn't matter either way as it is really good when it's available...

bajalinda - 11-11-2017 at 08:13 AM

In La Paz, Walmart used to carry the small, link-style breakfast sausage (Farmer John's ? brand or similar name), but I haven't seen it there in months.

There are 2 vendors at the Tuesday and Saturday farmers market who sell their home-made sausage.

As for the Mega in La Paz, it is no more - it has become a Soriana.

[Edited on 11-11-2017 by bajalinda]

Sr.vienes - 11-11-2017 at 08:26 AM

When we make the pork breakfast sausage we put it in a large zip lock roll it out flat about 1/2” thick, then we use the edge of something thin but not sharp to put square score marks in it. We freeze it and when ready to use it we break off how much you need, kinda like Wendys. No mess and the rest goes back in the freezer, why make it round when it’s going to end up flat?

David K - 11-11-2017 at 08:32 AM

Quote: Originally posted by rts551  
Thats because in Mexico a hotdog is a sausage. Gotta quit thinking like a Greengo.


It was breakfast dish, in English, and they also had chorizo (Mexican sausage) and eggs. This was 1977 so give them a pass. There is the word 'wini' now used, but there are Hot Dogs with bacon sold, so the word Hot Dog is used and not sausage at the stands. Anyway it was a funny moment 40 years ago I thought I would share.

BajaBlanca - 11-11-2017 at 08:44 AM

55Steve :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:


Also, if you have every had breakfast at the yurts - Ignacio Springs Inn - their breakfast includes sausages and wow! They are super good.

Paco Facullo - 11-11-2017 at 08:57 AM

If'n any of you out there get to the Costco in Mexicalli pick up some beef sausages con ajo ( in the deli section ) . They was outstanding !

I checked here at my local Costco and they didn't carry it.

But that's the way Costco works, different areas have different products.

surfhat - 11-11-2017 at 10:27 AM

Food memories last a lifetime.

My first winter trip to Pescadero around '75, we arrived in the evening after dark and found a small restaurant still open out on the highway in Pescadero. I ordered the fish tacos and got canned sardines.

As much of a Baja rookie as I was at that time, that still stands out as singular experience in culinary offerings. I have to assume that any fresh fish they may have had, had been sold out before we got there.

There was little choice of establishments back then to choose from. We were happy someplace was still open that we could sit down and have a beer or two or three after being on the road all day. Heck, I still like canned sardines once in a while.

Happy Veterans Day to all of those who chose and choose to serve our nation.


tiotomasbcs - 11-11-2017 at 01:17 PM

Same funny thot, Steve. Whip out your sausage Les, if you got it! Too funny Blanca; lost in the translation! Smiles. ;);) Tio

pacificobob - 11-13-2017 at 08:00 AM

que rico in todos santos has a number of locally made artisanal sausages

Russ - 11-24-2017 at 12:15 PM

A friend brought me some sausage from Saul's the other day. The Italian isn't as spicy as earlier batches but it's okay. The breakfast sausage is pretty bland and could use a little smoke or other seasonings. I like the fat content he's used though. Fresh sausage patties are always a treat.


Quote: Originally posted by Russ  
I had another reader inform met that indeed he does make the sausage himself and he is due to make another batch of the Italian sausage soon. Thanks for the correction.


bajabuddha - 11-24-2017 at 05:58 PM

Saul Davis is a Baja icon. His Italian sausage makes the bestest s'getti sauce in the world. Far's ''milder'' is concerned, that's what a li'l ''doctoring'' is for. Bless Saul Davis and his spice garden; I miss him dearly, and his family-run business.

I was raised in small grocery and have had many conversations with Saul over the ''smells'' of his back-room storage, and how many memories of my past it involved.... started at 12 y.o. and 25 cents an hour as a ''bottle boy'' sorting deposit pop and beer bottles, and burning cardboard. Every time i'd put a 'deposito' case of Pacifico on the stack in the pass-way i'd think about all the stacks of empties i'd handled as a kid. Love the store, love the owner, love the family. Yesterday was Thanksgiving; I'm thankful for Saul Davis.