Italian Sausage - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 lb. coarse ground (1 time through) lean pork (shoulder)
1 Tbsp. coarse ground fennel
2 crushed bay leaves
1 Tbsp. dried parsley
3 cloves garlic, crushed (and yes you can put in too much garlic)
1/8 to 2 tsp. hot dried red pepper flakes
2 tsp. salt (to taste or diet, 1/3 sodium salt seems to do the trick)
1/2 tsp. fresh ground black pepper
4 Tbsp. water

Preparation

Mix together all ingredients.
Stuff in casing or make patties.