Homemade Hot Italian Sausage - cooking recipe

Ingredients

8 lbs coarsely ground pork (shoulder is best)
1 cup red wine, cold
8 teaspoons salt
4 -5 garlic cloves, minced
1 cup fresh parsley, chopped
1 tablespoon black pepper, fresh ground tellicherry is best
3 teaspoons cayenne
5 tablespoons fennel seeds, toasted on stove top
2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
5 tablespoons hot paprika

Preparation

Be careful with the wine quantity if you resize down. Also, its good with dried herbs, of course, but far better with fresh garlic cloves and parsley. My wife and I were once in a hurry making a pound of it for a quick Saturday lunch with Italian bread slices and red wine and I didn't take a minute to toast the fennel seeds on the stovetop; big difference. Do yourself a favor and spend the extra 2 or 3 minutes there even if you substitute a tablespoon or so of powdered garlic for the cloves and use the ever handy dried parley flakes.