In a message dated 4/00 6:21:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bigjim@atlantic.net writes: << http://home.att.net/~g.m.fowler/frame/Sausage1.htm >> I'm here to tell you that "Southwest Sausage" may be the best site of it's kind that I've ever visited. Almost every sausage recipe that I looked up (and it has just about all you could dream up) calls for CHILES in the ingredient list. And it has small call types like blood (black) pudding which I've been dying to make (plus de arbols or serranos.) Listen to Big Jim (bigger than my Jim Campbell?), and visit. Even if you never plan to make stuffed sausage, you'd love to make some patties from this list. Finally, (gasp, think he really means finally?) many recipes call for pork butt at 4 lbs and pork FAT at 2 lbs, or a two to one ratio across the board - imagine, if you're an ancient like me, making sausage WITHOUT the enormous FAT quotient. My gawd, I'm back eating sausage again, out where a friend is a friend, where the ...... Gareth (with a big thanks to almost as big as our Big Jim)