> In Diana Kennedy's as well as Rick Bayless' books are a number of > delightful recipes. What's most difficult is finding suitable casings. Seems to me the casing is mostly superfluous; in perhaps all the recipes I've seen using chorizo, the first step is to remove the chorizo from casings then fry until rendered, hence presumably no advantage whatsoever of stuffing into casings versus leaving as bulk sausage. --- Brent