salsicce e salami

Well, this morning I was sorting more of the pig meat left from yesterday cuts. I decided not to do more cuts but use the meat from the bones and bits and pieces. I wanted to try to make some sausages and salamis, plus boil all the bones for a broth and try also to make some pancetta and bacon. It did take some time and by 12.00 I finished all after 2.5 hours work.
It was a bit of a first experiment with the sausage filler and did not know how long it would take. This was because I am planning to make lots of salamis and sausages on Sunday.
My lunch was a broth of the boiled bones with bread and pieces of meat left attached to the bones. I will be having broth for the all week, including tonight. better use it.The broth is very light and you can taste the flavour of the meat. I can make a north Sardinia dish which consist in  using layers of bread covered with broth and grated cheese on top. Normally you should use old hard bread as in the past it was a poor dish were people use to put together left over ingredients just not to waste anything.
below some pictures of today work.

The natural case for making salami. it needs to be washed in warm water prior use.

The meat was cut in small pieces. At the back is the fat in cubes as you need 30% of it every KG of meat.

I have divided the meat and fat in two parts. One for the sausages and one for the salami.

The ingredients I have use to be mixed with the meat.pepper and salt / cloves / oregano / garlic/ rosemary  parsley / thyme and sage plus red wine made from the worcesterberries. All the ingredients have to be mixed very well with the meat and fat.

The final product was a big long salami and six chunky sausages. The salami is now hanging to dry and the sausages can be eaten fresh grilled or fried, or you can freeze them for later use.

Three pieces of bacon with salt and pepper mixed together plus a pancetta on the background. The bacon will be in the fridge inside a plastic bag for a week, then it will be hang to dry or smoked.

The bones after been boiled. As you can see there is still a full plate of meat from them. The meat is now very tender and you can make risotto using the broth or add the meat to tomato sauce or add the meat to boiled potato etc etc. The variety of dishes you can make is infinite.