It does not take a lot to make me happy
By sheblish
@shebish (775)
Egypt
May 13, 2017 8:19am CST
Having lived in Egypt now for many years I have had to accept that there is a lot of things especially food items that I cannot get here, now most of the time that is not a problem but every now a then I get a craving that I cannot shake, my latest craving has been for British type sausages , I have not been able to get the thought of sausages sizzling on a BBQ out of my mind, now there are sausages here,but they are really not nice,the texture is horrid, anyway I was looking at sausage machines but they are so expensive for a possibly one-off indulgence, that I decided to make like an Egyptian rural housewife ,I cut a plastic bottle in half and placed my natural (yuk) cleaned casings over the pouring end of the bottle, I then put my sausage mix in and forced the mix through the top into the casing, I wont pretend they were the best sausages in the world and they were hard work , but my oh my the sense of achievement at my DIY sausage machine was immeasurable.
Have any of you tried out any DIY gadgets and if so were they successful ?
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13 responses
@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
13 May 17
Where did you come from to live in Egypt sheblis? I am curious.
Yes the British sausages are very nice and so are the Irish sausages, unique.
I miss them a lot.
I could buy them online but the price is crazy.
I made my own Kefir, but did not have to have gadgets to do so.
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
13 May 17
@shebish Thanks for telling me Sheblish. Cornwall is stuck in my memory from my younger days. The cornish pasties of course you can't get anywhere here and the ice cream yum!! I can make them, but not the same. I spent a happy summer in Newquay years ago with my best friend at the time. Yes Kefir is delicious.
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@shebish (775)
• Egypt
13 May 17
Many happy hours spent at Newquay surfing @TiarasOceanView and yes the ice cream is gorgeous,I do occasionally make pasties but as you said they are not the same,I think they need the Cornish air and ingredients.
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@LeaPea2417 (37401)
• Toccoa, Georgia
14 May 17
I have never tried those gadgets.
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@magnumopus (1644)
• Singapore
14 May 17
Were you living before in some other places before you live in Egypt?
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@GardenGerty (161165)
• United States
13 May 17
Nothing comes to mind that I have modified in that way, but I have seasoned up ground meats to be "sausage".Not real often, but I have done it.
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@Letranknight2015 (52149)
• Philippines
15 May 17
I never tried those gadgets as well. I'm actually trying more into eating salad vegetables.
@responsiveme (22926)
• India
14 May 17
for your enterprise...Neccisity they say is the mother of invention.
You just need to patent it there.
Having lived in small places I too did many cooking from sctratch1 person likes this
@peachpurple (13961)
• Malaysia
14 May 17
nope I had not tried my own DIY gadgets at home. I once had a mortar and pestle to pound spices but my mother in law took it away after she moved out. So, now I use the bottom glass bottle to pound spices in a ceramic bowl.
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