Recipe: Turkey Sausage

I'm a big fan of flavored meat (sausage and bacon). I use them to make low-meat meals or meat-free food taste good. Otherwise, a lot of super-cheap dishes like beans, cooked greens, or soups wouldn't get eaten -- at least not with any pleasure. I don't use them as a huge main entree, because they're too expensive. I like to buy the natural sausages from CostCo when I can afford it (I make them earn their place in my shopping budget by chopping them up and using as few as I can get away with in each dish). But for breakfast dishes, I like to make my own cheap sausage.

So here's my turkey sausage recipe. I don't know why I call it that, because it doesn't usually have turkey meat in it, except near Thanksgiving when ground turkey is on clearance.

1 lb. ground pork
1 lb. ground lamb or turkey
1 lb. chopped chicken livers, or more ground pork or turkey
1 teaspoon: ginger, nutmeg, cumin, and black pepper
1/4 teaspoon: cayenne pepper
1 Tablespoon: oregano, basil, thyme, and sage
1 T. salt
1/2 cup: bread crumbs, oat flour, or ground flax seed
3 eggs
1 onion chopped finely

Mix it all together and fry patties in olive oil and/or butter. I like to freeze these and take them out the night before to defrost for breakfast the next morning.