Sweet Italian Sausage

Makes 12 Patties

Ingredients
1 Pound Ground Pork
1 Tb Fennel Seeds
2 Tb Red Wine Vinegar
2/3 Tb Dried Basil
1 Ts Black Pepper
1 Ts Honey
1 Ts Brown Sugar
1 Ts Red Pepper Powder
1/2 Ts Salt
2 Garlic Cloves (Crushed)

Directions
Mix ingredients together by hand in a mixing bowl.  Make sure that all of the spices are spread evenly throughout the sausage mixture.

Once the meat has been mixed with the spices, cover the mixing bowl with plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator and allow it to sit over night. 

After the sausage meat has rested over night, remove it from the refrigerator and separate it into 12 pieces.  By hand, flatten each sausage into a patty.

Lastly, in a lightly oiled skillet on high cook the sausages.  I would suggest cooking no more than 3 at a time.  As the sausages are cooking, give them a flip when they become brown on one side. 

At this point, you can opt to finish your sausages in a pot of simmering tomato sauce (see the meatball recipe) or you can cook them through on the skillet.  Either way, the sausages are ready to eat when they are no longer pink in the middle.