What is kolbasz you ask?

Kolbasz is the Hungarian word for sausage, not unlike kielbasa in poland, except way better and has a ton more flavor. My family has been making Hungarian sausage for as long as I can remember and probabaly more generations back that I could even figure out.

It's something I learned from participating in the process ever since I was about 12 years old. My family would get together every winter and make massive batches of smoked Hungarian sausage although my average batch now is 20-30 lbs due to the limited size of my smoke house. People would literally put thier "orders" in a year in advance to get a link or two of our paprika and garlic laden masterpiece. It seriously has a cult following among our friends and family. That gives me a great sense of pride.

You'd be surprised how fast a few hundred lbs. of sausage can vanish. Anyway, I think i'm at the very least, the 5th generation sausage maker in my family. My sons (i have 4) have shown an interest in working the crank on the stuffer and loading the smoke house so it's safe to assume that the tradiditon will live one.

I just finished the last batch of the winter a couple weeks ago (you can only make it when its COLD outside, otherwise the meat will spoil before it has time to cold smoke and cure properly). It's all old school, old world technique and the stuff will last indefinitley (like jerkey) without preservatives, fillers, additives, chemical preservatives or any other stuff you wouldnt wan't to be eating anyway...