Out For Blood (Sausage)

Blood Sausage

Also known as "black pudding" or "blood pudding", it's an interesting concoction made by cooking blood (usually beef or pork) with filler until it's thick enough to congeal. The fillers may or may not be Primal, ranging anywhere from meat, sweet potato, bread or oatmeal. There are numerous variations, depending on what region it's coming from.

The blood sausage I tried this New Years, and ate for breakfast with eggs this morning, came from Marky's Caviar. It's called Boudin Noir, a French all-natural blood sausage.

According to Marky's site, this particular sausage is "A traditonal South of France blood pudding sausage made of pork blood, onion, duck meat, pork snouts, pork fat, pork tongue, salt, beef bood plasma, cornstarch, sugar, spices, pepper, natural pork casing.

Not 100% Primal, but pretty darn close. I quickly became a huge fan, and it only took one bite. My mother, on the other hand, thought it looked (and sounded) disgusting and wouldn't give it a try. That's ok. More for me!

After heating, the sausage was pretty squishy, so we allowed it to cool some and firm up. When I finally dug in, it was still somewhat soft. The casing is thin and easy to cut, and the insides are delicate. You'll probably want to have a good sharp knife, unless you're like I tend to be- and you just pick it up and eat it. Being that it was New Years Eve dinner, I decided to be more civilized. At home this morning, I was decidedly not so much. The onion flavor is what stands out the most to me. It's not really very salty or sweet, but very savory. It went perfectly with fried eggs this morning. I think I'm going to see if my butcher can make it, or at least provide me with the ingredients I need, and I can experiment with making it myself.

My only minor disappointment is that there was no visible nutrition information on the web site, and I don't have the package to refer to. I'm pretty curious what the macro breakdown is for this stuff. Based on the ingredients, however, I don't think it's anything I have to worry myself over. Purely curiosity.

Over all, five stars in my book. I will be getting this again when I have the chance. Based on my opinion of this product, I'm curious to see what else Marky's has to offer.