Combine brown sugar and sausage in a large mixing bowl. Add egg and mix well. Sift dry ingredients together and add to sausage mixture alternately with coffee. Stir in vanilla. Add flour-coated raisins and pecans and stir until thoroughly combined. Pour into well-greased tube pan and bake at 350

Mix seasonings into ground meat until well incorporated. Stuff into casings. Sausage should be cooked in boiling water until done, and then smoked or fried or however you want to prepare them.

To make the wontons, brown sausage in skillet, breaking it up into small pieces; drain well. Allow to cool. Mix together sausage, cheese, chili paste, scallions, cilantro and salt and pepper. Brush an egg roll wrapper with beaten egg and place 1/2 ounce of stuffing in center. Fold over corner to

We started at Stubb's BBQ. It's a neat place with a large music venue around back. Shiner Bocks and a variety of meats and we set to business. The best thing I tasted in Texas was some smoked sausage. It was quite unlike anything I've had before and wonderful. The rest of the offerings

I've driven through Eagle Lake many times and seen Austin's BBQ but it had never been open and I had come to the conclusion it had gone out of business since the publication of Robb Walsh's BBQ Legends. But one Saturday last winter as I rolled through town I spied smoke and pulled

Sure, it is. You can walk into Smitty's Market in Lockhart and order sausage to go with your brisket, and they'll throw a link on the butcher paper for you. No problem. But does that really mean you know anything? Vocabulary is key, and barbecue knowledge is barbecue power. It starts with