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Snack Sticks Are Snack-A-Lackin’ Good at Northern Meats!

Published by dharold on May 23rd, 2013

Today Smokehouse Glenn brought in two flavors of his snack sticks – both of which a simply delicious. One flavor was his regular snack stick recipes however Glenn just thought of adding cheddar cheese to so – voila! You have Cheese Snack Sticks and both Glenn and I appreciate practically everything with cheese – so his already delicious sticks taste even better! The Mesquite snack sticks with smoked Mesquite flavoring had a distinct flavor and delicious taste.

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Northern Meats is getting ready for the Memorial Day weekend by providing his Regular brats, Jalapeno & Pepper Jack brats and the Mushroom & Swiss brats and Glenn will provide those meat flavors in patty form for grilling. These three flavors will be sale priced at $2.99 per pound.

Glenn also has received customer interest in making their own brats, so Glenn is carrying cherry, hickory and mesquite saw dust for smoking, he has cure and sheep and hog casing for brat making.

Smokehouse Glenn wishes all his customers a safe and enjoyable Memorial Day weekend. If you need anything for grilling or holiday cooking; stop in and get your goodies from Glenn.Northern Meats will be opened 10 – 4 on Memorial Day!!cheese sticks close up

Snack Sticks and Holiday Grilling

 

 

 

 

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The Brat List Keeps On Growing!

Published by dharold on May 8th, 2013

 

Northern Meats’ last Sample Saturday had Smokehouse Glenn polling his customers for new brat recipe suggestions. After reviewing many good ideas, this brat was the one that gained Glenn’s attention – so, here we have the winning suggestion – Chicken Bacon Ranch Brats for the sampling today.

 

Smokehouse Glenn's new brats flavor!

Smokehouse Glenn’s new brats flavor!

 

This tasty recipe consists of 100% lean chicken meat, minced bits of Northern Meats own bacon, ranch seasoning plus Glenn’s own mixture of spices that he uses for all his brat recipes. Oh, man – are these brats delicious! Moist as always with all of Glenn’s brats with tender chicken. I couldn’t specifically distinguish the ranch seasoning however this recipe is great tasting!

Sample Saturday's latest brat recipe!

Sample Saturday’s latest brat recipe!

 

This newest flavor joins Glenn’s other customer favorites – Mushroom & Swiss, Mac & Cheese and his Tailgate brats. Smokehouse Glenn has received so many requests for various brat recipes that he may have to TEMPORARILY retire several because his brat list is getting lengthy.

 

 

Another new recipe to emerge from the Northern Meats test kitchen – Sun dried Tomato & Basil Marinaded Chicken breasts. Mmmm Good! Smokehouse Glenn is always at work bringing you quality beef, pork and chicken meal entrees for your eating enjoyment.

 

Nothing beats Glenn's tasty brats from the grill!

Nothing beats Glenn’s tasty brats from the grill!

 

Stop in and browse the selection of tasty meat; items available at Northern Meats and remember – if you don’t see something you had in mind, ASK Glenn! Chances are he has what you want in the store!

Chicken Bacon Ranch Brats

 

 

 

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Another Test Kitchen Item – Mac & Cheese Brats????

Published by dharold on April 24th, 2013

If he can case it in sausage casing; Smokehouse Glenn can get it done! I have never heard of all the various flavors of brats coming out of Northern Meats in Ishpeming, but it’s happenin’!

Hey Kids, get your Mom to buy these for dinner!

Hey Kids, get your Mom to buy these for dinner!

The latest test kitchen flavor to invade the world of brats are Mac& Cheese Brats! Young kids of the area unite and give out a shout! Mac & Cheese has taken on a new form but the taste is still there.

Did you ever think you would taste such a thing!

Did you ever think you would taste such a thing!

Glenn uses, as always the best in sausage for these brats but has added macaroni and cheddar cheese to his mix. As you can see from the close up, the macaroni is there along with the cheese but Glenn needs to change his preparation stage a little. Before mixing together a the necessary ingredients, Glenn separately added sausage, cheese and mac in his giant mixing bowl. The one change to this recipe next time will be that he needs to mix the mac and cheese together first before adding it to the sausage mix so the mac will have the cheesey orange color AND flavor! Purely esthetics, mind you but without the mac being mixed properly with the cheesey cheddar, it won’t look like Mac & Cheese and neighborhood kids won’t believe it’s Mac & Cheese if it doesn’t look like Mac & Cheese.

 

Next Time the Mac will be orange-colored from the cheese!

Next Time the Mac will be orange-colored from the cheese!

Stop in to Northern Meats this Saturday from 10 -6 for Sample Saturday! Smokehouse Glenn will be featuring BRATS this Saturday with grills outside weather permitting of not!! Sample brats and a variety of seasonings from Spicy Jo’s this Saturday!

Mac & Cheese Brats_Sample Saturday

 

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Lamb Fest With Chops & Ribs!

Published by dharold on April 17th, 2013

 Leg of lamb has always been the family meat of choice during Easter time at our home and I really love it!

 

Glenn recently received a shipment of lamb rack of ribs in so he decided to cut up some chops out of them and also some loin chops. Northern Meats also carries boneless leg of lamb, lamb shanks and lamb stew meat. Glenn is always helpful to provide cooking tips for all your lamb purchases and his neighbor, Spicy Jo, has all the necessary seasonings for creating the finest tasting lamb meals.

Smokehouse Glenn Country Village

Rib chops cut right off a top quality rack!

 

Mmm, do these look really good!

Mmm, do these look really good!

 

Traditionally, lamb is a holiday celebration meat for either Christmas of Easter but just look at those lamb chops! They are slightly smaller than pork chops but the flavor of properly seasoned and cooked lamb! Mmmm, I want to get those and cook ‘em up right now!!!

 

Norhtern Meats, Smokehouse Glenn, lamb chops

Makes your mouth water!

 

Stop on in to Northern Meats in the Country Village in Ishpeming and ask Smokehouse Glenn about this top quality lamb that you see hear or ask about any other meat product you might have in mind…like this rack of lamb!!!

 

Season this and drop it on the grill or in the oven!

Season this and drop it on the grill or in the oven!

 

Northern Meats’ next Sample Saturday will be April 27th featuring a close look and taste of Glenn’s available brats flavors. If the weather is warm enough, he will probably be grilling out in the parking lot! Mark it on your calendar and stop by to Smokehouse Glenn’s Sample Saturday!

 

Lamb chops and ribs

 

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Pasty Sausage – UPer Test Kitchen Item!

Published by dharold on April 3rd, 2013

Northern Meat’s test kitchen was working again on another customer suggestion recently when someone ask Smokehouse Glenn, “hey, could you make a pasty sausage?”

New Test Kitchen Item

New Test Kitchen Item

 

Northern Meats, Smokehouse Glenn

Northern Meats, Smokehouse Glenn

Incorporating all the basic ingredients for the traditional pasty – potatoes, carrots, rutabagas, onion with pork sausage, Smokehouse Glenn was able to place all this with a sausage casing and – voila!

 

Glenn is always willing to experiment with any suggestions for items to create. Stop in and sample some of his quality products and check out the wide selection of spices, marinades, olive oils and more that are carried by Glenn’s “Flavor Neighbor” Spicy Jo’s!

Olive oils & Marinades

Olive oils & Marinades

Pasty Sausage

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Delicious Hams For Easter From Northern Meats

Published by dharold on March 27th, 2013

Easter is a holiday for family celebrating together around a delicious dinner which traditionally features ham! There is only one place to get the BEST tasting ham – that’s from Smokehouse Glenn at Northern Meats.

 

With over 30 years working for Dearborn Sausage, Dearborn produces the best hams which Glenn can personally prepare for you by either spiral slicing and glazing or the classic trim ham.

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Northern Meats is the local butcher shop that can custom spiral slice your ham. Spiral slicing will thinly slice the entire loin length of the ham down to the bone. The ham is then glazed with a honey and sugar combination that adds to the smoky good taste of this wonderful product.classic trim_2

 

Classic Trim ham has the skin and fat removed, it is fully cooked just like the spiral sliced ham and is ready to be warmed for the meal it is planned to be used for. Glenn is very helpful with his customers to offer cooking advice and also provides cooking instructions to maximize your meal enjoyment.

 

If you wish to view the slicing and glazing procedures, visit this article.

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Sample Saturday Was Hamming It Up at Northern Meats

Published by dharold on March 25th, 2013

Northern Meat’s third Sample Saturday featured Hams from Dearborn Sausage and Smokehouse Glenn was demonstrating how he can spiral slice and glaze a delicious ham from Easter holiday dinner. Northern Meats is the only custom cut butcher shop in the area that can spiral slice and glaze a Dearborn ham for you.

SMokehouse Glenn offers delicious Dearborn hams!

Deliciously glazed hams for Easter dinner ready for you!

The Custom Cut Butcher at Work!

Smokehouse Glenn handing out Dearborn ham samples.

I had a Dearborn ham for last Christmas and these hams taste delicious! Dearborn Hams are  not  water-added hams meaning that you are paying for a true weight in meat and not extra water. Water adding can also increase the salt content of the ham, which is never desirable.

Glenn was selling several hams this weekend and I had the chance to watch both his slicing and glazing procedures.

Here is Glenn using his spiral slicer on a Dearborn ham:

Now comes the glazing process to finalize that great Dearborn flavor:

 

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Smoked Polish Sausage – Traditional Taste Sensation!

Published by dharold on March 20th, 2013

One of the first items that Smokehouse Glenn brought to the office for us to sample was his Polish Sausage. We revisited this delicious item today and it tastes outstanding as it did previously. Polish sausage was a part of our dinner rotation growing up because of my Mom’s polish background. Boy, does this bring back childhood memories – delicious dinners made by Mom with delicious Polish sausage, Mmmmm!

Smokehouse Glenn's personal sausage recipe taste great!

Smokehouse Glenn’s personal sausage recipe taste great!

 

Smokehouse Glenn's fabulous tasting Sausage

Smokehouse Glenn’s fabulous tasting Sausage

As Glenn explained to me, the recipe for Polish sausage is one of the simplest for seasoning – salt, pepper, garlic & Marjoram; the Polish keep the flavoring simple and oh, so good tasting! To personalize his particular recipe, Glenn sprinkles a very small pinch of chili pepper flakes for an occasional spark of heat to tease the taste buds! If you have never tasted Polish sausage, you owe yourself a favor to get some of this smoked savory goodness from Northern Meats!

 

Saturday, the 23rd, Northern Meats will be featuring their 3rd Sample Saturday – Hamming it up with Dearborn Hams! Stop in and see Glenn spiral slice and glaze these delicious Dearborn hams. I’m stopping in because I want to see the glazing process. Don’t forget, Smokehouse Glenn will be offering samples and taking orders for Easter hams!!

Smoked Polish Sausage

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Northern Meats Provides the Very BEST!

Published by dharold on March 18th, 2013

I am a big corned beef lover – from deli sandwiches to traditional St. Paddy’s Day dinner – I Love it!!! Last Wednesday, talking with Smokehouse Glenn, he gave me the scoop on the BEST corned beef you can buy – Grobbel’s from downstate in Michigan!! Northern Meats carries Grobbel’s and I had my wife, Debbie stop in and get one for the weekend.

Saturday morning arrived and I couldn’t look at that brisket in the frig any longer – I retrieved the Lodge Cast iron pot and started in on 2 1/2 hour cooking process. By 2 p.m., I was setting up my platter to dive into a delicious dinner. It was extremely difficult NOT to snatch any slices off the platter before this photo was taken.

Smokehouse Glenn carries the BEST product!

Grobbel’s corned beef is the BEST!

This picture will hopefully win me an IPad from Grobbel’s, St. Patrick’s Day Dinner Photo Contest!!! Thanks Grobbel’s AND Smokehouse Glenn!

 

 

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Mushroom & Swiss Brats – Great Tasting Ideas Keep Coming From Northern Meats!

Published by dharold on March 13th, 2013

The marvelous tasting wonders that come out of Northern Meats’ “test kitchen” know just about no bounds! Smokehouse Glenn was given another recipe suggestion that has resulted in another item which will make its way on to his store item list.

 

Tasty Northern Meats New Product

Smokehouse Glenn’s New Mushroom & Swiss Brats

Glenn told me this week he had Swiss cheese for sale in his store and was thinking what would go good with swiss in a brat? One usually will eat Swiss cheese on a hamburger – mushrooms also are served on a burger – let’s try these two items in a brat!

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Another Test Kitchen Success!

Mmm! As always, delicious brats meat mixture with small chunks of quality Swiss and moisture added from ground mushrooms – very tasty! Stop in and ask Glenn for some of his NEW Mushroom & Swiss Brats!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Swiss cheese morsels in every bite!

Look at Those Cheesy Bites of Northern Meats Goodness!

St. Patrick’s Day is this Sunday and it won’t be a celebration without great corned beef. Smokehouse Glenn has a direct line to one of the oldest family owned meat business that specializes in corned beef. Ask Glenn about Grobel’s corned beef – the very best you can get!

Smoked Polish Sausage

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