The Bacon Beat

What's the difference between Polish Sausage and Kielbasa? The answer may surprise you...

...However you grill it, mix things up with a variety of sausage flavors from Nolechek's Meats. For a classic taste, choose from Unsmoked Polish Sausage with Garlic or Hickory Smoked Garlic Polish Sausage. If garlic isn't for you, serve up Nolechek's Plain Polish Sausage. And, for a perfect Wisconsin Polish Sausage bite, pick up some Garlic Polish Sausage with Sauerkraut.

Did you know that Sweetest Day dates back nearly 100 years? Since then, it's evolved into a popular holiday for sweethearts, primarily men. That's right! Guys get their special day, too, and Nolechek's is your one stop (meat!) shop for Sweetest Day.

Food is one of the strongest, most tangible connections to our past. For people of Czech descent, Jaternice - a traditional Bohemian sausage - can be traced back hundreds of years to their ancestral homeland. This hearty sausage utilizes the whole hog - including parts that are often discarded today - and is a testament to the frugality and practicality of the Czech people. Fortunately for us, Czech immigrants passed down their recipes through the generations, so that we can continue to enjoy this traditional Old World sausage today. 

For some, eating snout-to-tail may sound intimidating. On the contrary, using the whole animal is not only environmentally and economically responsible, it's also delicious! We craft our Jaternice with the highest quality barley, pork cuts, and pork skins. Seasoned with hints of marjoram, sage, onion, and garlic, Nolechek’s Jaternice is a simple and comforting specialty sausage. Squeeze the sausage out of its casing as a hash and top it with an egg for breakfast. Or spread it on crackers as a tasty snack. For a heartier meal, serve baked, broiled, or grilled Jaternice Sausages with sauerkraut, potatoes, and a crusty loaf of good bread on the side. 

Finding authentic, Old World sausages can be a challenge. That's why Nolechek's is committed to honoring our Bohemian heritage by crafting traditional products, including Jaternice, Kishka, and Swedish-Style Potato Sausage (OK, not Bohemian but amazing). These are some of our most unique and popular specialty sausage and we ship them across the United States. We also sell these sausages in our store right here in Thorpe, Wisconsin. We invite you to "czech" them out!

P.S. If you want to ask for Jaternice by name, it's pronounced 'ya-ter-neet-sa' - it's fun to say and even better to eat!

Enjoy!

- Nolechek’s Meats

 

Here’s a creamy, savory, spicy entrée that lets you keep your low-carb and keto goals in line while feeling like you’re trying something new. Juicy chicken breast gets butterflied and stuffed with garlicy jalapeño cream cheese and then wrapped in Nolechek’s hickory smoked bacon before baking. …and if you don’t like heat, just leave out the jalapeño and green chile powder and enjoy a garlic cream cheese stuffed bacon wrapped chicken breast without the spice!

Learn about how Nolechek's uses pure Wisconsin honey in their curing recipe and where that honey comes from: Danny Farms of Greenwood, Wisconsin. Hickory Smoked Honey-Cured Bacon is the best!

Grab everything you need for grilling out this Labor Day Weekend! We've got smoked pork chops, hickory smoked bacon, and loads of specialty bratwurst and weiners for holiday weekend meals. Here are Nolechek's Top 5 Favorites for Labor Day Grilling:

Lindsey (Nolechek) Fox talks about what her favorite meat products, to make, are and gives family background and history surrounding her fourth-generation family smokehouse, located in Thorp, Wisconsin.

BLTs are everyone's favorite summer sandwich and Nolechek's is giving you our Top 5 List of BLT Add-On ingredients to help you soup up your sandwich, plus our bacon-pairing recos for each one.

Ever think, "I'd wrap that in bacon"? Yeah, we think about that a lot, too. Here's our Top 10 List of foods we love to wrap in Wisconsin's Finest Hickory Smoked Bacon.

Nolechek's Meats answers questions about summer sausage's history, ingredients, and other food facts in this Wisconsin-style FAQ.

Pot roasts are easy to make and they taste great. They are also known for being cheap, gaining more flavor the longer you cook them.

We all love a good dish of spaghetti and meatballs. That's why we're letting you in on 5 unique flavors you must try to bring your meatball game to the next level.