Centuries Old Family Recipe
Mulay’s Sausage is made according to my family’s centuries old recipe from Sicily. Our family crest dates back to 1326 AD when ancestor Nicolo’ was the Senator of Palermo! Through the centuries the family moved around and settled in the village of ‘Lucca Siccula’ in Sicily, Italy. The families of my grandparents, Nanu John and Nana Rose, immigrated from Sicily to the United States around the turn of the century and settled in Pueblo, Colorado. Today, the tradition lives on! Mulay’s Sausage is proudly brought to you from my family living in Crested Butte, Colorado.
Though the family has moved around a bit in the last several centuries, nothing has been able to change the way Mulays’ make Sausage! It is still ‘All Natural’, with no nitrates, no preservatives, no artificial colors or hormones. Our Sausage is 80% lean and tastes great! People always tell us, “it’s just like I use to get in Brooklyn!” or Chicago, or Boston… and we just smile and know that it’s even better… our Sausage is ‘all natural’! “How can it be so good?” I asked my Nana. She told me “there is no secret, good ingredients and love make the sausage so delicious.”
We started making Mulay’s Sausage to share with friends in 1990. I got the idea when we were in New York, visiting my husband’s family. We went to an Italian street festival where everybody and their cousin were selling Italian Sausage sandwiches with peppers and onions. I personally don’t eat sausage, (other than Mulay’s!) but I was forced into trying one, and I thought to myself, “My Nana’s are so much better than this!” Once back home, I had a brilliant idea! Let’s make sausages and sell them at our 4th of July celebration! My husband and I spent the next few weeks, pulling it together, grinding fresh, lean pork, mixing spices, and then came the “stuffing” part. We spent 12 hours making 400 sausages with a kitchen aid!
We proudly took our sausages to the 4th of July festival and began shouting “Get your Hot ITALIAN Sausages here, peppa’s an-onions on’a home baked roll!” The sausages started selling faster than we could cook them! Everyone loved them and we’ve been making them ever since. Because we want to have enough to share with the whole world, we aren’t making them by hand anymore but we’ve found someone special to make them for us who ensures the same love and care that my Nana put into each one.
