This time of year can get a little too sweet, with pies, fruitcakes, and plates piled high with cookies crowding the tables at most parties. What the holidays need more of is meat, and I’m not talking mincemeat. Can you really create lasting memories with thumbprint cookies? Instead, give your guests something to remember with a platter of savory sausage Christmas trees. All you need to build a forest of forcemeat is a few wooden skewers, pickled onions and hot sauce for decorating, beef sticks for the trunks, and a very large coil of sausage. I stopped in at Jimmy’s Food Store in Dallas for its house recipe Italian sausage, but any sausage in a continuous casing will work. You can coil the sausage inside…View Original PostThe post The Best Wurst Christmas Tree Ever appeared first on Texas Monthly.