This Little Piggy Went to the Freezer

Luau! 


If you're hungry for hunk of fat and juicy meat,


Eat my buddie Pumbaa here cuz he is a treat! 

A hundred dollar dine, a tasty swine, all you gotta do is get in line. 

Are ya achin?

 

Yup Yup Yup



For some bacon?



Yup Yup Yup



He's a big pig, You can be a big pig too! Oy! 

So this picture is of a pig that was given to us by an accquaintance. The men folk killed the pig and butchered it in the yard. Yeehaw, I am definately in Texas, killin pigs in the yard. So far my mom in law has made chile verde, and tinga with it. I think tinga is my new favorite food. It is delicious, there is such a nice savory smokey spicy flavor to it that is hard to describe but delicious. Today my mom in law is making a posole again with the pig.  This pig has already given us about two dozen servings of food! It was also totally free, did I mention that? Free is always my favorite.  We also have two small piggies in in the pen we built for our future goats. They are only maybe twenty pounds each so we are feeding them and getting them fattened up for further delicious pig eating. Husband wants to name them something, which is fine. I think we should call them bacon and piglet or pork chop something food related to remind us that they are not pets.   It rained today and they are happy as well, pigs in mud. They are living the good life.

Butchering is an interesting thing, definately an art and science. It takes a special finesse and very sharp knives.  I didn't stay to watch because I am a whuss, I am still acclimating to the idea of live animal to food. It is hard.  I know that my grandparents didn't have such sentimental feelings.  My grandma used to live on a farm that raised pigs. Even though helping with the actual slaughter was outside my realm of comfort, I did however help wash the meat after it was cut into non pig looking hunks. You have to wash off all the blood and get all the clots off before it goes in the freezer, so that is what I helped with.    


The chickens are huge already, definately bigger than the barred rocks and americanas we had in Hawaii. I guess because these are production layers they get bigger faster and will hopefully lay sooner. I am guesstimating that we will have eggs in two months, maybe less. They are starting to get into that awkward stage where they chirp but occasionally make a cluck.