After a strategy meeting the night before, Adrienne, Kathy, and I started prep on our pig at about nine thirty the next morning. I chopped garlic and made a dry rub paste for the inside body cavity, Adrienne put the rotisserie together (with the help of her trusty truck tool kit), and Kathy made up the magic pineapple juice solution....
Here we are getting the pig onto the rotisserie shaft and securing it into place with the tines....
Molla was an avid audience, just waiting for us to drop something...
After rubbing the whole inside of the pig with chopped garlic, salt, pepper, and spices, we sewed her up to lock in all the delicious flavors...
Here we are injecting the pig with the pineapple solution. One of the benefits of knowing animal science people: a ready supply of huge hypodermic needles :-)
After we managed to get coals lit and the pig in place, we started the coconut milk bathing...
Adrienne and Eric pressing apples. Kathy and Rich live on a small orchard and even though we filled about 50 glass jugs, we didn't even make a dent in the amount of apples.
Adrienne killing time, waiting for the pigs to cook.
The boys unveil their attempt....
Mom, Paul, and Tony...
After six hours of cooking...
Kathy and Adrienne take the pig off the rotisserie...there was almost a mutiny when I enforced a twenty minute rest period. I think fifteen minutes was all Adrienne could wait before hacking into it...
The pack gleefully waiting for crunchy ears, tail pieces, fat, and skin discarded by Adrienne and Tony.
We all had a great time and I must say that, while they could've stood some improvement, both the pigs were successes which made it an even bigger triumph since none of us knew what the hell we were doing :-)
1 comment:
This looks like too much fun. I'm getting nostalgic and misty-eyed.
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