Several very good friends of mine have been planning this pig roast since last thanksgiving at my house. Well, the whole premise was a house warming party for Colin, who's place burned to the ground several months before the holidays. It was his and Abbie's first house, on top of that they lost their new dog. Well, he's finally back in his remodled better then before house and has all his furniture again. It should be noted this roast was more for him and his family than anyone else there. As for the rest of us we savored the good times, booze, queso, seven layer dip, and the most gorgeous magical animal the NOBEL pig. enjoi!
the pig before we stuffed it
pineapples, jalapenos, anaheims, and poblanos
our redneck texas pit
chef colin and chef pena placing the pig in the pit
we basted the pig in coconut milk and coconut juice, with a mop of course!
this pic is for chef russell
there was so much sugar in the baste the pig skin just carmelized and candied.
we forgot to put the apple in it's mouth till the very end
it was so cold outside you could see the steam raising off the hot ass pig
When it was all done we placed the nobel pig on a big wooden board. Pretty ghetto but well worth it. At first all the kitchen people were just grabbing hunks of meat off the animal and just going at it like barbarians. That is until chef wolfshaw and pena carved out the beauty with a pairing knife (!). I really, really, wanted to get some pictures at this point, but my stomach took over. This was for the best though, the choices cuts went quick. I do have to say I tried nearly all the the great pieces, the belly (bacon piece), both cheeks (the head and ass), the sweet breads (which were awesome), even the merrow, and the eyeballs (which were fucking amazing). All the dogs there got some pork as well. Though there was this little dog sitting underneath the table just eating all the scraps falling down. This was utill they decided to flip the pig and all the juices came down like a waterfall on top of the little dog. He was so happy being drenched soaking wet in pig juices for a brief moment I kinda wished I was that little god. All in all everyone had a great time.
salud!
