It finally happened. For quite some time now I’ve felt the urging to cook up some pig but it’s always been a big chore to do so. A couple years back we got ourselves a smoker and I was tasked with smoking a pig for superbowl every year. Well, we missed that this year for some reason, and so I haven’t had my requisite pig for the year. I’ve been craving it for a while, but I really didn’t want to have to deal with the smoker and having to get up every two hours to add more wood to the flames, etc, etc. So I did the next best thing!
I’m currently borrowing a crock pot from a friend, in exchange, I am cooking up close to 9 pounds of pig butt for dinner tonight. I know, I know, that’s a helluvalot of pig but I didn’t have a choice! I went to the store yesterday to get my pig ass, and the butcher was a lil off or something cuz he refused to trim my slab of meat to make it the 6 pounds I wanted. Instead of arguing and not getting any meat at all, I decided to just take the 8.98 pounds of meat and use it. Unfortunately, as I learned, at 11:30 last night, 9 pounds of meat wrapped in ti-leaves and banana leaves DON’T FIT IN THE CROCK POT! So I had to unwrap the pig from it’s beautiful wrapping job, and try my darndest to cut out the pig bone. I know I wasted a bunch of meat doing this, but I figured, hell with 9 pounds, I can lose a bit. I wrapped it all back up, and dammit it still didn’t fit!!! So I unwrapped it again…tossed the meat in and then just shoved the leaves all around it. I think that seemed to do the trick. Although I did notice at oh 4:30 in the morning (as I kept dreaming of pig from the smell) that fat was overflowing off the sides of the crock pot…I think I finally got that all squared away (easier since the meat shrunk and I could add more leaves in) and now it’s simmering in the pot til dinnertime tonight! Let’s hope it tastes as good as it smells!