Yea.... After everyone left I had my private fit of anger and then my spell of sadness and now I'm over it. He had 7 months of piggy bliss to offset the 5 minutes of crapola. And... we put ribs on the pit this morning, from the first pig - OMG! They are absolutely PRIMO!
I cooked up the liver and the heart for the dogs. I just can't cultivate a taste for it myself and my stoopid dogs won't eat it raw, lol. What's up with that???
The cajun guy who did the hogs head was a big help. First of all, I think this hogshead cheese stuff is gonna be delicious. The procedure was kinda gross. He skinned the head, removed the brain, ears and scared me to death with the eye balls, lol. His head wouldn't fit in my pressure cooker so we had to do some plastic surgery and remove the tip of his nose - ewwwww. He added two onions, bell pepper, garlic, parsley, and lots and lots of dry seasonings along with a bit over a cup of cider vinegar and then we locked the lid down and let 'er rip.
Cajun guy left before it was done, so I had to kinda wing the rest of it on my own. When it was cooled down I opened the cooker and started trying to pull stuff out and of course it fell apart.... But, the aroma.. my oh my! I picked through it pretty good cuz some of the 'stuff' just didn't look like what I wanted to eat. And, don't tell anybody, but I took the tongue out...just couldn't eat it. I even tried... I got it close to my mouth and backed out. Anyway, then I added some pimento peppers for color and took a hand mixer to it. I poured it into a 9 x 13, covered it with foil and refrigerated it. He says to cut it into bars and eat it with crackers and a little hot sauce.... I really think it's gonna be delicious! I'll let ya'll know tomorrow.
Hubster had horrible leg cramps last night. We hardly got any sleep at all. He drank milk, coconut water, took magnesium and calcium pills and ate Vit C like it was going out of style. Nothing helped for very long. He even went and got into the hot tub in the middle of the night.
I'm kicked back with a glass of wine right now and I fully intend to get my soak on in the hot tub tonight. Sposed to rain tomorrow so maybe, just maybe I can rest!
Sorry about your piggy. At least it's over now, and you have all that fresh pork as a consolation prize! Enjoy it sis, and hopefully the lugnuts learned not to let a boy do a mans job next time. It would have been different if the kid had any experience... That would have made me mad too. Anyway, nice size on those two! Should be some primo pork chops! 
You almost tongued a piggy. I wouldn't have been able to even entertain the thought as long as it still looked like a pig tongue 
Ew! I am a countrified backwoods farm girl, but I couldn't do THAT for as long as there was other less non appetizing meat ANYWHERE in the vicinity 
