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Well, just over a week since the pigs went to slaughter and we have collected our pork.

Pictures of our hoard : www.blumoon.co.uk/limetree/news.php?id=18

It is slightly more than I was expecting! Erm...sausage anyone?

Funnily enough I spent last Saturday afternoon making sausages, but NOT as many as you look like making.
For me the only trouble with large amounts of pork is I find the fat tastes decidedly manky after about three months in the freezer, but then that might just be my weird taste buds.
Either way, congratulations ....... many, many meals that have cost the planet virtually nothing and will taste far better than anything Mr Morrison can offer.

Do you get the head, cheeks, lips, brains, heart, guts, tongue, offal etc as well?

Fab Bonnie!! x

hooray!

im feeling a tad nervous about freezer space and our 4 pigs that are going off soon....

You will have to ditch some of those courgettes, Red!

Millymollymandy wrote:Do you get the head, cheeks, lips, brains, heart, guts, tongue, offal etc as well?

Eww...no thanks. I had the trotters for my jamaican friend who has a family trotter recipe

Tbh I was a vegetarian this time last year so I am rather pleased with myself for getting this far...baby steps...maybe next year I will try cheek. But never the lips! How can you eat a pig smile?

red wrote:hooray!

im feeling a tad nervous about freezer space and our 4 pigs that are going off soon....

Oooh 4 is a LOT of pork. One of ours went to a neighbour, so we have just about managed to fit two pigs in a medium sized chest freezer - which is about 2/3 the size of one of those long ones, y'know?

God luck!

bonniethomas06 wrote: But never the lips! How can you eat a pig smile?

But Bonnie, the only part of pig you cant eat is the squeal!

My OH has eaten pork cheeks often in restaurants and says they're lovely - and he's not a regular eater of 'icky' bits and wouldn't touch brains with a bargepole. Personally anything that comes from the head of anything is offputting even though I'll eat liver and kidney. I don't know why I feel like that! And that was before the neighbours' bash with their blasted veal heads all boiling in a lovely cauldron along with brains!!!