I got Bailey back yesterday: approximately 50kg of sausages (pork and apple, pork and leek and plain gluten-free), 10kg of minced pork and 4 leg joints!
I had originally intended to get just sausages and mince, as older boars, especially those who have been used as working boars, have a very strong flavour which can be unpleasant in a roast, but perfect for sausages and burgers. However, J, who lives at the farm where I keep the pigs, talked me into keeping a leg or two as he reckons you can slow roast them for the perfect flavour. I thought that was nicely volunteered, as did his partner, C. As it turns out, I have run out of freezer space, so the leg joints are now residing in their freezer anyway… Fate, I think!
I have, naturally, sampled the sausages and think they’re delicious. Very delicious. Too delicious. If I start oinking, it’s not because of swine flu!
Thanks, Bailey. You were a good old boy and I promise you won’t go to waste.
Bailey - 4 June 2009
(Actually, this post reminds me that I never wrote a review of my first taste of Kune Kune meat, when I sent Harold and Scratchy off in March. Must do that!)
Posted by doggonedmysteries on 12 October 2009 at 9:08 am
I have freezer space! However, that’d be a long swim for you to retrieve them. 😉 Those sausages sound yummy.
Posted by GG on 12 October 2009 at 10:38 am
Mmm, pig I once knew.
Posted by bringmesunshine on 13 October 2009 at 6:17 am
DM: Darn it!
GG: Then eat him you shall 😛
Posted by Lec on 14 October 2009 at 2:17 pm
Oh, I’m soooo jealous. Thought you’d be making your own sausages though!
Posted by bringmesunshine on 15 October 2009 at 6:12 am
Sadly, B (the OH) has been away for work and will be until January, leaving me to run the show. Sausage-making has been put on the back burner for now. However, I have got about 10kg of pork mince in the freezer, just waiting to be turned into burgers…