Cooking the Pig

Cooking the Pig  

As soon as the cover came off we all wanted to look

This Thanksgiving was certainly very different. We usually meet with as many family and friends that are around at the time and choose one of the homes and everyone brings food to share. A typical family Thanksgiving. A lovely idea to catch up all the happenings and news.

This year, our grandson-in -law, Ben.( Chrissy's husband) decided as the event was at their house, he would go the whole hog ,as it were,( pardon pun) and cook a pig.

Still not done

He said he was going to cook the pig in the fire pit they have in their yard but that didn't work out as the rain had left a puddle at the bottom of the pit so getting a fire/charcoals going would have been quite a challenge. But Ben likes a challenge so he set too and built a fire pit with cement blocks and then welded two grids together to form the shelving needed. Complete with trays of charcoal underneath and thermostats stuck through the blocks it was ready to go.

Better than watching TV

It worked out really good. The whole pig was seasoned with various things , the fire got really hot and the piggy cooked for most of the day.

Two small turkeys were added later on and so we had a very different kind of Thanksgiving meal.

All ready to eat!

A most delicious one at that.

Thanks Ben for doing all that work to make it a day to remember.