Pig Roast

As many of you know this blog is primarily Ashley's (even though she updates it once a year). Well I am now taking over this blog because my business writing class requires I keep a weekly blog as part of the the course work. So be careful while leaving comments as my BYU professor may be reading them. Although he did say today that we could plagiarize if we wanted to burn in hell which I thought was pretty dang funny since I like to say that a lot, especially while giving lessons to the youth.

So for my first blog post I would like to share something I did two weekends ago. For those of you who don't know, our friends, (now old friends) threw us a going away party which included roasting a pig in the ground. It was probably one of the top 5 coolest things I have done so far in this life and I suggest everyone do it or at least come to one of our annual pig roasts in the future. I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Here is the pit in which Wilbur cooked. Joe said he could dig it in 15 minutes but did not take into account he hadn't water his backyard since he bought the house so the dirt was more like a rock. It took him 3 hours to dig this.

This is Wilbur hanging out in Joe and Tiffany's fridge. I would not be surprised if Tiffany makes Joe buy a new fridge and put this one in the garage to designate it as the annual pig roasting fridge.

This is Wilbur right before Tim, came over to save the pig roast and show Joe and I how to make a pig roast rub.

Close up of Wilbur.

Wilbur wrapped in Banana leaves

Once Wilbur was in the ground it was cool how you could stand on top and barely feel the heat from the roaring 2000 degree coals below. It was pretty cool especially because I did not think this would work at all.

This is Tim, Kellie's dad, using his electronic thermometer to test if Wilbur was done. When the thermometer hit 170 degrees we leaped like school girls, as we were all nervous about the Wilbur cooking all the way.

Even though Matt Felt had been up for 96 hours straight, or close to that, he made an appearance and supervised Matt Jackson digging up the pig. I could be wrong but this may be the only picture of Jackson doing manual labor. Unfortunately Kellie couldn't make it due to Taylor not wanting to come out of her nice comfy home until she was forced out earlier that morning.



Joe and Tim working on getting Wilbur out of his nice steamy oven.

After we lost two of Wilbur's legs, Joe and Tim had to get creative and used cooking sheets to put under Wilbur for support so we wouldn't loose any other body parts.

Wilbur after we cut out about 1/2 of his meat.

If you are thinking to yourself that Wilbur must have been delicious, moist, and flavorful, then you are right. He was quite tasty and we are thankful to our friends for throwing us such an awesome going away party. We are also thankful for Taylor being born before we moved. So you can expect to check back once a week for an update. I hope all is well with everyone!