The Pig Sty - Porcine Pleasure

[Mrs.Cicero]

4 hours ago, Schmidt Meister said:

Kielbasa Pig Shots

Ingredients:

2 pkg.’s - kielbasa

2 16 oz packages – bacon

8 oz. - cream cheese

1/2 cup - Mexican 4-cheese blend

3 oz. - green chiles, diced

1/2 cup - brown sugar

1/2 tsp - chili powder

1/2 tsp - cayenne pepper

1/2 tsp - BBQ rub + enough for a light dusting

Instructions:

Cut sausage down to discs about 3/8” thick.

Wrap ½ slice of bacon around the disc and fix in place with a toothpick or skewer several “shots” (10” skewer can hold 4-5 shots).

Soften cream cheese and mix in cheese blend and chiles

Pipe or spoon the cream cheese blend into the shot

Mix the brown sugar, chili powder, and cayenne pepper together and sprinkle on top of cream cheese filling

Lightly sprinkle with BBQ rub

Cook indirect around 280-320 degrees until bacon has crisped up (approx. 70-90 minutes). Wood for smoke is optional, I personally DO NOT like to use wood for flavoring.

(I had 2 packs of bacon and one pack was thicker bacon and the other was thin and falling apart.  Make sure and get thicker bacon as its easier to wrap and makes them look a whole lot better.

Also my wife had some homemade bbq sauce that we put on about half of them, and I thought they were better with BBQ glazed on the last 15 min of cook time.  Also be generous with the cream cheese mix on top.  The bites that had lots of that mix on there were the best!)

I am SO stealing this recipe!

[Schmidt Meister]

26 minutes ago, Mrs.Cicero said:

I am SO stealing this recipe!

You WILL NOT regret it. Word of caution. You can't stop eating them.

[DAKA]

2 hours ago, Mrs.Cicero said:

I am SO stealing this recipe!

Next party I am making a batch    (recipe copied and printed)

[Schmidt Meister]

9 hours ago, DAKA said:

Next party I am making a batch    (recipe copied and printed)

If you're having a party, you might want to double that recipe, lol.

[gwalchmai]

I'm still trying to do the math of 13 pigs turning into 700 pigs in three years. That's a lot of begettin'.

[Mrs.Cicero]

If 10 of those pigs were breeding sows, and were bred twice a year, having 10 piglets each breeding on average, there would be 213 pigs at the end of the first year... except that the piglets from the first litters would get bred at 6 months, so that would actually be 313 pigs in the first year alone.  You would have to eat a lot of pigs to only have 700 in year 3, lol

 

[Walt Longmire]

21 hours ago, Schmidt Meister said:

The pigs around here have black fur. We call them black bears and they taste mighty fine when they have been in the blueberries.

[Walt Longmire]

21 hours ago, Schmidt Meister said:

Kielbasa Pig Shots

Ingredients:

2 pkg.’s - kielbasa

2 16 oz packages – bacon

8 oz. - cream cheese

1/2 cup - Mexican 4-cheese blend

3 oz. - green chiles, diced

1/2 cup - brown sugar

1/2 tsp - chili powder

1/2 tsp - cayenne pepper

1/2 tsp - BBQ rub + enough for a light dusting

Instructions:

Cut sausage down to discs about 3/8” thick.

Wrap ½ slice of bacon around the disc and fix in place with a toothpick or skewer several “shots” (10” skewer can hold 4-5 shots).

Soften cream cheese and mix in cheese blend and chiles

Pipe or spoon the cream cheese blend into the shot

Mix the brown sugar, chili powder, and cayenne pepper together and sprinkle on top of cream cheese filling

Lightly sprinkle with BBQ rub

Cook indirect around 280-320 degrees until bacon has crisped up (approx. 70-90 minutes). Wood for smoke is optional, I personally DO NOT like to use wood for flavoring.

(I had 2 packs of bacon and one pack was thicker bacon and the other was thin and falling apart.  Make sure and get thicker bacon as its easier to wrap and makes them look a whole lot better.

Also my wife had some homemade bbq sauce that we put on about half of them, and I thought they were better with BBQ glazed on the last 15 min of cook time.  Also be generous with the cream cheese mix on top.  The bites that had lots of that mix on there were the best!)

I'd eat that. ALL of that.

[Schmidt Meister]

[crockett]

You gotta get some Boston Butt, cut it into 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick cutlets, marinate over night in:

- salt

- black pepper

- paprika powder

- yellow onion rings

- minced garlic

- beer

 

and grill over hot charcoal fire. Have some herb butter and potato salad with it.

 

[Historian]

On 9/5/2021 at 9:43 AM, Mrs.Cicero said:

You would have to eat a lot of pigs to only have 700 in year 3, lol

Oh, don't tempt me.   

[Schmidt Meister]

  I didn't even know this was a real thing, now I have 2 cans and I'm scouring online for the perfect recipe.

[Schmidt Meister]

Canadian bacon. Do y'all remember Phillip and Terrence?

[Schmidt Meister]

[Schmidt Meister]

[Schmidt Meister]

When the bacon takes YOU home ....

[Schmidt Meister]

The supreme pork and tater platter at The Still, redneck restaurant in the backwoods.

[Schmidt Meister]

Bacon is such a hussy ...

[Schmidt Meister]

[Schmidt Meister]

[Schmidt Meister]

Salt pork.

[Schmidt Meister]

I know a lot of people didn't grow up in the deep south but I did and I spent most of my younger days living in the woods and we ate what we caught because that was life. The simple recipes I grew up eating and learning, to me, were better than anything that could be bought in a restaurant. I actually preferred eating country cooking to anything store bought. This is one of my favorite recipes. Simple and filling and can't be beat for deep flavor.

Slow Cooker Neck Bones & Potatoes

Prep: 15 minutes

Cook: 6 hours

Ingredients:

3 lbs fresh pork neck bones NOT smoked

1 1/2 large yellow onion sliced

2 packets brown gravy mix, or pull the gravy out of the freezer from the last time

3 tsp seasoning salt

1 1/2 tsp coarse black pepper

2 tsp garlic powder

2 tsp onion powder

3 cups vegetable broth

5 medium russet potatoes peeled, and sliced

Instructions:

Make sure that you clean the neck bones before anything else ( don't skip out on this step!)
Now toss all of the neck bones into the slow cooker.
Sprinkle in the seasoning salt, black pepper, garlic powder, and onions powder.
Now sprinkle in the gravy packets, and toss in those sliced onions.
Pour in the vegetable broth.
Toss in the potatoes, then top the slow cooker with the lid.
Let cook for 6 hours on high.
Serve and enjoy over rice or with your favorite vegetable.

[holyjohnson]

On 9/4/2021 at 1:39 PM, Schmidt Meister said:

Making bacon a tad too close to the electric fence.

i`m not gonna get too deep into this,

 

But i have had that happen..

[Schmidt Meister]

8 hours ago, holyjohnson said:

i`m not gonna get too deep into this,

 

But i have had that happen..

My friend .... that should be a lesson to you ... Mother Nature does not like sex between the species. Stay out of the pig pen, ..... rofl. (All in jest, sir.)

[Schmidt Meister]