So Friday night was Ryan and Ashley's last night in California - they would take off early Saturday morning to start a new, less exciting life in Utahr as a BYU student and a BYU Student's wife... I'll let you decide who would play which role...But we decided that a good way to see them off would be have a Luau-style pig roast, which we had been talking about for awhile and seized the opportunity of them leaving to accomplish said goal.
Joe took care of almost everything: getting the pig (originally we were going to buy a live pig, "take care of it" ourselves, and be totally us on this thing, but that proved to be difficult, so we bought an already-dead and prepped whole pig from the meat dudes in town), getting the banana leaves and lava rocks, digging the pit (in his backyard) etc...
So Joe took the day off work, and Ryan was being lazy on his last day before heading to Utahr so he didn't work, and with Matt with the baby and being sleep deprived, I was the only one at work that day... even Timmer, Kellie's dad who's spearheading the trailer remodel and who spent all night at the hostpital, too, took off work... so Joe, Ryan and Tim prepped the pig with olive oil, some spices, salt and pepper, then stuffed him with red-hot lava rocks, wrapped in banana leaves and wet newspaper, and placed him onto the hot coals that had been going since that morning, and covered him up with dirt...
Then that afternoon, once we all got off work, we congregated at Joe's to uncover the gloriousness that was to be the pig... unearthing the thing turned out to be a team effort, with several people digging with shovels, several more digging with hands, clearing coals... and several more cheering them on while drinking Dr. Pepper... I don't remember who was doing what though...
This is what the finally-unearthed pig looks like, still wrapped in the banana leaves that the native Hawaiians have been using for generations as a natural smoker and insulator... we are just like them in many ways...
I enjoyed the pleasure of the first bite - Tim but a piece from the shoulder and handed it to me, and once by tastebuds cooled down from the fire, it was pronounced DELECTABLE and ready to be eaten... 
Then we actually had to get it out of the ground, which after digging up you would think would be easy... not so much... for all those interested in Luau-ing in the future, make sure you place something with which to lift the pig into the ground when you place the pig there... might I suggest a piece of chainlink fence... perhaps you have other ideas?
Tasty...
The pig group - we actually ended up having several more people than this, but this was the group that was there for the unveiling, so really the only ones who matter enough to be in the blog... I mean, if you cared about the pig roast, show up on time!
Joe and his pig snout... no, he did not eat it... the big wuss...
In all seriousness though - we're gonna miss Ashley and Ryan... mostly because they skewered our numbers to a ridiculously younger demographic, but also because they were, well, two of the Mag 7, and I don't think a better compliment could be paid to anyone...
In an unrelated note, there are now two openings in the Mag 7, and we are taking applications...
1 comments:
It did turn out well. I would like to point out...I am not in the photo of the group that 'mattered' at the pig unveiling. I was the photographer. But I was there...Just sayin'! I miss Ash & Ryan already.
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