Varmint's Pig Pickin', Version 2 -- 9/4/05

[Jason Perlow]

Breakfast this morning at Finch's, a local dive.

[Jason Perlow]

Heather cutting up some collards

Rochelle stirring the Brunswick Stew (sans Fat Squirrel)

[Malawry]

We're all too busy cooking to be posting, Zilla--you'll have to make do with Jason's photos for now. The slaw, potato salad and squash casserole are coming together nicely. Collards are underway. Brunswick stew is complete (YES!). Most of my MEP for hushpuppies is done, I'm just waiting for bacon fat to render. And I just heard something about bourbon pecan squares showing up...I better go investigate!

[Jason Perlow]

Dean took a number of BBQ Pig and Goat shots this morning while we were all getting up and having breakfast -- I'm about to run out and get some extra supplies at the supermarket, and I will post them in thread after I get back, but in the meantime you can view them here:

http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?act=mo...lbum&album=1704

Here's two to start:

[Carrot Top]

I'm not sure which one is funnier and more marvellous. The photo of the pig foot languishing in the bath or the pig flattened out laying covered with bacon as if it were getting some sort of pig beauty treatment.

Edited September 4, 2005 by Carrot Top (log)

[zilla369]

. . .but in the meantime you can view them here:

http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?act=mo...lbum&album=1704

Ahhhhh. that's better. Carry on.

[Rachel Perlow]

That's the goat with the bacon all over it.

[Carrot Top]

That's the goat with the bacon all over it.

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Even better.

I am jealous of you all, and am planning on how to make my children pay for being children and being subject to children's tiredness and stress which makes me, the mother, want to keep them home quietly.

Someday when they are trying to make me feel guilty about the many wrongs I imagine I do, I will quietly intone: "Remember that Pig-Pickin'?"

Sigh.

Edited September 4, 2005 by Carrot Top (log)

[Jason Perlow]

Marlene making Potato Salad

Joe and Sharon chopping Okra

Okra -- in honor of our Louisiana friends

Bacon

[Carrot Top]

Hungry.

[Jason Perlow]

[Carrot Top]

Beautiful. Looks like you have perfect weather, too!

[Jason Perlow]

This is for you, Brooks!

[Chufi]

Oh my goodness. I've never seen anything like this!

Looks like you all are having so much fun.. feasting on incredible food.. thanks for sharing it with people far far away who never thought it was possible to see a pig in a bathtub

[BryanZ]

Other than the UNC hat, everything looks amazing. Props to Varmint and everyone who made this whole thing possible.

[Jason Perlow]

[Carrot Top]

Now my third and fourth favorite photos are of the evil black hands reaching into the lovely pile of pork. . .and Ronnie Suburban looking gleefully excited as he reaches in with his tongs. . .

Really, this these four photos could be put together for the start of quite an exciting and strange children's book.

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Oh. And the food looks absolutely mouthwatering!

[rjwong]

Other than the UNC hat, everything looks amazing.  Props to Varmint and everyone who made this whole thing possible.

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BryanZ, the reason everything looks amazing is because the pig pickin' was headed up by a TARHEEL named Varmint!! No Dookie could pull this off ... successfully ...

Great job, Dean!! BTW, Dean, are you using Pistol Pete?

Folks, may I have one virtual order of hush puppies, please? I promise I'll share ...

[jamiemaw]

Now my third and fourth favorite photos are of the evil black hands reaching into the lovely pile of pork. . .and Ronnie Suburban looking gleefully excited as he reaches in with his tongs. . .

Really, this these four photos could be put together for the start of quite an exciting and strange children's book.

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Oh. And the food looks absolutely mouthwatering!

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Or this year's eGullet Christmas card.

[Jason Perlow]

Come and git it!

The merry kitchen crew: Marlene Newell, Janet Zimmerman (JAZ), Dave Scantland, Heather Shorter, Rochelle Reid-Myers (Malawry)

Hush puppies by Malawry

There's always room for...

Rachel Perlow and her magnificent Technicolor mould

[Blue Heron]

As good as the food looks, (and it all looks fabulous), the most unique photo has to be the one of that pig leg in the bathtub. Priceless!

I just stumbled onto this today at the last minute, but the photos look great!

[torakris]

Rachel, that mold is one of the most incredible things I have ever seen!

I am so jealous....

[Fresser]

There's always room for...

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Rachel,

That has to be the PURTIEST dessert my sweet-lovin' eyes have ever seen!

Have you named the various colors of the dessert? Starting from the top, I see Black Cherry, Bubble Gum, Aquamarine, Sky Blue and Cucumber. A dish this colorful could be the official dessert of the Crayola Corporation.

Say, Maggie: I'm thinking if I gas up the Fressermobile and swing by your place, we could make it to Raleigh in 12 hours or so...

[maggiethecat]

Say, Maggie:  I'm thinking if I gas up the Fressermobile and swing by your place, we could make it to Raleigh in 12 hours or so...

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Now you offer!

We can hope that there's leftover pig! I just know that the caramel cake will be gone, though.

One of my (very) few regrets about the Pig Pickin' Part One is that all the pig was gone before I emerged from the kitchen. Never got a hush puppy either, come to think of it.

Party on, good people. It looks like a rager.

[jhlurie]

Is this a new Jello spectrum? I recall grape on the top of the one I last saw.