Introduction

Hello. I have bought half a pig for £95.

I've never done this before. Either buy half a pig, or do a blog. I'm mainly writing this down so I can look back and feel smug about how many dinners I'll eventually have had for my 95squids.

Some background. A friend of mine's Dad is part of a collective in the New Forest who have been raising some pigs. He asked if I'd be interested in buying half of one, and being a pork enthusiast I said 'yes please'. Also I thought it sounded quite funny having half a pig.

Me looking at the pigs (when they were alive) 

Skip forward a bit and a nice lady came to my flat with a big bag containing all the pig bits. Removing them from the big plastic sack was awfully exciting and not unlike Crimbo day. If all you got was some pig meat. Lining up all the individually wrapped parts formed a piggy crime scene which I have to admit made me giddy with anticipation.

The crime scene

Like a man from off of a CSI programme (which I've never watched) I wrote down a list of all the components. They are:

• 2 x trotters
• 1 x kidney
• 3 x leg joints
• 1 x stuffed belly
• 2 x shoulder joints
• 1 x rack joint
• 2 x hocks
• A bag of spare ribs (I didn't count them)
• 15 x chops
• 2.2kg of mince

Having filled 3 out of 4 draws of my normal sized freezer, the next step is to start cooking and eating the various bit over the next little while. This shall be catalogued in this blog. How exciting.