DIY Bacon Pig
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There you go. Oh, yeah, the hot dog is in a jar of hot water,
thawing. As pointed out at the Superbowl party, this is going to be
like a turducken of pork! A pork-pork-porken, if you will (I
will).
Meat is neat. I don't eat much meat, but when I do I
make it count. Heck yeah. I took the pork hot dog, encased it in
ground pork, and wrapped it in bacon. I crafted an amount for the
head and even made little pork feet too!
Here's the completed, unbaked bacon pig. Those are
whole garlic cloves for the ears, and hot chili pepper pieces for
the tail and eyes (didn't have anything curly on hand). Ohhh dang
that looks dangerously delicious yet somehow cute. Actually, you
know what? He kind of looks like Piglet from Winnie the Poog. Poog?
Winnie the Pooh.
After about 40 minutes in a 400ish degree oven (give or
take; started at 350 and ending at 450 because we were running
late) this is the result.
Lovely! The browned garlic cloves kind of look like bull's horns
now, but the bacon crisped up beautifully. The pork is cooked all
the way through and the hot dog is nice and hot. It's perfect. Oh
the smell is amazing - my car smells like bacon, now, by the
way.
Here's the first interior shot. Isn't that gorgeous?
Bacon forms a perfect shell. A skin? A...pig skin?
(football, pigskin, get it?) Of course it's greasy but no more than
a big slice of breakfast sausage. Slicing it was really easy
because of the crisp bacon and firm pork, and it was actually
really good on rye bread.
Here's the whole little fellow sliced and plated. The
ears were delicious. I'm pleased at how well it went over at the
party. Pretty cool looking huh? Actually if you wanted to make this
but do it a little less creepy you could easily just make it a log
- leave off the head and legs, and bake it on a tray so it drained
a little better. The bacon wraps so well and it holds together
perfectly. The pork slices clean, too.
