{"id":2017,"date":"2012-01-09T21:36:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T01:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2012-01-09T21:36:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T01:36:30","slug":"day-of-pigs-iii-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=2017","title":{"rendered":"Day of Pigs III, Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some two weeks later the Day of Pigs III finally ended.  <\/p>\n<p>On the Day of Pigs I&#8217;d put the ham and shanks in a brine mixture to cure.  Yesterday, after two weeks in the brine, I took the meat out and smoked it in my Jay Rosswurm Signature Big Stone Cooking Area smoker. <\/p>\n<p>I used a mix of hickory and wild cherry for smoking.  Nephew Tom brought over a side of bacon he had cured to smoke at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>We smoked the meat for about 3 hours and then fried up a bit to see how it tasted.  Quality is job one at Skunk Hill.  Both the bacon and the ham were splendid!<\/p>\n<p>The ham was huge so I boned it and froze it as ham steaks, ham bits, and 3 good sized ham roasts.  The bone and nasty bits I threw in a pot with some onions, carrots, and celery and cooked down for stock.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I canned that stock and I declare the Day of Pigs III finished!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some two weeks later the Day of Pigs III finally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skunk-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}