My order of organically farmed wild pig / baboy damo arrived
You know that “Pumba” wild pig character in the Lion King Disney movie? The wild pig we locally call “baboy damo”? Our organic farmer texted me a few days ago that they are slaughtering their wild pig. I got my 5 kilos share this Saturday morning. At last, I can taste this wild pig in our own terms, cooked and raw.
My review of the raw version. The raw wild pig red meat was tender, juicy, had its own flavor… unlike the bland icky taste of the commercial pig red meat. The fat tasted good and bland, not flavorful like raw beef fat. The skin was thick, impossible to eat raw. You’d break your teeth trying to. My 2 boys liked the raw red meat of the wild pig.
I tried frying the wild pig in its own fat. The meat, had its own flavor. The cooked food eaters at home found the meat good. I think the raw meat tasted better. The skin can be made into chicharon — pork rinds, very tough though, but the cooked food eaters like chicharon… but cooked fat easily makes me feel cooked fat icky full… “nakakaumay”. “Umay” or icky cooked fat full does not happen with raw fat.
Later at lunch, the maids cooked some wild pig “adobo” style without soy sauce. We are on a warpath against soya. So no soy sauce. Everyone liked the cooked wild pig. Tasted like pig. Without the guilty feeling that you are eating inferior pork, in fact everyone felt we were eating superior pork.
Got a total of 5 kilos so we will be having more wild pig the next few days.