(Americana music)
Hey y'all!
I grew up showing pigs and they're my favorite animal.
But sometimes because of that, I have a little bit
of a hard time eating pork.
Today we're gonna go to a local pig farm
and play with some baby pigs
and then come back and make a pork-free
late summer veggie plate.
(Americana music)
(baby pig squeals)
(chuckles) They're so cute and tiny.
These are four days old.
I grew up showing pigs.
My first pig, her name was Daisy.
And I showed every year from the fourth grade
to the 10th grade.
My mom, when I was growing up,
would read Charlotte's Web to me.
I pretended like I was Fern when I was little
and in Charlotte's Web, Fern would always take Wilbur
and kinda just like, that was her baby
and I always treated my pigs like they were my baby.
Girl pigs and boy pigs.
Girl pigs that have not had any children are called gilts
and boys that have been castrated are called barrows.
(pig squeals)
Oh!
Right now it's about 92 degrees outside
and I am glistening 'cause southern women,
we don't sweat.
Pigs, they also don't sweat or glisten
so that's why they roll around in the mud.
Whatever you call pigs, a lot of people say sooey!
Or woo, sooey piggy, come here!
And so, I'm kinda scared to say that to any of these pigs
so they think that I'm food.
When I used to show pigs, the showing weight
was anywhere from 200 to 300 pounds.
That was regulation.
These pigs are about double the size of the pigs
that I would show, so these are probably around
450, 500 pounds.
(upbeat music)
Typically on a pig farm like this,
you'll have about five or six sows which are the mama pigs
and you'll have one boar, so he's a lucky fella.
This is the boar, the dad of all the baby pigs
that we've played with today.
He's a big fella.
Okay so I used to wash my pigs in buttermilk
before the pig show every year.
I don't know if these pigs are gonna really like it.
They're not about to go to show,
so they really probably don't wanna get clean,
but I'm gonna attempt it.
If any of you have ever shown pigs
and you've washed a pig with buttermilk
or you've done anything similar to this
because you grew up reading Charlotte's Web
or you maybe had a different secret,
be sure to put it in the comments and tell me all about it.
I can't wait to hear about 'em.
The buttermilk is actually pretty nourishing
for the pigs' skin and it really just gets
a lot of the mud and dirt and impurities off
and also nourishes the skin, which is a great trick
for people's skin too.
The like a good behind the ear scratch
is what I always learned.
At the end of the county fair,
you had to send the pigs to market,
and for me that was my least favorite part.
I'd spent four or five months really getting to know
my pig and feeding it and walking it every day.
It was kinda like my best friend,
just like Wilbur was for Charlotte.
And so after I took my pig to market,
I told my parents that I could not eat pork
for the next three months because I didn't know
when my pig was gonna be sold.
So today in honor of my three month tradition every year
of not eating pork, we're gonna go back to my kitchen
and we're gonna make a really good
southern summer vegetable plate.
(upbeat music)
So I've got some sweet corn.
This is bicolor sweet corn and I'm going to use this
corn creamer and cream my corn so we can make
really good creamed corn.
That stuff that you can get in the can, y'all,
does not compare to fresh creamed corn.
It can be a corn cutter where it cuts kernels
easily off of the cob for you
or it can cream the corn and what that means is that
it kinda crushes the kernels as you cut them off
of the cob and gets that natural corn milk
that you want that makes creamed corn really, really yummy.
If any of y'all have one these corn creamers
at your house or maybe you've seen one lying around
at your grandmother's house and you didn't know
what the heck it was, put it in the comments.
I wanna hear about it.
Do you like using the corn creamer?
Do you use a knife to make your creamed corn?
Let me know and tell me about it.
We've got our creamed corn that we're gonna go ahead
and get started while we finish up the rest of
our veggie plate.
Oops.
We're just gonna turn it on low and kinda let this simmer
while we're finishing up the rest of our veggie plate.
I've got my creamed corn on the stove
and I think I have some fresh okra in my garden
so let's go out there and check.
I like to pick my okra kinda small
so maybe about three inches or so.
Anything longer than that tends to get kind of chewy
and tough and you really like your okra super tender.
For this recipe, we have smashed whole fried okra
and so we have whole okra pods that we're gonna take
a meat mallet and smash.
You're really gonna be able to see the okra seed
and inside of the pods so that you can make sure
to get all of that crispiness inside of the okra.
We're gonna soak our okra in some buttermilk.
For my judging, we have some fine yellow cornmeal,
and some salt and pepper.
We make sure that we have buttermilk cutting
the entire okra pod and then having a wet hand
and a dry hand and so, using my wet hand,
I'm gonna take my wet buttermilk-soaked okra
and put it into the dry cornmeal mix.
And now with my dry hand,
I'm going to give it a little toss.
This is my favorite way to eat fried okra.
I love being able to take a bite out of that okra pod.
What do y'all think about these?
To me, this guy is my star.
I have crispy all over the inside and on the outside.
If it were up to me, I'd go ahead and sneak a bite now.
So this has been simmering for a little while
and now we're going to add some butter
and some milk and cream.
This is gonna be super decadent and just really yummy.
This recipe for glazed field peas is not the way
I grew up eating peas, y'all.
They're not mushy, they're super acidic
and have a lot of butter and they're super yummy.
You throw 'em in a pan with some chicken stock
and butter and then put your peas in and kinda
shake your pan around and glaze your peas
and then add some lemon juice, salt, pepper
and herbs at the end and they are super yummy.
I love to put some sliced fresh heirloom tomatoes
and sliced fresh Georgia Vidalias on the side
of all my veggie plates.
It just adds some freshness and some nice contrast
to the cooked vegetables.
So I have some friends coming over later to enjoy
this veggie plate with me, so I'm just gonna make sure
that I have everything on pretty serving platters.
We had fun at the pig farm today playing with little pigs
and now we've got a great summer vegetable plate
that is completely guilt-free.
Thank you for having us over.
So we'll see you next time.
Bye, y'all.
(soft guitar music)
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