This weekend is no different except that there's more shooting because it's a long holiday weekend, today is Día de la Constitución and Wednesday is Inmaculada Concepción.
Late on Sunday afternoon, Antonio who is a neighbour of ours drove down as far as he could (new road, couldn't get far) to help a friend of his. They'd shot a boar earlier in the day and needed help to get it up to the road. It must have been a long way down in the bushes as he was gone quite a while. We next saw him with the boar in a wheelbarrow while his 2 sons and a friend had a rope around the dead boar - with the boys pulling and Antonio pushing the barrow they managed to get the boar to where he'd left his car. I assume they couldn't get it in, because he drove home pulling the boar behind him.
He stopped on the way past to replace the road closed sign that he'd had to by-pass and we went out to see how big the boar was. He reckons about 70 kilos which explains why they couldn't get it in the car! He then asked if we'd like some meat - a leg perhaps or a shoulder. I'm not very keen on meat that looks like an animal - skinned and jointed I can cope with, so John went up to watch and help with the jointing.
But not only did we get given a leg which weighs 4 kilos, but also a rack of ribs, some steak and trimmings. A grand total of 8 kilos. Antonio has to take some samples for the vet to test to make sure the animal is edible and when we get the ok, we'll get some cooked. We've been googling for ideas - marinade it, cook low and slow seems to be recommended but we've also found some lovely sausage ideas.
Who said there's no such thing as a free lunch?
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