Kris came over today to help me cook the half pig’s head I got from Michael last fall. Here are Kris and Lis using dissection tools to remove the pig’s eye prior to cooking, which was surprisingly difficult. The difficulty was partially the head having been frozen then thawed, but mostly by none of us ever having done this before.
We made guanciale with the jowl, and brawn (head cheese) with the remainder of the head.