So this weekend we headed to Des Moines's Swine Fest. We packed up the car, truck, and trailor with six petite smoked suckling pigs, a smoker, bbq pit, chopping table, and all of our other ingredients and accoutrement's and headed to the self proclaimed greatest city in Iowa for a little cooking and fun. Swine fest is held at the Iowa Culinary Institute in Ankeny, Iowa, just 10 miles north of Des Moines and is a beautiful campus set right on a local lake. Everyone there was so pleasant and helpful, it hardly seemed like work at all, the wine drinking did help that too. We served smoked petite suckling pigs atop Jamaican festival cakes, topped with a banana chutney and a cilantro and green onion drizzle. The crowds seemed to like it, considering we did not stop serving food the entire time. Above is a picture from desmoine's metromix.com where you can see me frying the festival cakes and Christian behind me serving up some swine. All in all it was a great experience (Iowa wines are much better than I expected) and we got to explore a little of Des Moines on Sunday, where I would highly recommend going to the original Miller High Life Lounge, fantastic dive bar decor that made me miss my old haunts of home.
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