Friday, December 15, 2006
sweaty pigs
cavin and i tried our first test run with the pigs. basically, we wanted to recreate the classic "pigs in blankets" but instead, the pigs would be in sweatpants. thus, "pigs in sweatpants" was born.
i saw that hillshire farms makes two different kinds of mini hot dogs (at least at our safeway): regular hot dogs, and like a kielbasa sausage type hot dog. we opted for the regular hot dog, though, when we got home, i tasted one of the mini hot dogs and they were a little salty. i'm not sure yet what to do about this.
anyways, it took some mind-bending math to figure out how many sweatpants we could make with 1/3 of the puff pastry packet. it got complicated because i started off with one size, but it was too big, so then i started cutting the pieces in half, and rolling them out, and the next thing i knew, i had an uneven number of sweatpants, and i wasn't sure exactly how i got there.
and then, after i made smaller sized sweatpants, some of the pigs were a little too piggy and wouldn't fit in size S sweatpants. so i had to make some sized medium, or i had to cut the piggy into quarters to make their legs fit in there.
we actually only made one of the pigs put its legs in the sweatpants, and i don't think we'll do that in the future.
well, you can see from the picture how they turned out. the biggest problem with the pigs in sweatpants is that the pig resides only at the waistband, and not at the legs and ankles. so if you bite into the sweatpants at the top, you get the pig & sweatpants, but if you bite down by the ankles, you only get the sweatpants.
in the next two weeks, we will try to create something similar in theme to the pigs in sweatpants. i thought of "pigs in sweatbands." they would be similar to the classic pigs in a blanket, except there would be three strips of pastry running around the pig: 1 thicker one in the middle for the headband, and 2 smaller ones around each end for the sweatband wrists. i have this feeling though, that the puff pastry will puff up too much and we wouldn't be able to distinguish the different sweatbands, causing people to be like, "what the hell happened to those pigs in blankets?"
if you have any other ideas, please leave a comment and let me know. think if pigs were exercising or lounging, what would they be wearing?
i saw that hillshire farms makes two different kinds of mini hot dogs (at least at our safeway): regular hot dogs, and like a kielbasa sausage type hot dog. we opted for the regular hot dog, though, when we got home, i tasted one of the mini hot dogs and they were a little salty. i'm not sure yet what to do about this.
anyways, it took some mind-bending math to figure out how many sweatpants we could make with 1/3 of the puff pastry packet. it got complicated because i started off with one size, but it was too big, so then i started cutting the pieces in half, and rolling them out, and the next thing i knew, i had an uneven number of sweatpants, and i wasn't sure exactly how i got there.
and then, after i made smaller sized sweatpants, some of the pigs were a little too piggy and wouldn't fit in size S sweatpants. so i had to make some sized medium, or i had to cut the piggy into quarters to make their legs fit in there.
we actually only made one of the pigs put its legs in the sweatpants, and i don't think we'll do that in the future.
well, you can see from the picture how they turned out. the biggest problem with the pigs in sweatpants is that the pig resides only at the waistband, and not at the legs and ankles. so if you bite into the sweatpants at the top, you get the pig & sweatpants, but if you bite down by the ankles, you only get the sweatpants.in the next two weeks, we will try to create something similar in theme to the pigs in sweatpants. i thought of "pigs in sweatbands." they would be similar to the classic pigs in a blanket, except there would be three strips of pastry running around the pig: 1 thicker one in the middle for the headband, and 2 smaller ones around each end for the sweatband wrists. i have this feeling though, that the puff pastry will puff up too much and we wouldn't be able to distinguish the different sweatbands, causing people to be like, "what the hell happened to those pigs in blankets?"
if you have any other ideas, please leave a comment and let me know. think if pigs were exercising or lounging, what would they be wearing?
2 Comments:
1) there would be a gap (no pig) in the crotch region of the sweatpants (unless i make the sweatpants smaller).
2) the way i have cut the sweatpants currently allows only a quarter of the pig (sliced lengthwise) to fit in each leg.
3) this would make for a long night of dressing the pigs.
this is something that i might have to try out, because i really don't think "pigs in sweatbands" is going to work out. thanks for the suggestion.