In The Guardian Sam Wollaston takes to Willie's Wonky Chocolate Factory and makes me want to watch it. This is what he says about the roasting of a chocolate basted pig:
Junkie pig, that's what I want. It's a dish I wasn't aware of before watching Willie's Wonky Chocolate Factory (Channel 4, Sunday), but that's probably because it almost certainly doesn't exist outside the Harcourt-Cooze family. Willie H-C is one of those posh people it's impossible not to like. He has a wild look in his eye that suggests he's lived a bit, he has big plans, crazy ideas, tons of enthusiasm. It's just not clear whether he's got the down-to-earth skills to make those plans happen.
Chocolate, that's his thing: he's trying to make the king of chocolates, with beans grown on his farm in Venezuela. It's basically that show Jimmy's Farm, with palm trees. It looks fun being one of the Harcourt-Cooze kids. So what if the family Volvo doesn't have glass in all its windows - they get to hang out in the jungle for a month every year, dance salsa, eat chocolate with everything, including junkie pig.
You need a whole pig for Junkie Pig, and an outdoor wood-burning oven big enough to accommodate it. Kill the pig and make a marinade from white wine, balsamic vinegar, apricots, and chocolate of course, all buzzed up together. Then inject it into the pig, using a fresh hypodermic needle (hence the name) - all over, like a proper old smackhead, not like some novice, first-time user. Then pop it into the oven for about three hours, until the skin is nice and crispy. Yum. You don't see that on MasterChef.
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