Watermelon piggies.
Alright, so every year, we start it the same way.
We cut a little foot on the...
Well first, we wash our melon,
we give it a good wash with a little paper towel.
And then, we give it some stability.
It's the same rule as an onion, right?
You wanna give it a flat surface.
You give it some feet so it doesn't roll away from you.
There we go.
So now, we've got a sturdy little base,
you got your watermelon.
We're gonna cut one cut here, one cut...
We're gonna cut a little basket.
So, one down the front.
There you go.
And then one back?
And then across, yup.
And then, we're gonna pull that piece out.
We'll flip it around.
There you go.
Hello.
Look, you're ahead of me this year.
That's delicious. (guest laughing happily)
We're gonna take this,
and we're gonna cut it into like a third this way.
Okay.
We are gonna use our knife...
I've got a pairing knife here, if that's a little easier.
We're gonna cut out the pink part, leaving the rind,
but we wanna keep a little bit of pink on it
because our piggies are pink, right?
So we wanna give him some little pink legs,
so we wanna cut off this part.
Oh, these are gonna be legs?
These are gonna be his legs, yup.
So we're just gonna cut this little piece
into one, two, three.
Well, this guy's got a little highlight.
(Rachael laughing happily)
Our piggies are all different colors.
Um, so now we've got our little leggies.
Little leggies!
So now, we are gonna take a little biscuit cutter.
We're not bakers, so I use these things for fruit carvings.
(guest laughing happily)
And we are gonna cut his little snout out of that.
Ah, the snout!
A little snout, a little snout.
(Rachel giggling playfully)
(Rachael oinking happily)
I know, I know. (audience laughing happily)
From another piece of this, we're gonna cut the ears.
I've got it all.
And we're gonna scoop all of this out
to make a little basket.
I've got it all done for us on the next stage.
We're gonna give him his snout right in the center.
I like to do two toothpicks
and make sure he's pretty secure.
Okay.
And then, right in the...
These toothpicks don't wanna go in.
Oh my gosh, really?
I know...
I'm gonna pierce my hand before I get the snout in!
(audience laughing amusingly)
The good thing with this one
is that they don't have to dig all the way in
'cause we're gonna top them with some blueberries.
So, if you've got some toothpicks-
Oh, now you tell me!
(everyone laughing amusingly)
Or, you could do some additional ones.
Now I gotta pull it out!
There. Alright.
I hope your dentist is not watching this segment.
Okay, so let's put...
(Rachael laughing amusingly)
So we've got his little snout,
you've got his little blueberry nostrils.
(Rachael grunting effortfully)
I know, I have a lot of broken fingernails
from shoving toothpicks into things.
His little nostrils.
From the base that we cut,
I used another little biscuit cutter.
I cut us two little eyeballs.
So we're gonna stick in two...
Sometimes I even cut the toothpick in half
if we're feeling... I think this one's okay.
A little eye.
What's that?
That's his eye, there's two little eyes.
But, where'd you get the eyes?
I cut them out of the base when we-
Oh, I see.
When you took the feet.
I used another biscuit cutter and we cut out eyes.
I gotcha.
So we're gonna stick on his little eyeballs,
also made with blueberries.
(Rachael grunting effortfully)
Excellent work.
And so then from the other piece of watermelon,
I cut out some little pink piggy ears.
We're just gonna tack those right in the back.
Okay.
(Rachael laughing happily)
So now, our little piggies come to life a little bit.
We can his nose, we can see his eyes, his little ears.
(audience applauding happily)
I'm trying!
Yeah, you're doing a fantastic job.
Now as we know, from all of our tails of piggies,
what is the best part of the piggy
besides his twirly little tail, right?
I've got a really cute way of-
I love the curlicue.
What are these things gonna do?
What, which ones?
Oh, those are his feet, my gosh!
You didn't put any feet on the poor little guy.
Wow, I got really excited about his tail.
Alright well, just imagine holes in my fingers
putting the feet in.
More holes in our fingers, (guest laughing amusingly)
sticking out feet right in here.
Okay, four feet on.
I've got a bunch more at this table we can see.
So now-
I'm taking this tail, 'cause I'm-
Oh no, I'm gonna show you how to make the tail.
Yeah, you can go ahead and do that-
I was digging around-
I'm putting on in so I can say that I finished my pig.
(guest laughing happily)
I was digging around John's cocktail box
and I found this channel knife, and-
Oh, the channel knife is awesome.
It's really cool.
He uses it for cocktails.
So yeah, you hold it down on the lime,
and you wanna get the longest strip that you can.
And it's just really fun to do this.
So you get the longest strip of lime that you can,
and then you take a chopstick, or the back of fork,
or a bar spoon, and you take that,
and you wrap it around the chopstick,
you leave it overnight, and look at these swirlies.
Look at these, guys, look at these little tails.
Very cute! Aren't they fun?
(audience applauding impressively)
Look at that.
Oh, you filled it and everything.
Bring that down here,
bring that with the rest of our pig family.
We gotta show that one off, that one looks phenomenal.
The feet aren't attached though.
(Rachael laughing happily)
(audience applauding impressively)
It's perfect.
Look at that!
So now my other favorite thing...
So, look at his little piggy tail.
Look at how cute-
Yay!
(audience cheering impressively)
(sparkles swooshing magically)