[BIGLOOK]

You can make a Luau at home featuring Kalua Pig very simply and affordably. Get a good sized pork butt, some sea salt to season, wrap it in Ti leaves and place it in an aluminum pan. Add some liquid smoke to a cup or so of water and pour it in, cover tightly with foil and bake the hell out of it till the meat falls apart.

Or dig a hole, start a hardwood fire, burn it down to coals, line it with river rocks, cover with banana leaves and place a whole pig covered with ti leaves in the pit, cover with more banana leaves and a tarp and bury the sucker for half a day. Skip the liquid smoke....unnecessary.

For the latter method you'll also need a half a case of cold beer for the cook.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

“you’ll also need a half a case of cold beer for the cook.”

That sounds like my kinda cookin’, Big.

I suspect I could adapt the latter method to use with a Weber kettle grill.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

*HUG*
Thanks Big Guy!
Now, if I could only figger out where to get TI leaves in Maine!
LOL
“For the latter method you’ll also need a half a case of cold beer for the cook.”

You cook that for us, I’ll give ya all the beer you want!

[HiJinx]

I love that last recipe - the hole in the ground and the case of beer!!

We can’t seem to find Ti leaves here in Southern AZ, so we just skipped ‘em.

I smoked the butt for something like 8 hours with mesquite chips and liquid smoke. I have a Hawaiian co-worker who raved about the Kalua Pork...

[Randy Larsen]

HAH!

I can cook that!

Just a half case?