The brined turkey was juicy and wonderful, but what really made the Thanksgiving feast memorable was the kalua pig. No, not Kahlua pig (there's no coffee liqueur in this dish, and if one more person says that to me....) Kalua pig, as in ka lua (literally, the pit in Hawaiian—this refers to the method of cooking the pork in an underground earthen oven called an imu.) Since we are now city dwellers who don't have a yard, a crockpot is one way to replicate this traditional dish. I used to think crockpot cooking was lazy cooking—the dump a can of soup and meat and you've got a meal kind of cooking. But after biting into this succulent dish, I'm forever changed.

Crockpot Kalua Pork
recipe courtesy of E/S
4 to 5 pounds pork butt or shoulder
2 cups ap