No, the Strawberry Hill wine sauce is not something I recommend, of course I am not sure you can even buy that stuff anymore.
Unfortunately when I bbq pork shoulder for pulled pork bbq it takes up to about 16 hours so cooking overnight is very common.
I think you still can. I heard someone talking about having bought it recently and they were about my age - go figure.
My husband and I often smoke food and were talking about doing a really slow smoke overnight sometime. At one point he dug a pit and we slow cooked pork wrapped in banana leaves in it. But the last time we did it, it rained during it. Knowing the rain was cooling things off we let it cook longer. When we took it out the outside looked lovely but the inside was rather underdone. Put us off on the pit.
I have never cooked in a literal pit. Well that isn't quite true. I have done it while camping, but not for bbq at home. I have had a couple of bbq "pits". The current one is a 22" Weber Smokey Mountain (not the same as the grill) and I really like it. I will run for a long time without me having to mess with it so I can get some sleep on the overnight cooks.
You should try again loubby, but turn off your phone first.
That last attempt was 18 years ago, well before mobile phones! I have really never tried since, it's no good now as I can't eat eggs and my boyfriend doesn't like quiche so I can't see myself trying again in the near future.
The pit cooked pork was excellent, but unless you plan to use the pit at least a few times, it's not really worth it. You have to dig it out (of course) and then line it with brick and or stone and you don't use mortar so you have to reposition the lining on occasion.
I understand loubby. My husband tolerated it when I made it. The last time I did was for an all girls party (nothing kinky just food and talk) so it went over really big. We don't do girls parties too much anymore so I haven't had the opportunit to make it again.
We have some of those mouse turd chillis. I've only used them a few times since they're so easy to overuse and can kill a person if you do. I'm the only one in my house who really likes okra so the only thing I use them for is jambalaya, which I don't make very often and I would never use a whole bag of them. So I'll have to take your word for it that the frozen ones are edible.
Digging a pit to cook meat or whole fresh fish/crabs/lobsters/mussels wrapped in banana/lotus/yam leaves on a clean sandy beach is quite easy and can be good fun especially if there is a group of friends and family.
Not too keen on the normal soil/clay or hot rocks style which is harder work and more messy.
Thanks tribolite! We are contemplating moving to New Mexico and I was wondering about doing a pit in sand.
I forgot the year my folks decided to cook suckling pig for Christmas, using a wild pig my dad had shot. It took at lot of work to prep and cook the thing. No idea what that pig (or its mother) had been eating, but the meat was completely inedible. Ever had a wild duck that had been feeding on some awful fish? This was several orders of magnitude worse. Even the dog wouldn't touch it.
The next year, they ordered a pig from a butcher and it came out perfect. The dog loved it, especially the skin from the belly that had not turned into crackling. However, all that fat upset the dog's digestion very seriously. The emergency vet clinic on Christmas Day is not cheap.