Let’s talk food. This recipe was inspired by one of my favorite paleo blogs. Ever. Period. Health-Bent is ridiculously awesome at creating amazing paleo recipes. And they are especially good at creating recipes that are based off of some of their favorite regular-people-recipes. Like a cuban sandwich. Health-Bent loves cuban sandwiches and they created this amazing recipe of a cuban pork tenderloin. It’s ridiculously amazing. I’ve made it. I know all. So I made my own little cuban type meal. It’s not as good as theirs, but I tried.
Enough about food. ENOUGH. Let’s talk about things that matter. Like how my kickball game got cancelled. What a damn shame. It was 80 degrees on Sunday and it is now really cold. Like snowy cold. It snowed. There is snow on the ground. I’m officially unhappy again. Not really, but I’m not loving it either. I need to be somewhere that it’s warm every day, all the time. My endorphins would be ecstatic. Ok, let’s be honest, I’m just unhappy I don’t get to check out dudes during kickball. Lamesauce.
OMG. I need to ask YOU a question. Yes, YOU. Well, you being the person who has purchased a PaleOMG shirt. Wait…you haven’t bought a PaleOMG shirt?!?! Are you high? They are like the coolest shirts known to man. They are stupid comfortable. I’m wearing the white tank top right now. No big deal. But I want to know, how are you liking the shirts?! Do you like the material? Do you like how they fit? Do you like the colors? And what about the headband? Do you like it?! AND, most importantly, what do you think of the shirt price, delivery speed, and customer service? I want to know it all. Lay it on me!
Crockpot Cuban Pork Lettuce Wraps
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 8 hours
- Total Time: 8 hours 5 minutes
- Yield: 4-6 1x
Ingredients
- 1 head of butter lettuce, washed
For the pork
- 2lb pork shoulder roast (or roast of your choice)
- 1 yellow onion, sliced
- 6 cloves of garlic, peeled
- 1 lime, juiced
- 1 orange, juiced and zested
- 1/2 cup vegetable broth
- 1 tablespoon oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- salt and pepper, to taste
For the slaw
- 1 head of purple cabbage, sliced to thickness preference
- 5–6 dill pickles, sliced lengthwise
- 5–6 tablespoons yellow mustard (the kind you put on burgers, not the powder)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon white wine vinegar
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Crockpot time!! Add your pork ingredients to the crockpot, No perfect way to do this, I just recommend topping your pork off with the zest and spices, but whatevs!
- Cook on low for 6-8 hours.
- If you are making the pork overnight, put together your slaw so it can sit in the refrigerator overnight and all the flavors can meld together. If not, just make it right before and it will still be delish!
- Add all your slaw ingredients into a large bowl, using as much mustard as suits your fancy.
- Once pork is done cooking, use tongs to shred that guy!!
- Place shredded pork and slaw in a leaf of butter lettuce and eat it up!
Dooooooode….Bravo!
Lol thanks Julie!
Made this last night and it got a big thumbs up from both of us. Actually, yesterday was a PaleOMG day. We had your Banana Bread French toast for breakfast (my husband raved!) and this for dinner. AND I wore my PaleOMG T for the first time as well. It was a strange way to ‘celebrate’ Easter but it worked for me!
The leftover meat is going to go on top of salads of some type tonight.
You are freaking amazing Cat! Thanks so much for your support!! Glad you liked the recipes!
Would you mail me a headband to Canada? They’re great, I would love one!
I did actually mean I would BUY one….not that I expect you to just mail me one. Was just wondering if Canada is a shipping option. 😉
hahaha we DEFINITELY ship to Canada!! Absolutely!!
Made this the other night. Super yummy. Can’t wait for lunch today!
glad you liked it!
1) I just got back to work after being out of the office for two weeks, and I’ve spent most of my day catching up on your posts. I consider far more productive and beneficial than “working.”
2) I’m gonna make the shit out of this recipe. I love all things Cuban!
3) I have the black short sleeved PaleOMG shirt. Love it. I got a medium, and I generally wear a small or medium, and the medium was a little tight. May be because of my semi-large boobs (I hate them). Customer service is AWESOME. I’d actually told my fiance (now hubby) that I wanted a PaleOMG shirt. So I ordered one the next day, and, nice guy he is, decided to surprise me and ordered the exact same shirt. Since I don’t need two, he simply emailed Renegade and they were more than happy to quickly fix the issue!
I made this for dinner tonight. Fantastic! Everybody in the fam liked it. And you should know that my 17 month old actually cried when she thought I was putting away the “Mee!” (meat).
Holy Crap! We just finished dinner and this was absolutely FANTASTIC!!! The only change was I used bread and butter pickles since hubby doesn’t like dill. Freakin’ awesome and EASY. I used a 5 lb roast so we’d have some for lunch. Freakin’ awesome. Thank you!
OH MY! I made this last night and I had a VERY happy husband! Wonderful receipe, thank you!
Made this along with the Cuban-style rice for our Memorial Day get-together. Had to break the news to my friends and family that I am now in love with you.