Easy breezy dinner

I made this up this weekend and it's quite easy to throw together to have for dinner after work. Since the salad needs to be refrigerated for two hours, you'd have to make the salad in the morning or the night before if you won't have the time that evening.

The main: pork
The sides: ramen salad and steamed green beans

Pork:
7 lb pork (I've used bone-in picnic, no bone shoulder, etc)
3 tablespoons minced garlic
1C soy sauce
1C orange marmalade
3TBS ketchup
kosher salt

Trim visible fat from the pork. Cut holes in each side of the pork.Sprinkle kosher salt all over.

In a bowl, whisk soy sauce, orange marmalade, 3 tablespoons of garlic, and ketchup. Brush all over the meat. Place a table of garlic in the crock pot and spread it around. Place meat in crock and pour the remaining mixture over it. Cook on low for 8 hours. Let cool and cut into chunks.

Ramen Salad:
14 oz cole slaw mix
2 packets of ramen noodles, crushed and uncooked
5 stalks of green onion, sliced - or more to your taste (I always add more)
1 cup sunflower seeds
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup white vinegar
2 tablespoons sugar
2 packets of ramen mix (optional)

Put cole slaw, ramen, green onion, and sunflower seeds in a large bowl. Whisk oil, vinegar, sugar, and mix if using. Pour over assembled ingredients and stir well. Refrigerate covered for at least two hours.

Green beans
Steam or saute.

And that's that. Easy breezy.

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Haikuesday

Ramen, after college...
Who would have thought, right?
Some sort of rebirth.

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