By Renee Martinez
The weather is turning cold…but I still have cravings for Summer favorites. This is a great slow cooker recipe that doesn’t need marinating time and has a prep time of about 10 minutes. This recipe serves about 6.
Ingredients:
1 boneless pork loin (about 2-3 pounds)
Spice Rub (recipe follows)
2 cups barbeque sauce of your choice
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 medium onions sliced, 1/2 cup water
Sandwich rolls or burger buns of your choice (I like Kaiser rolls)
Spice Rub:
2 tablespoons minced parsley (use 1 tablespoon, if using dried parsley flakes)
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1/2 teaspoon each: salt, ground ginger, nutmeg, and pepper
optional: dried chili flakes, if you want a little heat – I usually omit this when cooking for young kids
Rub pork loin with Spice Rub and place in slow cooker; pour in combined remaining ingredients. Cover and cook on low 6 to 8 hours, turning heat up to high during last 20 to 30 minutes.
Remove pork loin and shred with a fork. Return the shredded pork back into the barbeque mixture and mix. Serve in toasted sandwich rolls or burger buns, and with coleslaw.
About the Author: Renee Martinez consults and speaks professionally on social media marketing, integrated marketing communications, public relations and branding. She is the president of Ruby Marketing Communications (www.rubymarcom.com), a boutique marketing communications company that specializes in providing branding, social media strategy and integration, and creative services. Her blog (www.lisac95.sg-host.com), provides resources on everything marketing and social media for her active audience.
Renee has contributed as a featured monthly columnist in the monthly jewelry industry publication, JCK on matters related to internet marketing as well as in InStore Magazine as a featured blogger where she writes about developing effective marketing strategies for the jewelry industry using social media. She is the founder of: Social Media Biz Summit (www.socialmediabizsummit.com), the first large-scale SM conference to come to Buffalo, NY; #jewelrychat, a weekly twitter chat for the jewelry industry and www.RaisingBoysWorld.com. Renee teaches social marketing courses at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY for the business school as well as offers small group social media marketing training and educational seminars for businesses in Western New York and beyond.
Renee has dabbled in internet marketing arena since the early 90′s and is not ashamed to call herself a “marketing geek”. From chatting in AOL, “sharing” music on Napster, and teaching HTML classes before it was considered “cool” to developing comprehensive social media strategies, effective public relations campaigns and managing online communities (most recently Chevy Girls Buffalo).
She enjoys being able to help people find their voice online and to create buzz about their product or service that will give them the results they desire. Renee can be found on Twitter (@reneemmartinez) and Facebook (http:/www.facebook.com/RubyMarCom).
