Slow Cooker Pulled Pork Sliders with Jicama Slaw

As I sat in the dentist’s chair during a cleaning, I started to daydream. I mean, what else can you really do while you sit in the chair? Of course, I started thinking about food. Then, I started thinking more specifically about jicama… which is strange. Why is that strange? Because I had never had it. I wouldn’t even have been able to tell you what it looked like. Now that I think about, how can you even daydream about something you’ve never had? Maybe it wasn’t daydreaming? Maybe I was just thinking about it, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I had it in my head it was crunchy. I don’t know why I thought that, but alas, that is what I thought I knew about jicama. And indeed, I was actually right about that! So I thought, hmm, maybe it would be cool in a coleslaw kind of thing. But then, I don’t really want to eat just coleslaw. So what could go with it? After I got home, the question was still burning, so I asked Seth. He suggested pulled pork. Bingo! Plus, it was an opportunity to give some love to a much neglected piece of equipment in our kitchen, the slow cooker. So, thanks to a trip to the dentist, here are some juicy and tender pulled pork sliders with red cabbage, carrot, and jicama slaw dressed in a cider and walnut oil vinaigrette. I wonder what the dentist would think about all this…