It's just not mint to be...

Vietnamese Spring Lettuce Rolls with Shredded Pork

Gatherer likes a good lettuce wrap. I gravitate toward Asian and Mexican as my favorites. Hunter and the Natives tend to prefer Italian. I take that back, Hunter is a good sport and likes most types of food, but the Natives love their pasta something fierce. I thought this would be a good receipe because of the novelty of eating food out of lettuce. I was really excited for it as I was making it becuase it used one of my favorite shortcuts, precooked shredded pork. It used a premade lemongrass confit, which is a little annoying but for time's sake I get it. Where I started side eyeing this recipe was on the slaw/salad topping. They send basil, cilantro, and mint. There was way way way to much mint in the salad. It used my new favorite nuc cham and cucumbers, both nice. I kept the jalapeno out of Hunter and the Native's servings.

When I took my first bite I was so very disappointed. The pork flavor was horrible. I don't think it was the lemongrass, I've had it before and thought it was delightful. I think it was the pork itself, it wasn't pork that had gone bad, it just wasn't a good flavor in the least bit. The mint overpowered EVERYTHING. Hunter couldn't place the flavor but immediately looked at me and said "there's too much of something in here". I made the decision right then and there, if the natives didn't want to eat their dinner I wasn't going to make them. It was the first meal in a long long time that I've made and considered inedible. I have made lettuce cups before that were very good, but this was not it y'all.

Rated a glass of luke warm iced tea served to you by a well meaning mid-western sweet old lady so you have to drink it even though it is horrible.

Seriously, if you order this, you do so at your own risk and I'll not be held accountable for your poor culinary tastes.