Slow Cooker Chinese Barbecue Pork {Char Sui}

This slow cooker Chinese barbecue pork, or char sui, is pretty much meat candy. It's pork that has been cooked for several hours in the slow cooker, and then brushed with with a Chinese-style barbecue sauce and broiled until crispy and caramelized.


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This Slow Cooker Chinese Barbecue Pork, or Char Sui, is such an easy way to prepare pork butt (or Boston butt). I like to make a big batch of it to use in dishes such as barbecue pork lo mein and Singapore noodles. It's also delicious added to fried rice.

Slow Cooker Red Beans and Rice

This Red Beans and Rice Stew is creamy, smoky, spicy, and satisfying. It will take you on a mini vacation to Louisiana.


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Red beans and rice is a traditional Monday night dinner in New Orleans. It's a great dish to simmer all day and a dinner to look forward to on the first day of the work week, or any day of the week.

Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes with Sour Cream and Chives

These Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes with Sour Cream and Chives are creamy and delicious, and ready in just about 20 minutes from start to finish.

These Instant Pot mashed potatoes are loaded with flavor and creaminess from both the butter and the sour cream. Top them with shredded Parmesan cheese for a rich and salty umami flavor bomb. Plus, who doesn't love mashed potatoes?

Sticky Ginger Cake with Caramelized White Chocolate Buttercream

This Sticky Ginger Cake with Caramelized White Chocolate Buttercream is so gingery, moist, sweet, and delicious!

This ginger cake with caramelized white chocolate buttercream is loaded with so many gingerbread-y flavors, including molasses, brown sugar, cinnamon, powdered ginger, and even homemade stem ginger syrup.

Bittersweet Chocolate Caramel Pecan Tarts

These Bittersweet Chocolate Caramel Pecan Tarts are decadent and delicious. They are seriously elegant, and perfect for a small party or a romantic dinner for two.

This recipe for chocolate caramel pecan tarts makes two 4 inch tarts. It's up to you as to how many servings that is. I like a quarter piece, and Mr. Kitchen can easily polish off half a tart (he has the skinny gene). The recipe can also be easily scaled and adapted for a muffin tin or a larger tart. Just bring your geometry skills.

Red Clam Chowder with Garlicky Saltine Garnish

This red clam chowder is incredibly delicious on its own, but I am so in love with how the saltine, parsley, and garlic flavor bomb thickens and flavors the soup when it is added as a garnish.

This red clam soup is a lighter version of clam chowder. It's loaded with clam flavor, including whole clams, chopped clams, and clam juice.

Vietnamese Beef Stew {Bò Kho}

Vietnamese Beef Stew, or Bò Kho, is a delicious stew of beef and root vegetables flavored with unexpected amazing herbs and spices.

Vietnamese beef stew is probably derived from the French pot-au-feu. It's also similar to American beef stew, but with Asian herbs and spices. In the northern part of Vietnam, it is often served for breakfast. It is also served on baguettes (banh mi bò kho), another remnant of the French occupation.