There are a couple of things I don’t cook – either out of fear or lack of know how!

I found a couple recipes – one in real simple and one in cooking light that had a pork shoulder or another name i found out – boston butt… And it looked tasty… so i figured, let’s try this!

Last week I saw – pork shoulder 1.67 a pound – woot!!

The butchers are amazingly helpful and helped me figure out what i needed and made me feel like less of an idiot when i didn’t know that boston butt was indeed pork shoulder

Sweet and Spicy Asian Pork Shoulder

Ingredients:

1/2 cup soy sauce (low sodium)
1/2 cup brown sugar
4 tablespoons garlic chili (recipe says 1-2 – but we like spice)
1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
1 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder
kosher salt and pepper
2 1/2 pound pork shoulder – trimmed of excess fat and cut into 2 inch pieces (i forgot to cut it up, and it all worked out great too)
1 medium head bok choy – thinly sliced

Preparation:

In a 4-6 quart slow cooker, combine the soy sauce, sugar, chili-garlic sauce, ginger, five-spice powder, pepper and salt.
Add pork and toss to coat. Cook, covered, until the pork is tender, on high for 4-5 hours or on low for 7-8 hours
Skim off and discard any fat from the pork.
Remove the pork to a plate, add the bok choy – until heated through 2-4 minutes.