Pork recipes

Filipino lumpia packed with ground pork, shrimp, mushrooms, and crunchy water chestnuts, rolled tight and fried until golden and crisp. Served hot with a tangy sweet and sour dipping sauce.

Shrimp and pork stir-fried with cellophane noodles, dried mushrooms, and sherry in a wok. A quick Chinese-style noodle dish that soaks up savory mushroom broth.

Cantonese-style fried rice loaded with shrimp, char siu pork, chicken, peas, and eggs. Seasoned with soy sauce, oyster sauce, and optional shrimp paste for serious wok flavor.

Try something new for dinner with this authentic Chinese dish that calls for prawns, chinese mushrooms and succulent pork.

Cambodian-style roasted eggplant topped with spiced ground pork, shrimp, fish sauce, and a fiery homemade lime sauce. Bold Southeast Asian flavors, ready in 30 minutes.

Pork scallops in a quick white wine and lemon pan sauce scented with parsley, basil, thyme, and oregano. Thin cutlets that cook in minutes for an Italian-style weeknight dinner in 30 minutes.

Thai Makhua Phao Song Kruang: flame-charred eggplant topped with a savory stir-fried pork and prawn mixture seasoned with fish sauce, fermented soybeans, and garlic. Authentic smoky Thai eggplant dish.

Pork cubes marinated in five spice and sherry, wok-seared, then clay pot braised with brown bean sauce, dried orange peel, ginger, and fresh oysters. Cantonese surf-and-turf at its finest.

I prepared this sans the pork as I had none. I added frozen peas, some fresh diced carrot and rinsed and drained bean sprouts. YUM!

Hawaiian laulau with pork shoulder and salmon wrapped in luau leaves and ti leaves, steamed for 3 to 4 hours. A traditional island dish with just four ingredients.

Laulau with pork and salted butterfish wrapped in luau and ti leaves, baked low and slow until fork-tender. A simplified oven version of this traditional Hawaiian dish that serves nine.

Shrimp with lobster sauce, the Chinese-American takeout classic that contains no lobster at all. Shrimp simmered with ground pork and fermented black beans in a savory, egg-laced sauce. Ready in about 30 minutes.

Mahalia Jackson's okra gumbo, a soulful Louisiana feast of crab, shrimp, beef, ham, sausage, and chicken in a tomato-okra base, built on a from-scratch shrimp-shell broth. Big-batch comfort, ladled over rice.

Try a new fish dinner this summer with this succulent recipe that will become one of your favorites for years to come.

New England clam chowder made the proper way with whole clams steamed open, salt pork rendered, and a milk-flour finish whisked in at the end. Pennsylvania-style chowder with a creamy thick body.

Manhattan-style red clam chowder with fresh-steamed clams, salt pork, tomatoes, and thyme. The tomato-broth chowder New England purists love to argue about.