Fave alla Romana - Whole Fresh Fava Bean Saute' Roman Style!

When fava beans are freshly picked, you can eat the whole bean (no peeling the skin around the bean) - if you picked them within a few days you can even pop freshly shelled favas in your mouth!  As they age, the membrane becomes tough and bitter - and then...

Is your cook top sabotaging the pressure cooker?

Each cook top has its own quirks. The speed of induction and sluggishness of electric cook tops can affect the performance of the pressure cooker. Here's how to get the best from your pressure cooker in any situation.

The dirty little secret of the "industry" is...

The Stinking Rose - perfectly roasted garlic in 20 minutes!

Delicious, perfectly "roasted" and caramelized garlic in just 5 minutes under pressure and 5 more under the broiler - not an hour in the oven!

Mexican Pressure Cooker Recipes: Chocoflan - Impossible Cake!

This Mexican flan is three layers of delicious excitement. A husky caramel, a sweet flan and fluffy chocolate cake. Two of the layers siwtch places during cooking - this cake is as much fun to eat as it is to make. 
Don't miss the step-by-step photos.

Reader Recipe: Yellow split pea and calabash squash curry

A few readers of this website are professional chefs - and I couldn't resist asking one to contribute to up the ante from our usual home-cooked fare to add a little adventure to our pressure cookers. Armed with a preview of the tamale pressure cooking technique she marched right into her kitchen and created an original recipe to share.

Jen writes her blog, Diary of a Knifethrower, like nobody's watching- but once you get a peek her writing reels you in like her dishes.

Mexican Pressure Cooker Recipes: Hot Tamales!!

A pressure cooker is a fantastic steam-producing machine - the perfect tool to use to cook traditionally steamed foods, like tamales,  in minutes not hours.

Some hip recipes are spontaneous are written and photographed just minutes after the ingredients are spotted at the market and smuggled home while others, like these tamales, require a lot of planning, research and actual smuggling.

Love it! Crema Catalana - Spain's Creme Brulee

This Spanish dessert has been adapted to the pressure cooker Bain Marie method and will yield the same results as the original that has to be carefully and constantly stirred over an open flame - without any risk of curdling the eggs or worrying whether this custard will set.

Mexican Pressure Cooker Recipes: frijoles - not re-fried beans

Re-fried beans, much like carnitas, are usually cooked twice (boiled and then fried). Your pressure cooker can infuse flavor while boiling; so, let's switch this classic recipe around to capture more flavor in less time and (best of all) with fewer pans to wash!

5 Ways To Pressure Cook Eggs!

Happy Easter, Passover or Spring from my whole family, to yours. If you're looking for more eggy ideas to use in your celebrations... try one of these!

Mexican Pressure Cooker Recipes: Carnitas - Pulled Pork

Pressure cooker Carnita is fast, delicious, and best of all can be used in a myrad of traditional Mexican recipes and modern interpretations, like these lettuce cups.

Reader Recipe: Mike's Yucatan pressure cooker "pit cooked" pork

Since my carnitas recipe was inspired by Mexican cookery, I bring you second pork recipe today that is authentically Mexican in every way except one... it's pressure cooked instead of being steamed in a pit.

When Mike, the dad behind Dad Cooks Dinner, was running out of time to get dinner ready, he reached for his pressure cooker - digging a pit in his lawn was never really an option.