Another pressure cooker first that will save you loads of time (10 min pressure cooking vs. 60-90 simmering) and preserve lemon peels to use as home-made candy or to use in your...
pressure cooker technique
Special techniques or new ways of making things in the pressure cooker.
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Pressure Cooker “Baked” Apples – really easy!
This is one of those deceptively easy recipes - that took forever to figure out. Wanting to duplicate my mother's hour-long oven baked apple down to every detail slowed...
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Make Ricotta Cheese with the Instant Pot SMART, DUO, ULTRA (or any pot)
Ricotta does not need a pressure cooker- it can be made with any 'ol pot with lots of supervision and stirring - but the automated programs of Instant Pot makes the process soooo much...
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Hot Hot, Hot Chocolate Fondue!
Sometimes you've just got to try something to believe it. Melting chocolate in the pressure cooker is one of those things.
Using the pressure cooker to melt chocolate goes against...
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STEAMY! The New Christmas Pudding
This is not a recipe passed-down through my family or by an old friend - Italians don't have a Christmas Pudding tradition as is very common in the UK, Australia and a few American households....
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Short-cut Potatoes: bake potatoes in half the time!
Sometimes, a boiled potato won’t do. On a whim, and then over and over and over again, I tossed the potatoes in the pressure cooker to pre-cook them a bit while my oven was pre-heating. WOW!
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TART! Pressure cooking beans with acidic ingredients (plus recipe)
Until a couple of years ago I pressure cooked every recipe with an acidic ingredient twice. First, I pressure cooked the beans and then I added the “offending” ingredients and pressure cooked everything again to infuse
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Instant Tabasco – 1 minute in the pressure cooker!
Your pressure cooker can extract most of the the color and flavor from hot peppers in one minute at high pressure. This hot sauce is a bold, vivid red and the flavor is amazingly...
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PERFECT Pressure Cooker Rice – two easy ways!
Who needs a rice cooker when you can get perfect results from the pressure cooker! Here, we show you two ways to steam rice perfectly: The classic way, right in the pot that usually works for most pressure cookers; and, the Bain Marie way, also called pan in pot, for troublesome pressure cooker/cooktop combinations or to create a one-pot meal.
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Dulce de Leche! Pressure Cooked Condensed Milk
Dulce de Leche is sweetened condensed milk which has been caramelized in its own can. Usually simmered for up to three hours, the pressure cooker can do it in just 15 minutes- plus a wholly...