The "grains" are springy, the zucchini...
season: spring
Pressure cooker recipes featuring ingredients that are only available in the spring.
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Pressure Cooker Horchata – Mexican Sweet Rice Drink
Although rice is usually soaked, the pressure cooker hurries the process along so that you can get in 1 minute what would ordinarily take 8 hours. This drink is refreshing, lightly sweetened with...
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Millet, Veggie and Lentil One Pot – recipe & strategy
Jill Nussinow (aka The Veggie Queen) shares her hip strategies for preparing a satisfying vegan one pot meal, along with a recipe from her latest cookbook: Vegan Under Pressure - Perfect...
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Pressure Cooker Pasta with Broccoli & Sausage One Pot
This pressure cooker conversion of a classic Italian pasta dish promises creamy broccoli, crispy sausage and al dente pasta. This dish is a flavorful one pot meal that...
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Easy Posole One Pot – pork & hominy stew makeover
When researching Posole it became pretty clear that, although this dish is not complicated, it requires lots of steps (and cleanup). I removed all of the extra pots and making this recipe not only faster but easier, too!
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Asparagus Spring Risotto & making micro stock
Asparagus is nature's welcome mat to spring vegetables. They're nutty, greeny, nutritions and require very little prep.
Personally, my family adores the wild asparagus but it's very hard...
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Old is New, again: Kamut, Arugula & Orange Salad
Kamut has a long, varied and mostly forgotten past. Theories of its origins boil down to two: an Egyptian staple in ancient times or, as it is still used today in Iran, camel feed. Since my...
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Hasselback Pork Roast with Apples, Coppa & Sage
This is a roast that will turn heads and delight taste buds. The ingredient list is very short and there is very little prep, too!
I took my cue for this recipe from the popular hasselback...
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Mission Artichoke: Creamy dip from scratch!
This artichoke dip is unique in several ways - beyond being pressure cooked! It's made with fresh artichokes, not marinated hearts, and does not contain a single drop of mayonnaise or cream. ...
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Chicory Bittery? Not!
Chicory, also known as Italian Dandelion, is a tricky green to cook - there are many ways to do it wrong and serve-up a dish of in-edible bitter and twiggy greens. <span aria-label="Continue...
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Mother-in-law’s Pressure Cooked Stuffed Artichokes
Margherita is my Southern Italian mother-in-law who, in typical fashion, took over our kitchen during her recent visit. She made Lucanian specialties from the little-known Italian...
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Minimalist Strawberry Jam: Two Ingredients + Pressure Cooker
This strawberry jam is not the same red-hot pectin-thickened sugar-filled jam you find in the grocery store. It's better. It's dark, tangy, sweet and intoxicatingly floral. These are...
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Spring Roast with Cauliflower & Potato Mash Onepot
Spring is almost here and I just can't wait. In giddy anticipation here's another one pot meal that is low prep, fast and...
..dare I say it?!? Healthy.
We used a very lean cut of pork,...
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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...
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Whole Beets: White Beet and Garlic Saute’
Fresh beets are two vegetables in one. Delicious greens and earthy tuber. You can pressure cook the beet and then wilt the greens using the residual heat from the cooker. Sauteing them...
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Braisen! Pressure Cooked Artichoke, Pancetta and Egg Sauce
The luxurious and silky Carbonara sauce, dotted with smoky pancetta, helps the artichoke's naturally nutty and sweet flavor bloom.
Carbonara is a fairly new traditional dish in Italy -...
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JA! Beer Braised Cabbage with Bacon – Kohl mit Bier und Speck
When I brought home this cabbage, I remembered the Austrian farmer's market from a few years ago behind Graz's Opera House at this time of year.
The ground was not yet covered with snow,...
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T3: Tomato, Tomato, Tomato Soup!
This pressure cooker recipe marks the end of all other tomato soups!
Although tomato soup is American, I made a version that exemplifies Italian cookery: Exalting one ingredient and making it...
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Jennadene’s Pressure Cooker "Baked" Orange and Date Ricotta Cake
Jennadene's an active participant on our Facebook page, mother of 5 sons and lives in a country town on the River Murray in South Australia. She tells us that her favorite... -
Prosciutto-wrapped Asparagus Canes
Super easy and fast to make, pressure steaming the prosciutto and the asparagus together give each a more intense flavor! Though asparagus should usually be cooked at low pressure, a quick burst...
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Modern Venice: Perfectly steamed mussels (Cozze Serenissime)
A unique appetizer that continues cooking right in front of you! The mussels are steamed for one minute in the pressure cooker and served on a bed of radicchio and spinach that wilts in the...
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Arborio Rice Pudding with Mandarin Coins
This deceivingly simple recipe traveled through three countries to get here.
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Pressure Cooker Steamed and Fried Artichoke Blooms – yum!
I swear I made these before seeing Julia Robert's new movie,
"Cook, Eat, Pray""Eat, Pray, Love" - which is full of beautiful food shots when she is in Rome, not far from my house!... -
Spicy Cauliflower & Citrus Salad Pressure Cooker Recipe
This side dish will brighten up your winter table. When my husband tasted it his eye-brows hit the ceiling. The spicy citrus vinaigrette gives this steamed vegetable side dish bim, bam and boom!...
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15 Minute New England Clam Chowder
OK, if you use fresh clams it's 5 more minutes but who wouldn't want a chowder from scratch in under half an hour? You saute' the bacon and onions for 5 minutes, pressure cook the... -
Cauliflower and Fennel Velouté with Gorgonzola Garnish
With just enough fennel to add a little liquorish flavor without overpowering the whole soup! Making creamy, thick, soups takes just minutes of cooking under pressure. With just 5 minutes of...
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Pressure Cooker Recipe: Drunken Peas in a Pressure Cooker Pot
Stewed peas are "out" because no one cooks a vegetable until it's brown, mushy and almost irecognizable anymore. We want green, al dente and delicious veggies! Stewing them in beer...
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Pressure Cooked Sweet & Sour Pearl Onion Antipasto
Cipolline Agrodolce Recipe
Sweet and tangy this appetizer can be made days in advance and left to macerate in the sweet and sour sauce to intensify... -
WATCH OUT!! Stinging Nettle Soup (Zuppa di Ortiche)
Spring is already coming here, outside of Rome, so why not forage in the wilds of your backyard or nearby woods for Nettles to make a creamy soup? It's my recipe for a guest post on...
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A Pressure Cooker Classic: Steamed Artichokes
Artichokes are the darlings of the pressure cooker's repertoire - tough, fibrous and tricky to get perfectly tender - the pressure cooker turns this seemingly un-approachable vegetable into a...