A food blog from Chicago about keeping it simple in the kitchen
Most of my traffic related to my pressure cooked ham recipes are clustered around three different times: the Thanksgiving Ham, the Christmas Ham and the Easter Ham. Even if your leftover bone-in ham isn’t related to some sort of religious occasion, you might still be wondering what can be made […]
If you love the earthy, nutty, salty, umami packed flavor of fresh parmesan, then you’ve surely done your best to grate a chunk of parmesan down to the rind and get every last bit. But what do you do with leftover parmesan rinds? While I’ve heard some people eat them, […]
Make awesome Pulled Pork that doesn’t need any added BBQ sauce in just over an hour! Your Pressure Cooker (or Instant Pot) does all the work. Read more to find out how
If there’s one recipe that everyone should make one time from scratch, it’s the classic Beef Burgundy. It’s also one of the more time consuming recipes around, so I was looking for a way to save time. The answer is to make beef burgundy in a pressure cooker, instead of […]
Without a doubt, this is the 8 Minute Abs of the beef brisket world. You’re likely aware that, if you’ve read any beef brisket recipes, a smoked brisket takes anywhere from 8 to 14 hours. What if you could get the same tender, smokey meat in 90 minutes? Read on… […]
Who loves pulled pork? Who loves waiting 8 hours for it to be ready in a slow cooker? After somewhat successfully converting other slow cooker recipes for a pressure cooker, I set out to do the same with pulled pork. This wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. […]
Have you ever finished off a spiral cut ham and wondered how to turn it into an amazing soup? That was me after the holidays. Use leftover ham and a pressure cooker to make ham stock and then a pressure cooker ham and lentil soup. If there’s one great comfort […]
For a couple of weeks this summer, our CSA was delivering a crazy amount of fresh sweet corn each week. And since there’s only so much corn on the cob we could eat, I sought out a good corn chowder recipe. As I was also snacking from a huge tub […]
You may wonder why in the world you would need corn stock. It never occurred to me either until I set off in a quest to make an excellent bowl of corn chowder and was struggling with getting enough corny flavor. The first batch I made was with water as the […]
Between starting a new job, moving to a new house and a couple of other factors, I’ve been away from the blog for about a month. And actually, I really haven’t been cooking all that much either. So now that the kitchen is unpacked, I welcomed a long weekend to […]