A food blog from Chicago about keeping it simple in the kitchen
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 […]
Risotto is a popular dish in our house. It’s creamy, it’s warming, it involves a bottle of wine to drink while you slowly stir the rice. And since it takes on flavors so well, it has endless possibilities for how it’s prepared. Since traditional way is labor intensive, I found […]
If you’ve ever bought a refrigerated pre-cooked ham, then you know that the suggested cook time to warm it back up is based on the number of pounds, and could take hours. You get a warm ham, but it’s also usually pretty dry in the middle. Now, if you pressure […]
While I’m a huge fan of the big, hearty, chewy grains like barley, farro and wheat berries, I’m not as big of a fan of the long cooking times. Here’s a very simple recipe for cooking barley that uses a pressure cooker, or an Instant Pot, to cut the cooking […]
Fans of steel cut oats know that while they make for a high fiber breakfast, they aren’t the quickest thing to prepare in the morning. You might as well make risotto for breakfast, since you’ll spend about the same amount of time with the prepping and the stirring and the […]