A food blog from Chicago about keeping it simple in the kitchen
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 […]
Just about everyone I’ve ever talked to about beets will 1) proclaim they’ve never liked them and then 2) effuse about how that all changed once they had roasted beets. Helping spread the word are the many restaurants that all tend to have some variation on a roasted beet salad […]
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 […]
So I’m reaching here by calling this a buying guide as it’s not really an objective review of the market. Instead, I’m going to share my research and thoughts for how I ultimately selected the pressure cooker that I currently own. Since I started posting about my new found pressure […]
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 […]