When I wrote my pressure cooking cookbook The New Fast Food: The Veggie Queen Pressure Cooks Whole Food Meals in Less than 30 Minutes there weren’t very many electric pressure cookers out in the world, and there certainly weren’t any that got my attention. Many of them had nonstick inner pots and that holds very little appeal for me. Then someone told me about the
Adjust Pressure Cooking Times When Doubling or Tripling a Recipe?
When timing in the pressure cooker, you do not need to adjust the time when doubling or tripling a recipe. The pressure cooker does that automatically.
Make Food, Not Bombs: Using a Pressure Cooker the Right Way
I hate tragedy. It brings out the worst in me. I get melancholy and morose, go inward and want to hide. And this time is no different except that the people responsible for the bombings in Boston not only attacked other human beings who were out running for their health and life, but have now put a crimp in what I do: teach people how
Pressure Cooker Curried Winter Pear and Squash Soup
I have been making this soup for a very long time. I used to make it without the pressure cooker, which is easy to do. When I did that, I would roast or bake the squash first and then scoop it out into the soup. With the pressure cooker, I can just cut the squash up and add it to the soup. Either way, it’s
You and Your Pressure Cooker: It’s a Relationship
Fellow Registered Dietitian, Dina Aronson, MS, RD, saw me this past summer at Vegetarian Summerfest in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. She walked up and said (and I am paraphrasing here), “I want to thank you for encouraging me to get a pressure cooker. It took me a little while to develop a relationship with it but now things are great. It has really changed my life.” I
Pressure Cooker Soup Stock
If you found a new pressure cooker waiting for you under your Christmas tree or Hanukkah bush, then I can help you so that you take it out of the box and use it. My story is that the first pressure cooker I bought in 1986 came home and sat, waiting for me to use it. On Day 13 of a 14 day return policy,
Using Your Pressure Cooker for Slow Cooker Recipes
Kathy Hester, author of The Vegan Slow Cooker cookbook, gave me a chance to write about using the pressure cooker for some of her slow cooker recipes. Not one to turn down a challenge, I went for it. It turns out that you can easily use slow cooker recipes in your pressure cooker with some adjustments. As long as the recipe uses liquid, the pressure
Pressure Cooked Sweet Potatoes, Tempeh, and Kale
Simply pressure cooked vegetables are amazingly tasty, transforming just a few ingredients into a magical dish.
Pressure For Meals
Some bloggers concoct recipes because they have a keen desire to publish and photograph them. I have a keen desire to eat — at least 3 meals and a number of snacks a day. Since this is a blog about pressure cooking, I am not going to mention any raw food that I eat, but I do that, too. Today, I did a take off
My First Date with the Fagor Chef Pressure Cooker
Those of you who know me and my cookbook The New Fast Food: The Veggie Queen Pressure Cooks Whole Food Meals in Less than 30 Minutes know that on page 12, I discuss my boyfriends: they are my pressure cookers. I show a photo of The Fagor Chef even though this particular pressure cooker just entered the world a short time ago (mid-May 2012). The