I love it when a foodie plan comes together! Like coming across this recipe for shrimp risotto in The Great Big Pressure Cooker Book and learning how to make risotto in a pressure cooker in the Craftsy class Make the Most of Your Pressure Cooker with Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough. It all kind of happened at the same […]
Instant Pot Old School Swiss Steak with Mushroom Gravy
I tried out another recipe from Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough’s cookbook The Great Big Pressure Cooker Book: 500 Easy Recipes for Every Machine, Both Stovetop and Electric. They inspire me so much by their online class Make The Most Of Your Pressure Cooker at Craftsy, I wanted to make dinner in my Instant Pot! The Recipe You are going to need a […]
The Great Big Pressure Cooker Book Smoky Red Curry Chicken Thighs
I was so excited to discover The Great Big Pressure Cooker Book: 500 Easy Recipes for Every Machine, Both Stovetop and Electric by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarborough that when I found out about it, I wrote them immediately for a copy to review! Please note that even though this dish was made in a pressure cooker you can […]
Canada Beef’s Bistro Beef and Beer Stew
Family Ties to Beef My great-grandfather on my mom’s side of the family was a butcher in Jelgava, Latvia. My Auntie Laima told me that my grandma actually left school for a while to work at the butcher shop and learned a ton about cooking with meat. My mom said that her grandfather would just shake […]
Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Pierogies
Chatelaine’s Easy Vietnamese Beef Pho
I came across this recipe for Chatelaine’s Easy Vietnamese beef pho and was intrigued. I have eaten this delicious beef noodle dish a few times since I moved to Vancouver and am even taking the Craftsy class Vietnamese Classics: Pho, Noodles & Beyond with Andrea Nguyen. The fact that there is a class dedicated to this particular dish shows […]
Pressure Cooker Devilled Chicken
Life has gotten crazy and I have been looking to the past for inspiration. A little bit of comfort with a bit of contemporary flare. I bought this 1974 copy of Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook Completely New Revised Edition at Value Village. It was such a giant treasure trove of retro food, I could not wait […]