Happy successes with my new Instant Pot!
8 years ago
After my initial foray into boiling water (yay! success!), last night, I made "Cathy's Ribs" or Ribs a la Cathy (BIG success!), followed by a Hong Kong egg custard from Amy and Jacky's site (yummy success!). Amy & Jacky's
Today, I made a whole chicken. Here's a photo of the chicken cooling off (it's very tender), and the broth cooling a bit in the IP. I'm going to de-fat the broth and add veggies and bones and a bit of lemon juice and pressure cook it again for my take on bone broth.
Gosh, I sure like my new toy! there are some more recipes I plan to try that were posted on my earlier thread. Earlier thread
Here are some photos of the food that was mentioned above.
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all my potted citrus happy except my lime - any ideas?
Comments (10)Westgirl, photos are helpful :-) Just upload them to Photobucket, then find your photo, float your mouse over it, and then click on the HTML code to copy it to your Windows clipboard. Then, just right click in the body of your message and select "Paste". That will paste the HTML code into the body of your message, and your photos will be embedded right into your message. I suspect not warm enough, and maybe too wet. Key Limes are the least hardy of any citrus. You're much better off with a Bearss lime, which has some lemon in it genetics, and much, MUCH more cold tolerant. I don't even bother growing Key limes where I live, here's a photo of a big bunch of Bearss limes we just picked: (That's a Valentine pummelo on top of the limes, btw.) Check out the roots carefully and see if you've got root rot going on. If so, try to trim away the decaying roots, and repot carefully. Give it as much sunlight as possible - bring it outside while it's warm, then inside at night. Watch the moisture in your mix, and it may make it. Patty S....See MoreInstantPot?
Comments (7)A lot of people find themselves saying "InstaPot." :>) For additional information on use of and recipes for InstantPots, have you seen Laura Pazzaglia's site, hippressurecooking.com? You can find a ton of prior threads on InstantPots by google/whatever searching with strings like "gardenweb + instantpot," "hungryonion + instantpot," "egullet + instantpot," and "chowhound + instantpot." There also is a thread on the title question on chowhound at the moment, too, if you have not already seen it....See MoreSanta came early! Instant pot! Tips?
Comments (21)Nancy - freezing a loaf bread / muffins to then seal in a vac bag isn't so easy for me. I don't have the space in the freezer to put on a pan and slide into the freezer. I see pioneer woman doing that - but she has a big one and it usually has an empty shelf for her to slide it. preplanned I'm sure. my little frzr space is jam packed with lots of things I don't even recognize anymore. am thinking of dumping it all out and starting over. I do freeze bread slices. I can fit 3 slices into a baggie and then put all of those into a gal size freezer bag. I put waxed paper between the slices. comes in handy when I've run out of bread and really want some toast but haven't been to the store. I'm about to do that again with the half loaf I have out, before it gets too old. while in W today I took time to check a few things. 1 was the size of a whole chicken. I only have a 3 qt iP. but I didn't have my tape measure with me to measure them. will have to put it back in my purse and measure their chickens on my next trip. I saw a 5 lb one and it looked like it'd be too big. I have read of people using even a 3 lb chicken in the iP. will look for one of those next time and measure it. I also looked at their FS machines. they had 1 for about 60.00 - it looked small and basic (my speed). and they had one that was about 170.00. It was huge and looked very complicated. I just need a small basic one for the little I'll do. I guess every 5 yrs isn't so bad when you're really using it continually like you must do. I don't think I'd need to use it more than once or twice a month for a few things. 2 chicken breasts can last me a month to 6 wks. I might be using more now since I started sharing it with my furgirl. I usually cut a chicken breast into strips and then put 3-4 strips in a baggie and roll it up after each strip and put all the baggies into a freezer bag. that way they don't stick together and I can just pull out 1 strip at a time. 1 strip is usually enough to make chicken salad for 1-1.5 sandwiches for me and I only eat half a sandwich for a meal. I can pull out just 1 to chop into rice and veggies for a meal. I usually put maybe 3 chopped up into chicken noodle soup. I'm not a big meat eater....See MoreInstant Pot Silicone ring
Comments (12)have you taken apart the filter thingy and the valve parts to clean them yet? could be something is in there from previous cooking. keep one of your new rings for things like cheesecake and yogurt. Also, after using it, store the lid upside down so air can get to it. there are lots of threads on IP FB page on how to de - odorize the ring. most say nothing helps, then a few say it did help their ring. I bought a pkg of spares right away to have on hand....See More
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