Cooking under pressure has become my latest fixation. I’m in love with my yellow cooker.
the noise of its vent closing down, the silence of perfect pressure, the whoosh as I run cold water over its lid, encouraging release.
I’ve been making risottos from carnaroli rice and whole barley, meat stocks ready in an hour, smoky baked beans with ham hocks, and heavenly braises with shanks and tails.
Come see what this love tastes like on Saturday, or stay tuned here, for many pressure cooker experiments to come. xx
The Pleasures of Pressure Cooking
This class is suitable for meat eaters.
- When: Saturday 23rd June 2012, noon-2:30pm
- Where: Taste, 6 James Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
- Cost: $69
- Booking: call (07) 3103 7625 or email angela (at) thegoodsoup.com
Ange, pressure cookers are the best! My mother-in-law who is South Indian uses them for all her curries and they make everything so easy! Definitely the way forward. Looking forward to your stories. Wish I could taste, smell and see them in person. Love Essie
ah, dear Essie, it’ll be so lovely to have you back home soon! You are coming back, aren’t you, or did I imagine this fact?! I hope not! xx
Wish I could join you. I make marmalade in a pressure cooker with grapefruit skins, having first eaten the grapefruits. I cut up the skins, add a lemon , cover with water, add a large pinch of bicarbonate of soda and cook on high for 10 minutes. Then add the same volume of sugar and cook as usual. Lovely bitter marmalade.
Hi Audrey, and wow, I haven’t been game to make marmalade in the pressure cooker yet. It’s that lack of visibility issue that seems to be the stumbling block. I wonder when they’ll figure out how to make pressure cookers you can see into?
love love pressure cooking! so quick and easy and i wish more people knew about it. Great post! even though I know how I would still love to be in that class with you
Thanks dear Belle. xx
My mom uses pressure cooker every day ..almost everyday. I somehow don’t like using it much because of only one silly reason. I hate to clean it!
Your yellow pressure cooker looks so pretty
So many of our generation’s mums use pressure cookers, and they definitely coming back into fashion. And they’re not that hard to clean unless you burn the bottom! Actually, that happens quite a bit doesn’t it… well, if you do, then all you have to do is put it immediately on a pile of wet towels and all is fixed! I teach that in my pressure cooker class
those shanks look amazing!
Thanks Mel!