Miss Vickie's Big Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes
Author: Vickie Smith
The Ultimate Pressure-Cooker Cookbook
Nobody knows more about pressure cookers than Vickie Smith, creator of the leading pressure-cooker Web site, MissVickie.com. Now, at last, Miss Vickie has gathered all of her pressure-cooker wisdom into a book. Whether you're a pressure-cooker newcomer or a longtime fan, you'll find all the recipes, techniques, and tips you need for a lifetime of great pressure-cooker meals.
Miss Vickie's Big Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes is jam-packed with nearly 400 fast, tasty, foolproof recipes, ranging from one-pot meals like Chicken and Rice with Mushrooms to Sweet and Sour Pork, Navy Bean Soup, and Chocolate Malt Cheesecake. Miss Vickie's detailed recipe instructions and special techniques, such as "pan in pot" pressure cooking, guarantee that each dish comes out perfectly cooked—and perfectly delicious.
But Miss Vickie gives you more than just great recipes. Her book also provides in-depth guidance on every aspect of choosing and using a pressure cooker, including:
• A buyers' guide to modern pressure cookers
• Step-by-step pressure-cooker instructions
• Pressure-cooker safety
• Basic and advanced pressure-cooking techniques
• Common mistakes in pressure cookery
• Adapting recipes to the pressure cooker
• Tips, tricks, and troubleshooting
Offering hundreds of recipes that are proven to work—and proven delicious—plus plain-English answers to all of your pressure-cooker questions, Miss Vickie has created the single most useful pressure-cooker book ever published. It's a resourceyou'll turn to again and again as you explore the world of pressure-cooker possibilities and pleasures.
Publishers Weekly
Smith, founder of MissVickie.com, a highly trafficked Web site devoted to all things steam-pressured, compiles her expertise in a single tome, covering the history of pressure cookery from its inception in the 17th century to its resurgence today. Smith extols pressure cooking's benefits, including fuel efficiency, faster cooking time, reduced fats, higher levels of nutrient retention and the ability to create lower-cost one-pot meals. Several pages are devoted to exact cooking times for specific vegetables, meats, fish, beans and even pasta shapes. Though there are a fair number of recipes featuring legumes, for example, this cookbook is mainly geared to a meat-eating audience. As might be expected, a good deal are stewlike creations, but Smith covers eclectic ground with dishes like Italian Seasoned Veal Tortellini Stew; Walnut Chicken Braised in Pomegranate Juice; and Mexican Posole (pork stew with green chile and hominy). Outside of the one-pot meals are ragus, pilafs and pulled meats for sandwich stuffing. Smith even rounds up some intriguing desserts like Sweet Dumpling Flan with Caramel Sauce and a basic bread pudding with six variations. Eminently thorough and enlightening, Smith's cookbook is bound to please the beginner pressure cooker and aficionado alike. (Mar.)
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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments.Introduction.
The History of the Pressure Cooker.
The Benefits of Modern Pressure Cookers.
How Does It Do That Thing It Does?
Pressure-Cooking Techniques.
A Buyer's Gide to Modern Pressure Cookers.
Step-by-Step Pressure-Cooker Instructions.
Pressure-Cooker Safety.
Pressure: Getting It, Keeping It, Releasing It.
Basic Pressure-Cooking Techniques.
Advanced Pressure-Cooking Techniques.
Accessory Items.
Pressure-Cooker Cleaning and Maintenance.
Common Mistakes in Pressure Cookery.
Adapting Recipes to the Pressure Cooker.
Test Drive Your Pressure Cooker.
Water and Other Liquids.
Troubleshooting.
Tips and Tricks.
The Best-Kept Cooking Secret.
The Best Cuts of Meat for Pressure Cooking.
Dried Beans, Peas, and Legumes.
Pressure Cooking Pasta.
Pressure-Cooling Time Charts.
Manufacturers and Suppliers.
Beef.
Chicken.
Pork and Ham.
Lamb.
Fish and Seafood.
Beans and Legumes.
Rice.
Vegetables.
Desserts and Sweet Endings.
Fabulous Fruitcakes.
Bountiful Breakfasts.
Index.
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Glorious One-Pot Meals
Author: Elizabeth Yarnell
Elizabeth Yarnell's Glorious One-Pot Meals: A new, quick and healthy approach to Dutch oven cooking cookbook provides a patented cooking technique that balances both the need for quick and simple meals with the desire for healthy and tasty recipes. The Glorious One-Pot Meal method is unique in that it allows ingredients to retain their shape and integrity throughout the cooking process, unlike traditional one-pot meal methods such as crock-pot stews, casseroles, and stir-fries. Ingredients are infused with flavors and it makes no difference whether you start with fresh, frozen or canned foods as everything cooks in the same amount of time and emerges moist, tender and perfectly cooked. It's the ultimate method for making convenient and healthy dinners.
Each Glorious One-Pot Meal contains an entrŠ¹e, grains, and vegetable side dishes for a complete meal with minimal preparation or clean up. The Glorious One-Pot Meals cookbook includes more than just recipes; readers also receive grocery shopping tips and advice on stocking a pantry and freezer for convenient meal preparation. Glorious One-Pot Meals are perfect for the busy cook because each recipe requires, on average, fewer than 20 minutes to prepare and 45 minutes to bake in the oven.
Food Editor, Rocky Mountain News, November 30, 2005 - Marty Meitus
"Miraculously, not only is the meal done on time, but it's delicious. So delicious that within a matter or moments everyone has cleaned his plate."
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