Pressure Cooking

well. after wanting one for a while and getting one for Christmas, I FINALLY used my pressure cooker over the weekend. Wow! Why did I wait so long to use it. I made Mexican Shredded Beef with a beef chuck roast and it came out awesome. My husband said it was the best burrito he ever had - and he likes the taco trucks! High Praise!! I served it with Mexican Rice and heated up canned Refried Beans. Now I have to make the beans from scratch using the pressure cooker!


Link below to recipe posted in online recipe book:
http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/sho...94#post3687794

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Kathy

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I also Love my Pressure cooker. Great for when You forget to take something out of the freezer too since you can put frozen meats in there too.
My favorite is boneless, skinless chicken breasts, canned black beans, corn, & a jar of homemade salsa. Wonderful served with rice, etc. Leftover I even like on lettuce to make a salad with some shredded cheese sprinkled on top.
Best ribs come out of my pressure cooker too I think.

Good to know on the frozen - wasn't sure on that and hadn't looked it up yet... Thanks!!

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Kathy

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. -Billy Graham

I need to use mine more... I am literally afraid of it. I guess I just need practice. But I need a place to start and a lot of recipes do not call for 6-mos-old roosters which is what I have a lot of in my freezer! Does anyone have a good pressure cooker cookbook I could maybe find via the library? Thanks!

One more question -- does anyone know how a pressure cooker does with pastured beef? The rule with grass-fed beef is slow and low -- any experience?

I purchased a bean/other legume mixture several years ago that came with a sprouting set. I never sprouted them and the jar sat in the cupboard for several years. Decided recently to use them in stews but they never cooked down to a soft stage. So I thought I would try out my recent pressure cooker acquisition on the beans. They came out perfect.

Someone also gave me a freshly killed rooster recently. I cooked him in the pressure cooker, too. Came out nice and tender and he went into the chicken broth I made from his bones and feet.

I, too, had never used a pressure cooker before. Never owned one before but got an old Presto recently at an auction. I looked for the manual online but it wasn't at the Presto site. I emailed Presto asking for the manual--got a reply the next day asking for my address and I received a copied manual for that particular model Presto pressure cooker two days later. Best customer service I ever got from any company!!!!

And speaking of pressure cookers (actually pressure canners) if your pressure canner has a gauge, your county extension office may check the gauge for you free of charge. (Some offices do and some don't. Mine does.)

WHenever I have looked at pressure cooker cookbooks, they always talk about cooking things for X minutes at Y pounds of pressure. What are they talking about? How do you know what the poundage of your pressure is? It is all so daunting.

Snoozy, pressure cookers/canners have either a dial or a gauge for setting the pounds of pressure. It's quite simple, really.

Pressure cooking only appears daunting. Once you've done it, you'll want to use it all the time. It's one of the greatest kitchen time-savers you'll ever use. And what it does to a roast is amazing....they come out falling-apart tender.

I purchased an electric pressure cooker for my daughter as a Christmas present. She loves it, her neighbor asked to borrow it to try it out and now she wants one also. But she is going to have to buy her own. LOL

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