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And then there is the potato that exploded in the microwave. You know, where you forget to prick the potato and.....who knew that a potato had so many tiny, tiny particles? Not that I would know anything about that, of course.

Thank you. I cook these things every now and again for deviled eggs and have made note of how to cook them in the IP. ONE other question - how easy were they to peel?

@kayb how did you cook the quail eggs?

@Anna N That looks really good.

How do you cook your bok choy? I really like the taste of it but the leaf part always comes our slimy so I have given up on cooking it.

@sartoric here you go: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/mango-salsa-4208

I assume by bony end of the drumstick you are referring to the foot end, not the thigh end? So you just whack that end off?

Mango salsa. Love mango salsa with fish.

I haven't made anything particularly interesting lately but tonight we had mushroom risotto with seared scallops which was pretty good. The risotto was cooked in the Instant Pot.

I need to get out more.

Chicken knuckles?

So what is the pictured dish called chicken katsu?

It 's two posts up from yours.

Anna and Kerry, that looks like a fine lunch. The chicken katsu - what part of the chicken did they use?

@Shelby I tried this today and it came out exactly the way I wanted it with a nice dry type of yolk. Thanks so much for helping me out. @rotuts thank you for chiming in as well. I would have tried your method as well but I didn't want any "jel" in my yolk.

Below is a link to the Italian Wedding Soup recipe. I didn't follow it exactly in that I doubled the amount of celery, onions and carrots. I left the rest of the quantities the same. As for the meatballs, I got lazy and just used mild Italian sausage meat which I made into very small balls, about the size of my thumb nail. I think I got about 60 out of a pound of meat. I stuck the meatballs in a 325 oven for about 20 minutes then added them to the soup at the same time as the pasta. http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/italian-wedding-soup-recipe.html

I tried making some hard boiled eggs in the IP today. I followed my niece's instructions which was 1 cup water, 5 minutes on steam, instant release and straight into ice water. What I got were yolks that were solid only around the edges. The centers were runny, but thick runny, if that makes sense. I did search this forum but got so many posts showing up I'd still be reading them after Christmas. Therefore, I decided to take the quick way out: how do you use your IP to get hard boiled eggs?

No, it wouldn't do any good. She and my dad probably had that conversation. He was an egg farmer with around 6,000 laying hens.

@chromedome Here's one Canadian, from Ontario, chiming in. I like over easy vs sunny side up as I don't like, no wait, I detest slimy whites. It has nothing to do with eggs looking back at me. Even ordering over easy in a diner type resto, and specifying no slimy whites, I still get them served that way. I have been known to send them back. As an aside, my sister won't eat eggs that have double yolks (she says she doesn't want to eat the babies!!!) nor will she eat brown eggs but can't explain why..

@Shelby I made these yesterday and this is a test batch as I wanted to see how much we would like the spicier filling versus sweet. From left to right the fillings were crab apple and jalapeño jelly, habenero, jalapeño and apricot jelly, and bakeapple jam, these last dusted wih a bit of icing sugar. We liked these very much and I've saved the recipe. As I normally do with cookie dough, I will roll these into balls and freeze most of them as I like to bake only a few at a time. I made a caramel sauce the other day and am going to bake a few more today and fill them with that. I think filling them with dulce de leche would be good too. Don't know if I'm going to get 24 cookies though as I couldn't stop eating the batter.

I just found this topic and here is my contribution - Italian Wedding Soup. Made this yesterday.

Over easy and poached tie for first place. No thank you to slimy whites, yes please to runny yolks. Second place goes to hard boiled eggs, and there is no third, fourth or fifth place.

@Shelby Thank you. Just took the butter out.

@Shelby Wow, those look good. I never would have thought to put a spicy jam in them. I had a recipe years ago for thumbprint cookies that made really good cookies but I lost the recipe and haven't found a good one since. Any chance you would share your recipe?

Thank you, Shelby. Not knowing the first thing about hunting, I found this very interesting. I was especially happy to see all the parts being used.