Anna N

No. I would have to say that hot sauce doesn't really figure very much in my eating patterns. That's not to say it might not be good. It just does not occur to me to buy it or to use it.

Me too!

You are absolutely entitled to your opinion and for you and your lifestyle the Instant Pot may not be a good fit. But you are decidedly in the minority not only of this demographic but apparently of a much larger demographic. Doesn't make you wrong and the rest of us right but it does make you decidedly different. And that can be a good thing. Cheers.

Another almost complete disaster today. I wanted to make the Chewy Cherry Oatmeal Cookies which is a Martha Stewart recipe. Followed the recipe to the letter. Made up 2 1/2 sheets of cookies. They spread and spread. Even now, hours and hours later, they have not set up at all. So remembering my last disaster I made up my last two sheets and chilled them for a full hour before baking them. I am still not happy with them but at least they are set up. I am puzzled. Recipe

But of course it is. Anyway it serves you right for attempting to enable me!

You and me both. I have just not worked up much of an appetite for pea butter.

So of course I had to find out what Bäco it's all about. Joseph Centeno seems to have many recipes on the Internet though not necessarily from the book. They are exciting and imaginative. Some of them certainly rely on sub recipes, sometimes many sub recipes! Still it is calling out to me even though I know how limited I am as far as ingredients go. But I no longer feel compelled to believe I would cook from a recipe book. It is often enough if it just inspires me to get back into the kitchen. I am thinking you are an enabler!

I am convinced I dodged a bullet on the Jeremy Fox book. Everything I read about it made me think I would eventually buy it but it had two things against it: price and unavailability as a Kindle book. I thank whatever gods there be for these fortuitous things. The more I read about it, the more I know it is not my kind of book. Six Seasons on the other hand is definitely my kind of book. Not that I have made a great deal from it (OK let's be honest, I've made nothing yet). But there are a lot of bookmarks. As for the Patricia Wells book. Nah. It's a book I would have enjoyed 10 or 15 years ago. Edited to add that I see the Paula Wolfert book Unforgettable is available for pre-order on Amazon.ca. This is the cookbook/biography written by Emily Kaiser Thelin. This will definitely go on my wish list.

A bit messy to eat but tasty nevertheless. Tomato and cheese sandwich with one of the tomatoes that arrived with the corn that I had yesterday.

I don't think you can do anything different. You need to turn it off and back on again in order to adjust the heat level as far as I have learned.

There is hardly a better medium to grow nasties than stock! It is simply not worth taking a chance.

Yes! That is a cabin. Not as so many of them seem to be these days, a transplanted McMansion. We had a similar place, built not much later than this one. In Ontario, of course.

Oh no! Whew. At least the Crystal sauce is still there.

Two overcooked poached eggs on homemade toast spread with muhammara. (So far I have found nothing that improves poached eggs on buttered toast.)

Toast (made from homemade milk and honey bread) in the Cuisinart. Darkness level 4. Today or tomorrow I will attempt to make a sugar-free ( flour, salt, water and yeast) bread and toast it for the sake of comparison.

Thanks for the feedback. I was certainly not advocating for it. Just making others aware of its existence.

Milk and honey bread for the Thermomix. I chose this particular bread to discover how it toasts in the Cuisinart steam oven. Between the sugars in the milk and the honey it should toast well. Not sure I will do it tonight but will certainly do it in the morning.

Breakfast as it was always meant to be before somebody thought that any kind of cereal would actually hit the spot.

No I haven't I only discovered it today but I did notice that it has some recipes from someone I trust: Barbara Schieving of the Pressure Cooking Today site.

Mine has moved on to a better home where it is much appreciated. My bachelor son is loving it.

Well it is my cookbook library (Kindle), my recipe file (now in OneNote), my Joule controller, my unit converter (Imperial to metric and others), my calculator, my Googler for new recipes; explanations of ingredients; incredible inspiration, etc. etc. and perhaps most of all my connection to everyone on eG. Is it a kitchen product?

To those of you who are addicted to your Instant Pot and your smart phone there is now an app for the Instant Pot. Don't know if it is available for an android but if you are an iPhone user then you can just search for Instant Pot in the App Store. It is basically a database of recipes.

A friend dropped by with some fresh tomatoes and some fresh corn. I had managed to miss lunch and was hangry. Real food fast. Using the no muss, no fuss microwave method I was ready to dig into this within six minutes. Unfortunately it was still too hot so I had to wait an extra two minutes. Click I cheat by cutting off the end of the corn before microwaving it.

Finally got around to making muhammara so breakfast this morning was toast with cream cheese and the muhammara.

I was given a duck breast a few days ago and it is in the sous vide now - 58°C for 45 minutes before being seared in a cast-iron pan.