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Instant Pot at Work - A Little Help Please


Kerry Beal

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 No reason it couldn't work. If you google huevos rancheros in the slow cooker there are lots of recipes.  Why even Oprah has a recipe. 

Anna Nielsen aka "Anna N"

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3 hours ago, Anna N said:

 No reason it couldn't work. If you google huevos rancheros in the slow cooker there are lots of recipes.  Why even Oprah has a recipe. 

 

I'll definitely have to do that, because this entire concept is completely new to me.  My huevos rancheros start with a crispy corn tortilla, topped with some beans (either pot beans or refried), a freshly-fried egg, a ladle of salsa, and maybe a sprinkle of cheese.  Whole thing never takes me more than five minutes.  The runny egg yolk is pretty important. As is the crispy tortilla.

 

Have no idea how one could do either of those things in a slow cooker.

 

I am going to have to see what Oprah has to say about it.  Never really thought of her as a Mexican cook, but, you never know.  I'm sure curious.

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I don't understand why rappers have to hunch over while they stomp around the stage hollering.  It hurts my back to watch them. On the other hand, I've been thinking that perhaps I should start a rap group here at the Old Folks' Home.  Most of us already walk like that.

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I'd make huevos rancheros similar to Jaymes, with or without beans, with a bit of queso fresco on top of the salsa. Oprah's version seems like a baked omelette or a casserole, though huevos rancheros is probably the inspiration.

 

Eggs in Purgatory would work in a slow cooker, I think.  

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18 minutes ago, Kerry Beal said:

My suspicion is that mine will be a bastardized version.

 

 And wouldn't shakshuka work?

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Steamed artichokes. 

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2 hours ago, Kerry Beal said:

I'm a huge fan of artichokes - I've used my stove top pressure cooker for them most recently.

 

I too usually employ the pressure cooker.  Any idea why The Good Cook (and thus presumably Richard Olney) say not to steam?

 

For decades I took the advice and boiled in "stainless steel, enameled cast iron or tin-lined copper".  But artichokes are so hard to get tender that way.

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Sautéed some chorizo.

 

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Added some salsa.

 

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Eggs.

 

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A couple of minutes more.

 

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Couple of low carb flour tortillas from Trader Joes with a bit of cheese in nuke.

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So I dropped the bottle of sauerkraut on the kitchen floor the other day and broke it - so replaced it with another bottle of Bavarian Style - awfully sweet I found. 

 

Browned the chops, sautéed the caraway seed in the remaining oil, heated up the sauerkraut, placed chops on top and gave them 18 minutes high pressure.  

 

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I was happy with the meals I made yesterday - now starting to plan for my next 24 hour shift on the 2nd. 

 

I'm pretty sure I have a couple of small lamb shanks in the downstairs freezer so I think that will make one of my meals. Was thinking just onion, a bit of chicken stock - and cooking for about 60 minutes. 

 

Perhaps soup for the other meal - I'll have to dig in the fridge and see what's there. Thought I might pick up an inexpensive immersion blender from a thrift store to cream soups in situ if that's what they call for.

 

 

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I just made some tortilla soup from Cook's illustrated.  It was awesome and very easy for a Cook's recipe.  You do have to make your own tortilla strips in the oven, although I suppose you could get away with using ready made chips.  

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to feed the EER Crowd :

 

get some [ed.: Oxymoron coming} good quality HotDogs, the kind w 'snap'  a couple of VacBags.

 

enough WhiteBread buns to cover the above

 

simmer until just warm, they usually are precooked.  switch to 'warm'

 

place the Buns in a steamer basket above the water.  loosely cover

 

have plenty of YellowMustard, or Dijon.  Plenty of chopped red Onion.  this completes the feast.

 

NB:  w the chopped onions, no one is going to bother anybody with MakeWork.

 

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On ‎12‎/‎26‎/‎2015 at 4:48 PM, Kerry Beal said:

Dropped the bottle of sauerkraut on the kitchen floor the other day and broke it - so replaced it with another bottle of Bavarian Style - awfully sweet I found. 

 

Well, yes, it is sweeter than "regular."  I don't know what brand you bought and maybe it's sweeter than the brands I buy, but perhaps my family and I just like it sweeter than you do.  Sorry.  But, hey, next time you'll know, and your kraut & chops meal looks terrific, so not complete waste, right?

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I don't understand why rappers have to hunch over while they stomp around the stage hollering.  It hurts my back to watch them. On the other hand, I've been thinking that perhaps I should start a rap group here at the Old Folks' Home.  Most of us already walk like that.

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Brought along the fixings for chicken soup today -

 

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Gave the chicken marylands 15 minutes, 10 minutes for the sautéed veg, then another 2 minutes for the added back chicken and some nice big cooked limas. Just waiting for it to cool sufficiently to eat.

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Found these lovely little silicone cups made by Danesco in Steel City Surplus for 49 cents each. They have a flat bottom that means I can just sit them strait down without having to worry about jar rings and such. Not sure they would hold a big double yoker though. 

 

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After 3 minutes and quick release still a bit undercooked. Back in for one minutes they were a bit over cooked. I suspect 4 minutes from the start would be fine.

 

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Had already put the eggs in the cups before reading Anna's instructions to grease the cups well (she actually said I should grease the cops but none have shown up here at work yet).

 

 

 

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Found a package of turkey dark meat, no skin, in the freezer last night. Decided to bring it along with plans to have it as my lunch and use the remainder to make turkey vegetable soup for dinner.

 

A handful of RG Christmas Limas went in the pot for 20 minutes. Perfectly cooked - awaiting their placement in the soup later today.

 

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Here's the turkey meat cooked in a bit of chicken stock - wasn't at all impressed with the flavour so didn't use it in the soup.

 

 

 

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Soup with with stock from cooking the turkey, carrots, parsnips , celery and the Christmas Limas - good grinding of pepper. 

 

 

 

 

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