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Post by missfrenchjessica on Jul 22, 2016 15:29:53 GMT
won't blow up my house! I'm making this along with this and a side of this. The sauteeing part went fine...then I had to put the pressure cooker on and I'm a little nervous. Crossing my fingers not only doesn't my house go "boom", but that we have a delicious dinner as well! |
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Post by littlemama on Jul 22, 2016 15:39:04 GMT
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jul 22, 2016 16:12:33 GMT
That sounds good! I tried mine out for the first time this morning too. With temps in the mid 90's and a heat index over a hundred degrees we've been in the mood for tuna salad. I was a little nervous about cooking plain pasta in it with no other sauce, but after doing a search and using tips elaine posted a while back it turned out perfect!  Much quicker and much cooler than boiling a big pot of water on the stove. |
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Post by missfrenchjessica on Jul 22, 2016 16:50:34 GMT
Well, house is in one piece and the beef looks, smells, and tastes yummy! Did the corn on the stove for time's sake. The corn salsa is in the fridge chilling.  Have the cilantro lime rice in now...hoping it comes out well. Then, I'm taking the boys to lunch. |
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Post by gale w on Jul 22, 2016 17:04:53 GMT
That sounds good! I tried mine out for the first time this morning too. With temps in the mid 90's and a heat index over a hundred degrees we've been in the mood for tuna salad. I was a little nervous about cooking plain pasta in it with no other sauce, but after doing a search and using tips elaine posted a while back it turned out perfect! Much quicker and much cooler than boiling a big pot of water on the stove. Is that in the manual? I hate cooking pasta alone because of the big pot of water. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jul 22, 2016 17:33:56 GMT
That sounds good! I tried mine out for the first time this morning too. With temps in the mid 90's and a heat index over a hundred degrees we've been in the mood for tuna salad. I was a little nervous about cooking plain pasta in it with no other sauce, but after doing a search and using tips elaine posted a while back it turned out perfect! Much quicker and much cooler than boiling a big pot of water on the stove. Is that in the manual? I hate cooking pasta alone because of the big pot of water. No, and there isn't much online about cooking pasta in it plain either. Lots of recipes with pasta in some kind of sauce. But I found this post from Elaine on one of the other IP threads and it worked perfectly. I didn't know how much pasta is in one of those Suddenly Salads, but we'd just bought some packs of pasta from Costco. I used what I thought was about a pound, put in enough water to cover plus a tablespoon of oil, just like she noted. Turned it on, set it for five minutes and when it beeped the pasta was perfectly cooked. I want to say the whole thing took maybe 15 minutes? On my electric stovetop, it would have taken 20 minutes just to get the pot of water boiling, so I'm calling it a win.  |
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Post by gale w on Jul 22, 2016 17:39:43 GMT
thank you! I'll have to try it. It makes my kitchen so hot to boil pasta. I was about to get the fasta pasta thing for the microwave but this would be better.
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Post by missfrenchjessica on Jul 22, 2016 18:32:12 GMT
elaine or anyone else...I screwed up the cilantro rice. Any advice before I give in an remake it on the stove? THIS is the recipe and I just followed it and dumped everything in the insta pot. It had too much liquid the first round and the it got mushy when I did a second round to get the water out. I know that it was overcooked because I did 2 cycles, but I don't know how to adjust the water so that I can get it to work. Any advice?
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Post by elaine on Jul 22, 2016 20:42:45 GMT
elaine or anyone else...I screwed up the cilantro rice. Any advice before I give in an remake it on the stove? THIS is the recipe and I just followed it and dumped everything in the insta pot. It had too much liquid the first round and the it got mushy when I did a second round to get the water out. I know that it was overcooked because I did 2 cycles, but I don't know how to adjust the water so that I can get it to work. Any advice? 1.25 cups of water. |
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Post by missfrenchjessica on Jul 22, 2016 20:47:14 GMT
Thanks elaine ! I'll try that! |
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Post by gale w on Jul 22, 2016 21:55:37 GMT
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Post by shescrafty on Jul 22, 2016 22:11:31 GMT
I have used this recipe before and it came out perfectly good luck! |
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Post by missfrenchjessica on Jul 22, 2016 22:40:54 GMT
First meal in the pressure cooker was a success! Yay! Looking forward to trying more recipes.  |
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Much quicker and much cooler than boiling a big pot of water on the stove.
