Re: OT- What's for dinner?
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 8:50 pm
Two comments:kteague wrote:Just this week was talking on FB with friends and 2 of them raved over their electric pressure cooker. I didn't even know there was such a thing. One said theirs is Oster brand. I had mentioned trying one of those FB tips that's been circulating about submerging a can of sweetened condensed milk in water in a crock pot on low for 8 hours and it is supposed to come out as caramel. I was proud of my experiment proving it really works. Then someone burst my bubble saying they accomplished the same thing in 15 minutes in their electric pressure cooker. It just may be on my Christmas wish list, if it can accommodate cooking for at least 6 every meal.
The mention of meatloaf sounds good. My family likes it stuffed with mashed potatoes and cheese on the inside. Ground beef has been too expensive for our crew to have it often. As for the original question. I'm asking myself that very thing.
Try steaming your spuds for mashed taters in that pressure cooker. Pressure steam is even better. You don't pour half the flavor down the sink.
Ground meat? Do you have a food processor with a nice sharp blade? Make your own grind! You can often find chuck or similar, pork shoulder, or even lamb, much cheaper in cuts than ground. And you know *exactly* what the grind contains. No pink slime, no more fat than you want, and no mixture of today's meat with last week's unsold cuts.