Want your kids to polish their plates? Make them this Instant Pot Island Chicken. The fabulous citrus flavors both soften and flavor-ize the chicken and the pineapple adds just the right amount of sweetness! We have chicken and rice night about once a week, with different variations of chicken and rice. This meal is just perfect! This meal is also freezer friendly … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Corn on the Cob
The FAST, NO HEAT way to cook your corn on the cob this summer... Your Instant Pot!!!! It's quick (3 minutes, plus come to pressure time) and you won't heat up your kitchen or have to cook them out of the grill! The kernels are perfectly softened and cooked, and if you can time it right to have these ready just as you're plating dinner...the following will … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Green Chile Chicken Street Tacos
These amazing green-green tacos have just enough spice and just enough flavor punch to have your family begging for more. They call for green chilies and green salsa (salsa verde). Salsa verde is not a spicy salsa, but it is packed with flavor. The green chilies will give the chicken a teeny, tiny bit of spice...but not too much to aggravate your taste buds. Plus, the giant … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Chicken Tikka Masala
Tikka Masala...in the Instant Pot?? You betcha! This is such a fabulous chicken dish...packed with flavor. It calls for a 'specialty' spice - garam masala. It's a very 'warm' spice and is commonly used in Indian dishes. It's a combo of cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and peppercorns. It's not spicy...but very very flavorful. And it balances well with the tomato sauce and … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Santa Fe Beef
The green and the red collide in this amazing beef roast that's cooked in the Instant Pot. I've made the 'what chili should I pick decision' for you easy by using both green chilies and red salsa (not red chilies) in this great and simple beef roast meal. (Your chili preference is a THING in New Mexico!) When you cook this beef roast in the Instant Pot (I recommend this … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Herbed Pork Tenderloin
I adore the way that the instant pot cooks a pork tenderloin. Adore. (I'm working on a bacon wrapped pork tenderloin in the Instant Pot...once I have it tweaked just right, I'll share it!) If you've ever looked at recipes for pork tenderloin or other thicker meats, you'll find a wide range of cook times. After making several different types and kinds of roasts in the … [Read more...]
How the Instant Pot Fits into Your Cooking M.O.
What is "my cooking M.O."? Your cooking m.o. is how you operate in the kitchen. "M.O." is a new buzzy abbreviation-word-phrase that's being thrown around for 'modus operandi' or 'how you operate.' So your cooking m.o. is basically how you work and operate in the kitchen and it encompasses: your attitude toward cooking, your gratitude towards food, how you prep food, how you … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Taco Soup Recipe
Here it is...our fabulous instant pot taco soup!!! I love making this soup in the slow cooker and on the stovetop. I have made it many-many-many times over the years. But I have to tell you...I like the Instant Pot version the best. Why? Because of the way that an electric pressure cooker heats and pressurizes the food, it does a better job of infusing flavor. Yes, … [Read more...]
25 Instant Pot Dinner Recipes
A fabulous list of Instant Pot (electric pressure cooker) recipes for you... (And if you don't have one yet and want to start using it, I highly recommend this one.) Instant Pot Buffalo Chicken Wings - Mom’s Noms Instant Pot Beef Stew Scraps & Parsley Dumplings - Recipe This Instant Pot BBQ Chicken - Wonder Mom Wannabe Macaroni & Cheese in the Pressure … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Shredded Hawaiian Chicken Sandwiches
Love me some shredded chicken from the Instant Pot. I love how hands off these recipes are, and how well the flavor is infused into the chicken and sauce as the food is heated and pressurized inside the EPC. Here are 2 great resources for you related to making shredded chicken in the Instant Pot :) Instant Pot Shredded Chicken - 10 Ways to Make It!! Instant Pot … [Read more...]