Part 1: Written from 12,000 feet above sea level
As you may know, I read Juanita Phillip’s book “A Pressure Cooker saved my life” whilst on holiday recently. I must admit it was timely reading. Recently, I like most people have found myself struggling to juggle the demands on my time, particularly in view of meeting deadlines and coming up with creative pitches as a freelancer.
Whilst Phillip’s offers nothing revolutionary in the book it does contain a wealth of very useful advice and suggestions about being organised.
At present, I am concerned about the risk I am putting my children at for scurvy as their access to fresh fruit and vegetable has been limited lately. So really I need to step up to the plate and see if a) the using of a pressure cooker is all it’s cracked up by Phillips to be b) artfully ensure my children and Husband and I are having wonderful, nutritious dishes that are quick and easy to prepare.
I began writing this piece whilst 11.5 km above sea level because really I have no idea when else I will fit it in. To my left Mr Large is playing his DSi, and to my right Miss Medium is singing a delightful ditty that involves our plane crashing. Thankfully Mr Small is seated with Husband in the adjoining row or there would be no writing done at all.
Thus far, I have gone through her recipes and made a list using the aeroplane sick bag they have so thoughtfully provided me with.
Having read through Phillip’s book carefully I will be dragging out a pressure cooker my wonderful in laws gave us, that I promptly put away and forgot about. My criticism of her book would be however, that she doesn’t always state how many serves the cooking actually makes. I am assuming that it will be sufficient for a family of 2 adults and 2 children but I don’t actually know….
Part 2: Really I’m doing you a favour …
The shopping list as you probably saw was quite long. In future I would probably shop online for a great deal of my produce. I’ve noticed Coles Online often have special offers of free delivery. In my new life as an organised person I will hopefully be a little more prepared in this regard. But right now, I’m not.
At this point, my interest lies in seeing how many meals roughly this will actually make and how much I can freeze as well. Being my usual over ambitious self I am devoting a whole day to cooking all these dishes and then freezing them in the Tupperware I bought in Bali. A whole other post in itself. Best to nod at me and smile.
My plan is to cook:
- chicken soup
- chicken cacciatore
- bolgonaise
- goulash
- meatballs
Because Husband and I are trying for carb free in the evenings most of the dishes are mainly protein but I would add a serve of mashed potatoes or pasta or rice for the offspring at dinner time.
In my next post I’ll let you know how good the recipes are, how easy/hard they were to prepare and what they looked like.
If I don’t, assume it didn’t go well….
In the meantime, if you have any recipes you could suggest for the pressure cooker I'd love to hear them.
In the meantime, if you have any recipes you could suggest for the pressure cooker I'd love to hear them.
