About this item
The ultimate in pressure cooker books--with recipes for breakfasts, soups, mains, grains, vegetables, and desserts--each adapted for stovetop or electric models.The old-fashioned pressure cooker has been rediscovered by modern home cooks, both for its quick-cooking powers dried beans are perfectly soft in 35 minutes risottos are tender in 20 minutes and for its ability to infuse foods with intense flavor carrots become sweeter, meat more savory. The Great Big Pressure Cooker Book has recipes for every device, stovetop and electric, no matter the manufacturer. Whether youre seeking an adventurous array of spices, found in dishes such as Cherry Chipotle Pulled Chicken or Smashed Sweet Potatoes with Pineapple and Ginger, or pure comfort food, like French Toast Bread Pudding or Classic Pot Roast and Potatoes, youll find the perfect recipe--each labeled by level of ease--to feed your family.
About the Author
I'm the writing half of a best-selling cookbook team (with Bruce Weinstein, my partner and the chef in our duo) . Once upon a time, I was an academic, working in nineteenth century American literature, teaching in Austin, when writing slowly overtook my life. I started providing content for a little start-up called AOL, started writing screenplays for some fancy-pants actor/directors, and finally chucked it all to move to New York. (I love being a cliché.) These days, Bruce and I find our peace on ten acres in northern Connecticut with bear, moose, and bobcats--as well as a collie named Dreydl. We just published COOKING KNOW-HOW this year--and are eagerly awaiting HAM: AN OBSESSION WITH THE HINDQUARTER in March and REAL FOOD HAS CURVES: HOW TO GET OFF PROCESSED FOOD, LOSE WEIGHT, AND LOVE WHAT YOU EAT in May. And there's a goat book in pieces on my computer for 2011.
