Breakfast for dinner. Sausages, rashers, black and white pudding, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans, eggs and soda bread. All washed down with coffee.
10 Likes
6 Likes
I like mine and use it fairly frequently. Itās great at stuff you donāt want to think about for a while, and donāt want to burn once itās done. One friend makes yougurt in hers once a week. I make big batches of applesauce to freeze in small containers. If you like pulses, such as beans of any sort, itās good at cooking them without a presoak in a reasonable amount of time. I have a 6qt with the air-fryer lid, Iām not impressed with that. I buy mine used from Craigslist, always under 60$, but I take what model I can find. Iāve had a few die on me-one caught fire underneath, one just stopped sealing well enough to hold pressure. You do have to keep in mind that it does take time to build up pressure and to drop that pressure after cooking, so some stuff it doesnāt save any time on. I know people who swear by both polenta and risotto in the IP but Iāve had mixed results.
8 Likes
Concur with all that. And I love the ārefried beansā recipe that came in the recipe book with our model.
I also like that it replaced our crock pot and pressure cooker, weāve even used it for canning.
In our plans for a āmicro kitchenā if/when we downsize, our thoughts are weād have an instant pot, an induction burner or two, and a toaster oven. Those and a solar oven to toss in the yard and Bobās your uncle!
8 Likes
Awesome! thanks for sharing your instapot experiences! And @ClutchLinkey! will think about one for next X-mas mayhaps!
6 Likes
Iām definitely doing the corned beef, cabbage, carrots, and potatoes thing. I may make bread, but it wonāt be soda bread.
8 Likes
Oh! I should have got carrots to add to mine! Oh well!
5 Likes
I have to run to the store in the morning and buy cabbage. I forgot lol.
8 Likes
I had to pick up buttermilk today and totally forgot carrotsā¦
7 Likes
We discussed picking up shamrock shakes, but no other nods to St. Pat.
I made chicken Marsala, and a polenta adjacent roast cauliflower dish, with mushrooms and hazelnuts, largely because we had chicken, cauliflower and cream that needed using, and we were out of cornmeal with which to make actual polenta.
5 Likes
4 Likes
Started the corned beef before lunch. Iām cooking an uncured brisket (no nitrites) due to a family sensitivity.
Seared the brisket on the pellet grill:
Sauteed onions and garlic in the Instant Pot, added the corning spices, beef broth, and pFriem Czech dark lager and let that reduce while the brisket was on the grill.
Combined and ready to slow cook topped off with more broth:
This is a radical departure from my usual and Iām excited to see how it goes!
8 Likes
I just dumped all my stuff in the crockpots, cranked up the heat and let them goā¦ cause Iām lazy! I do like the idea of the sauce reduction with the beer! maybe Iāll try that some other time.
5 Likes
mum and i really showed our āIrishā today.
made slow cooked, pulled pork carnitas and had lovely tacos! sooo good with a cold Modelo.
sorry, no pics. they were no sooner plated that they were inhaled, muy presto, y con gusto!
yeah, weāre traditional like that. 
11 Likes
Thatās ok. The corned beef and cabbage we eat on St. Patrickās Day is very much an American tradition, not an Irish one. I say eat what you want!
ETA: And while tacos isnāt traditional in Ireland on St. Patrickās Day, pork absolutely is. So you might be arguably closer to a traditional St. Patrickās Day meal than the rest of us.
6 Likes
Ok, it wasnāt very different from simple slow-cooker corned beef. A little richee with the stock and beer. The consistency was slightly better. Less stringy and the slices held together better while still being tender. Not much flavor difference. 
10 Likes
ā Last year, Amazon gave āauthorsā who crank out books a license to āwriteā and publish only up to three books every day via its platform, even if they use AI, and claimed that this limitprotects customers.ā
Yeah. This has been a problem for years on Amazon: Markov chain books seeded with failed searches extracted from Amazonās API and thousands a month, print on demand, from these authors. They started proliferating when Amazon stopped advertising books made from āquality wiki contentā.
7 Likes
