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So Fast, So Easy Pressure Cooker Cookbook: More Than 725 Fresh, Delicious Recipes for Electric and Stovetop Pressure Cookers
The ultimate cookbook for electric and stovetop pressure cookers, showing you how to prepare over 725 tasty & easy recipes in little time.
With recipes for everything from homemade baby food to delectable desserts, So Fast, So Easy Pressure Cooker Cookbook contains over 725 foolproof recipes for soups, stews, and braises, as well as grains, beans, vegetables, and so much more, all ready in a fraction of the time they would take in the oven or simmered on stovetop. It will change the way you cook!
Praise for So Fast, So Easy Pressure Cooker Cookbook
“Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann have done it again! So Fast, So Easy Pressure Cooker Cookbook is a treasure trove of delicious recipes, including 7-minute risottos, 5-minute chilis, and hearty stews ready in just 15 minutes. This book is a winner for anyone who is just starting out with the pressure cooker, as well as for more experienced cooks looking for fresh and exciting recipes for this wonderful cooker.” —Diane Phillips, author ofThe Everyday Rice Cooker “I confess. I own a French cocotte (pressure cooker) that I've never used. I've been too scared. Now, with this deeply intelligent and knowledgeable book at my side, I'm ready to do what I've watched my French friends do with aplomb for cook with a pressure cooker. I'll be making rich, deeply flavored beef stock in 1 hour instead of 12, and whipping up an unctuous dish of Veal Marengo in less than 15 minutes. Soup for dinner? Give me 5 to 7 minutes. I can't say enough good things about this book. The opening chapter, all about pressure cookers, is alone worth the price of the book.” —Georgeanne Brennan, owner of La Vie Rustic–Sustainable Living in the French Style, and author of Williams Sonoma Essentials of French Cooking “I’ve read every page of this terrific new book, and every single recipe. It is a consummate guide to the technical aspects of the pressure cooker, providing answers to any question one could conceivably have about this important—and overlooked—piece of equipment all of us should own in the interest of energy conservation. The recipes are masterful and inspired. [Hensperger and Kaufmann] are from the old school of cookbook writers who speak to you from a profound base of knowledge, love, and understanding about the art, history, and science of cooking. So Fast, So Easy Pressure Cooker Cookbook offers delectable and inspired food for the home cook.” —Julie Della Croce, author of Italian Home Cooking
With recipes for everything from homemade baby food to delectable desserts, So Fast, So Easy Pressure Cooker Cookbook contains over 725 foolproof recipes for soups, stews, and braises, as well as grains, beans, vegetables, and so much more, all ready in a fraction of the time they would take in the oven or simmered on stovetop. It will change the way you cook!
Praise for So Fast, So Easy Pressure Cooker Cookbook
“Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann have done it again! So Fast, So Easy Pressure Cooker Cookbook is a treasure trove of delicious recipes, including 7-minute risottos, 5-minute chilis, and hearty stews ready in just 15 minutes. This book is a winner for anyone who is just starting out with the pressure cooker, as well as for more experienced cooks looking for fresh and exciting recipes for this wonderful cooker.” —Diane Phillips, author ofThe Everyday Rice Cooker “I confess. I own a French cocotte (pressure cooker) that I've never used. I've been too scared. Now, with this deeply intelligent and knowledgeable book at my side, I'm ready to do what I've watched my French friends do with aplomb for cook with a pressure cooker. I'll be making rich, deeply flavored beef stock in 1 hour instead of 12, and whipping up an unctuous dish of Veal Marengo in less than 15 minutes. Soup for dinner? Give me 5 to 7 minutes. I can't say enough good things about this book. The opening chapter, all about pressure cookers, is alone worth the price of the book.” —Georgeanne Brennan, owner of La Vie Rustic–Sustainable Living in the French Style, and author of Williams Sonoma Essentials of French Cooking “I’ve read every page of this terrific new book, and every single recipe. It is a consummate guide to the technical aspects of the pressure cooker, providing answers to any question one could conceivably have about this important—and overlooked—piece of equipment all of us should own in the interest of energy conservation. The recipes are masterful and inspired. [Hensperger and Kaufmann] are from the old school of cookbook writers who speak to you from a profound base of knowledge, love, and understanding about the art, history, and science of cooking. So Fast, So Easy Pressure Cooker Cookbook offers delectable and inspired food for the home cook.” —Julie Della Croce, author of Italian Home Cooking
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First published December 1, 2015
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About the author
Beth Hensperger
31 books54 followersBeth Hensperger is a passionate professional- and home- baker who is both extremely creative and extraordinarily prolific as an author and developer of quality recipes. Her training included a ten-year apprenticeship as a restaurant and hotel pastry chef as well as having her own custom wedding cake business and attending classes given by some of the top bakers in America. Though restaurant trained, she considers herself more of a dedicated home baker than a chef.
Beth’s writing career began when she was chosen as the Guest Cooking Instructor for the March 1985 issue of Bon Appetit. She is now the author of fifteen cookbooks, many of them best sellers. Her most recent books include: Williams Sonoma Breads (Weldon Owen), Bread For Breakfast (Ten Speed Press), and The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook (HCP). The Bread Bible (Chronicle Books) is the recipient of The James Beard Foundation Award for Baking in 2000. Beth's Basic Bread Book (Chronicle Books), a sequential text for the beginning home baker, published in the Fall of 1996, was chosen as one of the best baking books of the year by People Magazine. She has been nominated twice for the IACP Julia Child Cookbook Awards. Her books are all represented at the prestigious Culinary Collection of the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
When she isn't up to her elbows in flour, Beth is a monthly food columnist with the San Jose Mercury News "Baking By the Seasons". She is a regular contributor to Cooking Pleasures, Food & Wine, Shape Magazine, Bon Appétit, Veggie Life, and Pastry Art and Design Magazines.
Beth’s writing career began when she was chosen as the Guest Cooking Instructor for the March 1985 issue of Bon Appetit. She is now the author of fifteen cookbooks, many of them best sellers. Her most recent books include: Williams Sonoma Breads (Weldon Owen), Bread For Breakfast (Ten Speed Press), and The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook (HCP). The Bread Bible (Chronicle Books) is the recipient of The James Beard Foundation Award for Baking in 2000. Beth's Basic Bread Book (Chronicle Books), a sequential text for the beginning home baker, published in the Fall of 1996, was chosen as one of the best baking books of the year by People Magazine. She has been nominated twice for the IACP Julia Child Cookbook Awards. Her books are all represented at the prestigious Culinary Collection of the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
When she isn't up to her elbows in flour, Beth is a monthly food columnist with the San Jose Mercury News "Baking By the Seasons". She is a regular contributor to Cooking Pleasures, Food & Wine, Shape Magazine, Bon Appétit, Veggie Life, and Pastry Art and Design Magazines.
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August 31, 2017
Checked out from my library to get a sense of the basics of using a pressure cooker. Intro chapter was decent for that purpose. Vegan under pressure was better.
The recipes are diverse and span all meal occasions from soup to oats and everything else. They served the purpose of getting me excited for the possibilities of my new pressure cooker. However, they lack basic nutritional information, so I will starting with one of the recipes recommended by a friend or from Pinterest. I am unlikely to take time to calculate nutritionalsl myself when there are so many yummy looking options that come with that information readily available. This omission keeps the book from being higher than three stars for me (and therefore, it fails to earn space on my shelf of cookbooks) as I believe basic nutritional info is helpful and warranted - even with comfort foods.
After reading this cookbook, I still didn't take the plunge until a friend gently nudged me to start small with boiled eggs. So it didn't end up being as motivating as I had hoped. For me, since I carried the baggage of the old, not-so-safe pressure cookers, I needed the more thorough instructions I found in Vegan under pressure to get me to actually move. If you don't share my completely unwarranted fear of pressure cookers - you are likely to get better mileage out of this book.
The recipes are diverse and span all meal occasions from soup to oats and everything else. They served the purpose of getting me excited for the possibilities of my new pressure cooker. However, they lack basic nutritional information, so I will starting with one of the recipes recommended by a friend or from Pinterest. I am unlikely to take time to calculate nutritionalsl myself when there are so many yummy looking options that come with that information readily available. This omission keeps the book from being higher than three stars for me (and therefore, it fails to earn space on my shelf of cookbooks) as I believe basic nutritional info is helpful and warranted - even with comfort foods.
After reading this cookbook, I still didn't take the plunge until a friend gently nudged me to start small with boiled eggs. So it didn't end up being as motivating as I had hoped. For me, since I carried the baggage of the old, not-so-safe pressure cookers, I needed the more thorough instructions I found in Vegan under pressure to get me to actually move. If you don't share my completely unwarranted fear of pressure cookers - you are likely to get better mileage out of this book.
December 5, 2016
Some good basic recipes, but the ones outside of that are kind of odd. I made the Chicken Thighs with Herbs and Shallots on page 171. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't knock my socks off either.
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