The Ultimate Pressure-Cooker Cookbook Nobody knows more about pressure cookers than Vickie Smith, creator of the leading pressure-cooker Web site, MissVickie.com. Now, at last, Miss Vickie has gathered all of her pressure-cooker wisdom into a book. Whether you're a pressure-cooker newcomer or a longtime fan, you'll find all the recipes, techniques, and tips you need for a lifetime of great pressure-cooker meals. Miss Vickie's Big Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes is jam-packed with nearly 400 fast, tasty, foolproof recipes, ranging from one-pot meals like Chicken and Rice with Mushrooms to Sweet and Sour Pork, Navy Bean Soup, and Chocolate Malt Cheesecake. Miss Vickie's detailed recipe instructions and special techniques, such as "pan in pot" pressure cooking, guarantee that each dish comes out perfectly cooked--and perfectly delicious. But Miss Vickie gives you more than just great recipes. Her book also provides in-depth guidance on every aspect of choosing and using a pressure cooker, including: * A buyers' guide to modern pressure cookers * Step-by-step pressure-cooker instructions * Pressure-cooker safety * Basic and advanced pressure-cooking techniques * Common mistakes in pressure cookery * Adapting recipes to the pressure cooker * Tips, tricks, and troubleshooting Offering hundreds of recipes that are proven to work--and proven delicious--plus plain-English answers to all of your pressure-cooker questions, Miss Vickie has created the single most useful pressure-cooker book ever published. It's a resource you'll turn to again and again as you explore the world of pressure-cooker possibilities and pleasures.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Will teach you how to adapt your existing recipes.:
This cookbook starts off explaining the history, good and bad, of pressure cookers; then provides a method by which we can test and learn how to control our individual pressure cookers in an easy/best fashion; gives a VERY USEFUL table showing time, pressure, and suggested de-pressurization speeds for most of the foods recommended for pressure cooking, and finally many recipes. Frankly, I have tried several of the recipes and found them to be quite tasty, however, I mostly appreciate the cooking table... more info
The definitive guide for a beginner:
My grandmother used a whistling pressure cooker for years and years until the seal wore out. I just bought my own, and since she has passed on, I had no way to learn to use it first hand as I don't trust the internet for something that can explode/melt down if done wrong(nobody else has one in my family). I purchased this book after reading reviews and deciding between the top two sources. This book provides methods for a lot of different foods to be cooked. I gave it four stars because, as I saw in a... more info
Good Eating!:
Great recipes!
Pressure cookers are Fast! Cooking time is Quick!
Food tastes better and is better for you, all nutrients and flavors are trapped inside the Pot.
Bought a new Fagor Splendid 6-Quart Pressure Cooker because the recipes were so good.
Bought the Fagor Portable Induction Cooktop for the Fagor Pressure Cooker and it works Perfect.
The book has information about the history of pressure cookers...very interesting indeed.
We now save TIME and ENERGY with this... more info
Good general info and lots of recipes:
The instruction manual that came with my pressure cooker gives just the basic information and very few recipes. This book is a far better source of information for general usage of the appliance, and has enough recipes to keep me experimenting for a long time. The half dozen recipes that I have tried so far have all been successful. I would recommend buying this book even before you actually buy your pressure cooker because of the information provided on various types.
