Jumping on the pressure cooker bandwagon

This week, we borrowed a pressure cooker from Lee's parents, and put it to the test.  We cooked some dry black, red, and kidney beans for our beans and rice recipe, which was definitely less time intensive and was easier to clean up.  We also tested our sticky chicken recipe in the pressure cooker instead of the crock-pot, which came out a bit less tender but still good.  We'll likely continue to use the crock-pot for this dish.  We made some rice, as we've been considering getting a second, larger, rice cooker.  The rice was a little bit more wet than the rice in our rice cooker, but that would probably be resolved with an adjustment to the proportions of water to rice.  We then cooked some ground turkey from frozen with some taco seasoning, which worked, but the meat doesn't have the texture that Stacey prefers, so we'll go back to our normal way of cooking that as well.

Share some of your favorite pressure cooker foods and recipes with us in the comments below.

Knitting:

Stacey has continued working on her Twinkle Twinkle Little Vampire socks out of Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock Lightweight.  The foot is coming along nicely, and it has reached the point in which it actually looks like a sock!  Stacey is still loving the striping pattern from this yarn, and has managed to not go out and purchase all of Blue Moon Fiber Arts self-striping yarn.  (Sorry Blue Moon Fiber Arts!)

Cross-stitch:

Stacey has gotten back to the Wizard of Oz block of the 2015 Story Time Sampler pattern from The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery.  Toto has been added to the block, as has a good amount of the basket and the yellow brick road.