"Jeff" > wrote in message
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> Thu, 11 Aug 2005 06:59:22 -0400, "Ellen" > wrote:
>
> >"Jeff" > wrote in message
> ...
> >Ah yes, the ever famous "try not to like this dish too much because it's
> >what was in the fridge and you will never have it again quite the same
way"
> >cooking method. My family seems fairly resigned to that :-)
>
> What? With a shelf full of cookbooks? I thought that predictability was
> the idea behind cooking by recipe.

I know it's truly amazing how much dust the shelf full (or multiple shelves
to be more exact) of books collects :-)

>
> <shrug> So put them in, then. To my taste, they're too heavy/starchy
> for soup. If you like potatoes, try dicing them up and putting them in
> meat loaf in place of rice or bread crumbs. Killer good with the right
> spices and such.

Interesting, I'll have to try that. I did throw in the one lonely potato
because I happened to notice it and it was not much potato for the amt of
soup.


> > And it
> >all seems so natural and normal to be using the pressure cooker as
opposed
> >to the microwave where after 20 years I still can't seem to do anything
> >other than reheating leftovers
>
> That's the only thing I ever use a microwave for. I was introduced to
> pressure cookers when a friend made a chicken in a microwave pressure
> cooker (now how's that for a gizmo?).

never heard of that ... and probably just as happy :-)

>
> If the lowest setting on your smallest burner is too hot, I guess
> you'll have to turn it off and back on. That's a nuisance, I know, but
> this sort of pressure cooker needs to be monitored anyway.

yeah the low on the front/bigger burner was keeping it at the second ring,
so I bopped the value with a wooden spoon a couple of times to release some
pressure and put it in on the back/smaller burner at the lowest setting.
Seemed to be enough difference in heat (altho the flame size for both
burners looked the same to me and the size difference isn't much) to keep it
at the first ring. Unfortunately I have this wretched thermadore stove (talk
about a big mistake in stove purchases) and two of the burners are "normal"
gas burners and the other two have this "turn on/turn off" feature for lower
settings which took me about 2 days to learn to hate.

But the cooking times are short enough that it is not a big problem to hang
around in the vicinity and keep an eye on it.

Ellen