Picante Chicken and Black Bean Soup in the Pressure Cooker

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When I was looking at Cinco de May recipes on Pinterest, I came across Skinny Taste’s Crockpot Picante Chicken and Black Bean Soup. I loved that it was a “skinny” recipe and I knew it would make a great pressure cooker recipe. I also loved that it would give me a good excuse to finally make black beans from scratch.

The soup is thickened with pureed black beans instead of cream. I used the soup setting on my Blendtec and blended until the beans were silky smooth.

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Root Beer Pulled Pork Sandwiches in the Pressure Cooker

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Tender pulled-pork in a sweet root beer barbecue sauce cooked in the pressure cooker for a slow cooked taste in a fraction of the time. 

Have you seen the new Recipe Girl Cookbook yet? It’s filled with wonderful recipes perfect for every day and special occasions. Lori recently gave me a copy of her cookbook to review. I’ve bookmarked several of the recipes to make, but her Root Beer Pulled Pork Sandiwch recipe seemed perfect for Pressure Cooking Today. I adapted it for the pressure cooker from her slow cooker recipe.

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Quick and Easy Spanish Rice

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We eat a lot of rice at our house and I always cook it in the pressure cooker. It’s super easy and cooks perfectly every time.

Since Cinco de Mayo is right around the corner, and the perfect time to share my quick and easy Spanish Rice recipe. The rice only takes four minutes to cook in the pressure cooker, so it’s the perfect side dish for almost anything you’re cooking this year for Cinco de Mayo.

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Apple Cherry Breakfast Risotto

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A lightly sweetened risotto loaded with apples and dried cherries. A delightful way to start the day, and it’s ready in under 15 minutes when you make it in the pressure cooker.

Kalyn, Kalyn’s Kitchen, also blogs at Slow Cooker from Scratch. She recently posted a recipe roundup – 20 Delicious Slow Cooker Breakfast Recipes from Food Bloggers. All 20 recipes looked delicious, but it was the Crockpot Breakfast Risotto from A Year of Slow Cooking that I decided I wanted to try first.

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Cooking up a Pot of Black Beans

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Today I’m featuring a pressure cooker recipe from MJ’s Kitchen. Black beans are MJ’s favorite bean and she doesn’t use canned beans because they’re often somewhat tasteless and mushy. She prefers to pressure cooks her beans which yields the best tasting beans possible in a relatively short period of time. My family prefers black beans too, so perhaps that’s why MJ’s post Cooking up a Pot of Black Beans caught my eye.

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Giveaway: Lowes Outdoor Grill with Built in Rotisserie

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All this week I’m doing giveaways on Barbara Bakes to help Carrian, Sweet Basil, celebrate her 29th birthday, and to celebrate my five year blogiversary and say thank you to all my wonderful readers for their support over the years. I decided my Pressure Cooker Today readers needed a thank you and a chance to win too. 

I love grilling in the summer. This summer my plan is to grill more often and use my pressure cooker to cook fantastic side dishes so I don’t have to heat up the kitchen using the oven.
I love grilling in the summer. This summer my plan is to grill more often and use my pressure cooker to cook fantastic side dishes so I don’t have to heat up the kitchen using the oven.

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Giveaway: Vacation for 4 to Deer Valley Resort

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All this week I’m doing giveaways on Barbara Bakes to help Carrian, Sweet Basil, celebrate her 29th birthday, and to celebrate my five year blogiversary and say thank you to all my wonderful readers for their support over the years. I decided my Pressure Cooker Today readers needed a thank you and a chance to win too.

Today’s giveaway is a vacation for 4 during the 2013-2014 ski season to Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah, a 2 bed/2bath condo for 2 nights, 2 days of lift tickets and ski rentals for 4, group ski lessons for each person, and dinner for 4 at a Deer Valley Evening Restaurant. Travel is not included.

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Spaghetti Squash with Roasted Balsamic Cherry Tomatoes

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Kristen, Dine and Dish, started a DietBet challenge this past month and invited me and other food bloggers to join her. I accepted the challenge and I’ve been super motivated to lose a little bit of weight. One of my favorite low calorie substitutes is substituting spaghetti squash for pasta. A cup of spaghetti squash has only 42 calories compared to about 220 calories for a cup of spaghetti.

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Classic Pot Roast and Potatoes

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A classic pot roast and potatoes recipe made faster and more delicious in the pressure cooker.  Pot roast is one of the comfort foods that reminds me of the wonderful Sunday dinners mom cooked when I was growing up. It’s a meal I love to serve my family and making it in the pressure cooker gets me out of the kitchen in less than half the time.

Sunday I shared a tip about using small potatoes when making pot roast and potatoes in the pressure cooker. Today, I’m sharing  the America’s Test Kitchen, Pressure Cooker Perfection, Classic Pot Roast and Potatoes recipe the tip came from, adapted for the electric pressure cooker.

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Pressure Cooker Tip: Small Potatoes

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Congratulations to Diane the winner of my Pressure Cooker Perfection cookbook giveaway!

Today I’m sharing a tip from the new pressure cooking cookbook from America’s Test Kitchen, Pressure Cooker Perfection. In their Classic Pot Roast and Potatoes recipe, they give a great tip:

Small potatoes 1 to 3-inches in diameter withstand the full 1 1/2 hours of cooking time required for the meat surprisinly well and turn perfectly creamy and tender (larger potatoes will break apart). Arranging the potatoes on top of the roast ensure they cook through at the same time.

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