Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Pancakes, in the pressure cooker, in little molds, so sort of like pancake muffins, they're yummy and super easy and totally hands off!





Ok, there's a ton of things you can do with a pressure cooker, and there's a ton of things you should NOT cook in it... just because you can doesn't ever mean you should.  That being said, pancake muffins... yeah man and you use a mix because, if you're going to junk food it, do it all the way.  No, not bisquick, sorry, but no.  get the cheapie all in one pancake mix, the one where you just add water, that's the level of hack we're doing here.  Trust me, when I go rogue, I go all the way and yeah, they're delicious, weird, sure, but yummy.  

Stick with me here, now, the short version:
My chocolate chip Pancake bites.
*In the 7cup “egg bites” silicone mold. They look weird but they're light and fluffy (for steamed puddings) and taste like pancakes, big shock, but also like muffins, also big shock! hahaha
Spray mold with non stick
Put 1 cup water and trivet in pot
Combine well:
1 cup “complete” pancake mix
3/4 cup water
Handful of chocolate chips
Full the mold, use it all.
High pressure 5 minutes
Npr rest for 5 minutes
Remove from pot and let rest 10 minutes.
Pop them out of the mold.
Eat with whatever dipping sauce floats your boat.
I’d say they save or freeze but it’s 7, they all go.

I'm doing a video but wanted to get the quick and dirty details out... enjoy, go make them!!!





Monday, August 27, 2018

Hot Smoked Salmon, inside, using the pressure cooker, this time an instant pot, seriously good, seriously easy

 

I have a smoker and regularly make hot smoked salmon.  I love my smoker and I wished my mom could have the same thing, she doesn't have a smoker.  She does, however, have an instant pot pressure cooker and I decided I would try to find a way she could make the salmon I make here but there, without a smoker.  I think I've done it.

TRACY'S HOT SMOKED SALMON, 

INDOORS, IN A PRESSURE COOKER


Ingredients: 

Salmon, with skin, in 1 inch pieces
salt, sugar, pinch of cinnamon
Pecan or hickory chips
water

Method: 

Cut the salmon into 1 inch pieces

Sprinkle fish with equal amounts of sugar and salt and sprinkle a little cinnamon, leave to dry at room temperature.

Make foil packet, open, with dry wood chips

 

Set pressure cooker to saute, put open foil packet with chips in it on the bottom of the liner pot, let heat and cycle through hot/on for the 30 mins setting. close lid

When cycle finishes, open lid, pour one generous tablespoon of water on the hot chips.
Put trivet and plate with salmon in the pot, close lid.

 

Time for 11 minutes.

  


  


Open, remove salmon, shut off pot.

EAT!

I've done this a number of times and it's delicious and I am thrilled that I can cook for my mom in another country, even though she doesn't have a smoker but we both have pressure cookers :)

x

/tracy

enjoy






Sunday, August 19, 2018

MY steamed Pork Buns, another use for my pressure cooker, as a steamer! bamboo baskets fit perfectly and tonight, it's leftover bbq pork steamed buns

Here's the video link to youtube:;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx4UYMvvqZA 

I made some 'chinese' bbq pork the other day and had a little left.  I chopped it into tiny pieces, threw it in a pan with some of the ingredients i used to make the pork, boiled it and set it aside.  i made some dough, pretty easy, and then married them... may i present my cheap eats, leftover bbq pork steamed buns... ala me


   

TRACY'S BAO(ish) bbq pork steamed buns


DOUGH:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp yeast
1 tsp sugar
3/4 cup room temperature water
DUMP it all iin a kitchen aid with dough hook, knead till smooth. OR do it by hand if you have that kind of time and energy
LET it rest, covered, till double, about 45 mins.
Divide into 12 
Roll into balls, let rest
WHILE THE DOUGH IS RESTING, make the filling: 
FILLING:
.
You need about 2 cups of chopped (tiny) meat filling (I made charsiu yesterday, recipe coming)
1 TB light soy
1 TB oyster sauce
1 TB hoisin
1 TB sugar
1/2 cup water
1 TB cornstarch
THROW it all in a saucepan, boil till it's thick, put aside.

Roll balls flat, there's a technique, i'll show you in the video tomorrow. put filling in each, seal and put on parchment squares and put in the steamer to rest about 10 mins.
Put steamer over boiling water, steam 15 mins, remove steamer, covered, and let it rest 5 mins.
Open, eat. 


I'm doing the play by plays and editing a video of the method and it'll be up tomorrow, for now here's the recipe 



BY WAY OF A TEASE; here's the pork