A while back I wrote about my Instant Pot and how much I like it. When folks talk about their Instant Pot, they're close to enraptured! While I’m all for loving your kitchen equipment, the more important thing is how tools help you in kitchen. Let’s face it, if you can cook and cleanup faster you get to spend more time doing what you want to do. Isn’t that part of the point of … [Read more...]
⏱Comfort Food Recipe Collection
No matter how carefully I plan, there are days when I just don’t know what to make for dinner. Sure, I've got my meal plan…but for a variety of reasons that dinner may not appeal to me. Maybe I haven’t been shopping and don’t have the ingredients. Maybe the weather and the meal don't fit. Or maybe I just don’t want to make what's planned. It happens. When it does, I turn … [Read more...]
⏱Kitchen Time Savers – Instant Pot
Somehow I missed the first phase of the Instant Pot revolution. I must’ve had my head in the sand in 2016 when they sold like hot cakes on Amazon Day. That Christmas season I missed them entirely from Black Friday through the frenetic Christmas selling season. I even missed them on Amazon Day 2017. But when Cyber Monday rolled around I’d heard so much about the Instant Pot that … [Read more...]
⏱Kitchen Time Savers – Produce Prep Round 2
After writing my initial post about produce prep, I got to thinking about other ways I shave off bits of time. In a slightly uncharacteristic move, I started collecting the ideas into a single place. In the past I’ve always just jotted them down wherever…never to be seen again. For some reason this time things were different. Maybe I'm learning! I realized that one of my … [Read more...]
Effective Grocery Shopping – Skip The Store
Previously I wrote about effective grocery shopping. I won’t remind you to use a list. You know that already, right? I’ve talked about having a plan for what you're purchasing and a scheme to avoid backtracking on your journey. In the future I’ll be adding more thoughts about maximizing your time in the store, but for today I want to talk about thinking differently. Have you … [Read more...]