A Month of Fast Cooking

I’m fond of my cookbook, Make It Fast, Cook It Slow*.  In fact, several of Stephanie O’Dea’s recipes have become family favorites.  How about crockpot tapioca, anyone?  However, the reality is that cooking with a slow cooker requires planning ahead, something I rarely do.  I’m much more of a “wing it at the last minute” kind of gal where dinners are concerned. I’ll bet you didn’t know that about me, considering I’m such a perfectionist and that at least 95% of what I cook or make is from scratch.  I recently added a pressure cooker to my arsenal of cooking gadgets and I LOVE IT! 

Sadly, though, I asked my friends for pressure cooker recipes and heard only, “I love it for pot roasts.”  Surely there is more to pressure cookers than pot roasts!  And so, inspired by Ms. O’Dea, who successfully undertook 365 consecutive days of cooking with her crockpot, but decidedly less ambitious, I hereby present my own challenge:  for the next thirty days I will prepare foods in my pressure cooker, using found, adapted, or invented recipes and will share the results here on The Frustrated Perfectionist.

As with many of my projects, my timing for this challenge is horrible:  in the next week I will be traveling out of state twice in addition to chaperoning an overnight junior high trip.  That means I will have to either get very creative or skip a few days in this challenge, but I’ll do my best and I promise I’ll make it up to you at the end.

*This book is available in major bookstores, but if want to purchase it online, please go through the author’s website so that she’ll receive a few extra pennies for her work.