a recipe I'm really looking forward to trying...

 How about a meatless chorizo recipe from Annie Hill?

Did someone say...

Pressure cooker?

Serious Eats has some excellent pressure cooker recipes you might want to check out.

Why you should be reading Serious Eats on a regular basis

Serious Eats (always a good read) seems to be running a series of pressure cooker chicken and bean recipes that kick some serious ass...

So far they've done Chicken, Lentil, and Bacon stew with Carrots,  Chicken and Black Bean Stew, and Chicken with Chickpeas,Tomato, and Chorizo.

Need I say more?

On pressure cookers making sense...

Over at SV Estrellita 5.10b (always a good read) they've discovered the wonderfulness of cooking with pressure...

Pressure cooker wonderfulness...

Our favorite pressure cooking resource Hip Pressure Cooking tells you what you need to know and shares the recipe...

French onion soup...

Over at my favorite pressure cooking blog there is an excellent post on adapting a recipe for pressure cooking... In this case a French onion soup recipe from Julia Child.

Provisions... A few thoughts on the dried stuff

I've been meaning to catch up on provisioning and it's funny how things change when looking at what you've eaten in hindsight.

For instance, we've eaten a lot of dried carrots over the last few months due to the fact that carrots have been silly expensive of late and at best rather low quality. Looking down the shopping list it also becomes apparent that the same could be said for broccoli. At $3.69 a pound broccoli has us reaching for the dried stuff on a regular basis...

The other dried vegetables we use all the time is the Harmony House dried vegetable soup mix that we never use as a soup but more of a throw-a-handful-in-the pressure-cooker-with-whatever-we-are-cooking-for-a-vegetable-boost sort of thing. Seriously, I should buy this stuff by the case...

Color me impressed...

Over at HIP Pressure cooking an exceptional way to cook a whole chicken!

Ribs...

Lobster Squad gets it right...

Under pressure...

Pressure cooking is really a no-brainer for folks on boats as it's fast, contained, and makes food that tastes really good... What's not to like?

Hip pressure cooking is now our blog of choice for pressure cooking goodness. Perfect for newbies to the wonders of pressure cooking and more than interesting for those of us who have been cooking under pressure for years...

For instance take today's post, an A to Z for a five minute meat sauce/ragu. Tasty, fast, and perfect for a meal on a boat!

Braised red cabbage...

Cabbage is something of a cruising staple as it keeps for ages without refrigeration and is more often than not ...cheap. What's not to like?

Sadly though, most folks don't do the noble cabbage justice when it comes to bringing it to the table and some might even be surprised that it is for something other than cole slaw or  an adjunct to corned beef...

Lucky for us that LobsterSquad has an awesome recipe for Braised Red Cabbage using a pressure cooker!  Perfect for a holiday or any old day...

All sorts of squiddy goodness...

Over at Fishing Under Sail we've showed you people catching squid and here we've shown you how to clean the critters...

Maybe we should point you to a great recipe so you can cook your squid in a pressure cooker?

Lucky for us, Laura over at the most excellent Hip Pressure Cooking has a great pressure cooker recipe just filled with squiddy goodness...

Since the subject of pressure cooking came up...

Since we're on the subject of pressure cookers...

I was actually serious about wanting another pressure cooker. I'd love a small one that would fit in my sea swing which would be a huge help from time to time. That said, an on-board still would be no bad thing either!

The thing about pressure cookers is that a lot of folks either believe the hype that they are bombs just waiting to go off or, even worse, they have eaten horrible meals thrown together in a pressure cooker and they think that everything à la pression is going to taste yucky.

Folks, it does not have to be like that... and we never do "yucky" at Island Gourmand as we are a certified "yucky " and "Barry Manilow" free zone!

One of the problems is that most cookbooks of the pressure cooker variety are, shall we say, really awful, but that does not quite convey the gravity of the awfulness that is most pressure cooking cookbooks...

The first issue I have with said really awful cookbooks is the fact that they tend to make complicated recipes which is sort of exactly NOT what pressure cooking is all about. If you find a pressure cooker recipe that reads like rocket science, remember the famous words of Robby the Robot...

"Danger, Danger Will Robinson..."

...and avoid it like the plague! Another danger sign for pressure cooking recipes is the use of canned anything (though I make an exception to that rule with tomatoes and tomato paste).

A couple of excellent, simple, safe, and boat friendly (for the most part) cookbooks you may want to check out would be "Pressure Perfect" and "Cooking Under Pressure" by Lorna Sass. Either would be a great place to get your pressure on...

Really simple chicken...

Lobstersquad on how to poach your chicken in a pressure cooker...

More Pressure drop...

LobsterSquad comes up with another hit-it-out-of-the-park winner doing the old pressure cooker standby of Rice Pudding...