The Everything Pressure Cooker Cookbook (Everything Series) [Paperback]

Pamela Rice Hahn (Author)

Book Description

Series: Everything Series | Publication Date: September 18, 2009

Pressure cookers will boost flavor and cut cooking time a whopping 70 percent?but only if you know how to use them. In this cookbook, author Pamela Rice Hahn teaches you about the joys of cooking with a pressure cooker. No longer the dangers they once were, these time-saving devices are godsends to busy cooks everywhere. In no time, you can whip up:

• Roasted Red Bell Pepper Pesto
• Cranberry-Braised Turkey Breast
• Balsamic Pork Chops with Figs
• Halibut in Black Olive Sauce
• Peanut Butter and Fudge Cheesecake

For that slow-cooked taste in far less time, a pressure cooker is the perfect solution. Veteran cookbook author Hahn has been conjuring up recipes using her pressure cooker for years. With a full spectrum of pressure cooker recipes at your fingertips, you can create delicious breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert dishes in no time flat!

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About the Author

Pamela Rice Hahn (Celina, OH) is the author of hundreds of food- and cooking-related, medical, and general interest articles, as well as eighteen books, which include The Everything Low-Salt Cookbook; The Everything Diabetes Cookbook; The Everything One-Pot Cookbook, 2nd Edition; and The Everything Slow Cooker Cookbook, 2nd Edition. In addition to extensive food columns and articles online, Hahn?s food articles have appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine?s ?Backburner? column. She has also written for Glamour, Country Living, Business Venture, Current Notes, and other national publications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media (September 18, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1440500177
• ISBN-13: 978-1440500176
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,621 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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64 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good recipes, could be a 5 star, September 10, 2010

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MaryAnn (CT) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Everything Pressure Cooker Cookbook (Everything Series) (Paperback)

I recently purchased my first pressure cooker and was looking for a good cookbook for it. I ordered this book and another by Cinda Chavich. This book easily could have been a five star but for a couple of issues.
1. The author uses an electric pressure cooker which has 3 settings for pressure (low, medium & high) I have a stove top cooker with no variable setting. If it included cooking times or some sort of directions for cooking in a stove top cooker it would have been extremely helpful. If you have an electric cooker or variable psi settings this book would work very well for you.
2. The index in the book is so useless it really would have been better if they omitted it altogether. If you're looking for a chicken recipes it simply says chicken and list page numbers. There is no place in the book that you can go to for a full list of recipes.
3. The tables of cooking times would be more helpful if they included the amount of water. The other cookbook I purchased had much better cooking charts.

Overall the recipes I have tried have all been very good and easy to follow. They are very basic recipes without a lot of fussy ingredients, perfect for everyday meals. I like that it includes a good variety of recipes including breakfast as well. Overall I really do enjoy the cookbook a great deal.

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Love/Hate Cooking Affair, February 9, 2010

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Jane Austen "luvtoread" (Hartford, CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Everything Pressure Cooker Cookbook (Everything Series) (Paperback)

My neighbor and I bought ourselves new pressure cookers and along with the cookbooks that come with the cookers we purchased this cookbook. I love this book because it has some great recipes. I hate this book because the index "sucks", you have to go the beginning of each chapter to find the page references for the recipes. Remember to add salt because often, following the recipe results in undersalted dishes. (This is certainly not the biggest offense). The editor for the book didn't catch the fact that several recipes are repeated. And finally be careful with the directions, I have found ingredients referred to in the instructions which are not in the ingredient lists and always remember to saute your onions before sealing your cooker up - raw onions can mess up the flavor! But despite all these caveats I really do enjoy this cookbook - it an my new pressure cooker have been my latest culinary inspiration!

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Recipes; Quirky Organization, July 10, 2010

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Rational "Sensible" (High Point, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Everything Pressure Cooker Cookbook (Everything Series) (Paperback)

I've tried two recipes so far--Old South Chicken Stew (Brunswick) and Stuffed Green Peppers. Both were excellent. I've read other recipes and they seem as if they'll be good, too. Don't be misled by the publisher's list of example recipes on(pork with figs, and so on). The book has few weirdo recipes with "twists." They're mostly normal comfort food. But the book is organized in a very bizarre fashion. The editor should have caught this problem. For example, there's a section for Chicken. But two thirds of the chicken recipes are not in the chicken section! Chicken recipes are scattered throughout different sections such as Stews, International Flavors, and so on. Sometimes a recipe is put in the wrong category. "Grandmother's Chicken Casserole" for instance, is mysteriously put in the International section. She says it's "French-inspired" but .... And probably as a result of both the book's inherent disorganization, combined with no indexing skills, the book's Index is the worst I've seen in many years. For example, look up Chicken and you just see 30 page numbers, not a list of the names of the recipes. Big help. So, I'd say buy the book for the good eats and tolerate the poor editing. If indeed anyone edited the book. One final note: the publishers have apparently copyrighted the word "Everything." Well, that's one less word I can use in a title of one of my own books. Rats! I think I'll try to copyright the word "The."