Product Description

The Ultimate Pressure–Cooker Cookbook

Nobody knows more about pressure cookers than Vickie Smith, creator of the leading pressure–cooker Web site, MissVickie.com. Now, at last, Miss Vickie has gathered all of her pressure–cooker wisdom into a book. Whether you′re a pressure–cooker newcomer or a longtime fan, you′ll find all the recipes, techniques, and tips you need for a lifetime of great pressure–cooker meals.

Miss Vickie′s Big Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes is jam–packed with nearly 400 fast, tasty, foolproof recipes, ranging from one–pot meals like Chicken and Rice with Mushrooms to Sweet and Sour Pork, Navy Bean Soup, and Chocolate Malt Cheesecake. Miss Vickie′s detailed recipe instructions and special techniques, such as "pan in pot" pressure cooking, guarantee that each dish comes out perfectly cooked––and perfectly delicious.

But Miss Vickie gives you more than just great recipes. Her book also provides in–depth guidance on every aspect of choosing and using a pressure cooker, including:
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A buyers′ guide to modern pressure cookers
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Step–by–step pressure–cooker instructions
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Pressure–cooker safety
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Basic and advanced pressure–cooking techniques
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Common mistakes in pressure cookery
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Adapting recipes to the pressure cooker
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Tips, tricks, and troubleshooting


Offering hundreds of recipes that are proven to work––and proven delicious––plus plain–English answers to all of your pressure–cooker questions, Miss Vickie has created the single most useful pressure–cooker book ever published. It′s a resource you′ll turn to again and again as you explore the world of pressure–cooker possibilities and pleasures.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #106139 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Review
Smith, founder of MissVickie.com, a highly trafficked Web site devoted to all things steam–pressured, compiles her expertise in a single tome, covering the history of pressure cookery from its inception in the 17th century to its resurgence today. Smith extols pressure cooking’s benefits, including fuel efficiency, faster cooking time, reduced fats, higher levels of nutrient retention and the ability to create lower–cost one–pot meals. Several pages are devoted to exact cooking times for specific vegetables, meats, fish, beans and even pasta shapes. Though there are a fair number of recipes featuring legumes, for example, this cookbook is mainly geared to a meat–eating audience. As might be expected, a good deal are stewlike creations, but Smith covers eclectic ground with dishes like Italian Seasoned Veal Tortellini Stew; Walnut Chicken Braised in Pomegranate Juice; and Mexican Posole (pork stew with green chile and hominy). Outside of the one–pot meals are ragus, pilafs and pulled meats for sandwich stuffing. Smith even rounds up some intriguing desserts like Sweet Dumpling Flan with Caramel Sauce and a basic bread pudding with six variations. Eminently thorough and enlightening, Smith’s cookbook is bound to please the beginner pressure cooker and aficionado alike. (Mar.) (Publishers Weekly, January 7, 2007)

Review
"Eminently thorough and enlightening.... Smith′s cookbook is bound to please the beginner pressure cooker and aficionado alike." (Publishers Weekly, January 7, 2007)

"...the ′must have′ cookbook for anyone who wants to feel confident about choosing and using a pressure cooker." (MostlyFood.co.uk, November 20th 2008)

From the Back Cover
The Ultimate Pressure–Cooker Cookbook

Nobody knows more about pressure cookers than Vickie Smith, creator of the leading pressure–cooker Web site, MissVickie.com. Now, at last, Miss Vickie has gathered all of her pressure–cooker wisdom into a book. Whether you′re a pressure–cooker newcomer or a longtime fan, you′ll find all the recipes, techniques, and tips you need for a lifetime of great pressure–cooker meals.

Miss Vickie′s Big Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes is jam–packed with nearly 400 fast, tasty, foolproof recipes, ranging from one–pot meals like Chicken and Rice with Mushrooms to Sweet and Sour Pork, Navy Bean Soup, and Chocolate Malt Cheesecake. Miss Vickie′s detailed recipe instructions and special techniques, such as "pan in pot" pressure cooking, guarantee that each dish comes out perfectly cooked—and perfectly delicious.

But Miss Vickie gives you more than just great recipes. Her book also provides in–depth guidance on every aspect of choosing and using a pressure cooker, including:

• A buyers′ guide to modern pressure cookers

• Step–by–step pressure–cooker instructions

• Pressure–cooker safety

• Basic and advanced pressure–cooking techniques

• Common mistakes in pressure cookery

• Adapting recipes to the pressure cooker

• Tips, tricks, and troubleshooting

Offering hundreds of recipes that are proven to work—and proven delicious—plus plain–English answers to all of your pressure–cooker questions, Miss Vickie has created the single most useful pressure–cooker book ever published. It′s a resource you′ll turn to again and again as you explore the world of pressure–cooker possibilities and pleasures.

Customer Reviews

American recipes!
This is a lovely thick book packed with recipes but they are all in American quantities, i.e. cups. Personally I find this difficult to use and had to download a conversion chart off the web.

Packed with information but limited in taste
Having recently bought a pressure cooker I bought this book in the hopes that it would go some way in expanding my current very limited repertoire.

Miss Vickie is obviously very experienced in pressure cooking. She goes in to some depth explaining the history of pressure cooking, how to choose a pressure cooker and general safety tips and timings. All very useful.

However - in terms of recipes I am deeply disappointed. The chicken section - although it contains a well stocked 88 recipes..... all but 10 of them are with chicken breasts! There is not one chicken curry or stew using other chicken parts though there is a barbecued chicken recipe using various parts. This hardly teaches us how to cook a variety of chicken. Also of these chicken recipes a staggering 41 one of them are what I would call "sweet" recipes using fruit such as pineapple, cranberries, orange something that I don't like at all.. the remainder almost all include either mushrooms or a white sauce.

Miss Vickie obviously knows her stuff. The question is whether your taste buds are aligned with hers in liking all of your main courses sticky and sweet!

Big Pressure

too big and cumbersome for me but delighted my son-in-law whose food is constantly under pressure like himself