I need some holiday gift ideas (that I will probably gift to myself as well)!

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Anything sous vide (if yours has a sous vide button). You can use ziplock bags in Leiu of a vac sealer. Chicken or steak sous vide and then quick seared in a hot pan for color is the best.

    Olive Garden style Chicken Gnocchi soup (dozens of copycat recipes online). You can buy pre-packaged gnocchi or make it yourself. Get a loaf of French bread to toast cheap at the grocery store and it’ll blow your mind.

    Basically any Chili recipe can be made 5-10x faster pressure cooked. No need to simmer it for hours.

    Use it as a rice cooker. Pressure cooked white rice tastes like Chinese restaurant sticky rice and take 10 minutes. Get a box of frozen orange chicken from Costco and you’ve got Orange chicken over rice in about 18 minutes. Or cook some refried beans, brown rice, and fried eggs for a quick breakfast. Nothing beats a salt and pepper runny yolk egg soaked into rice.

    Hard boiling eggs you mentioned already, but if you like egg salad it’s a great way to make easy peal boiled eggs for mashing into egg salad in the fridge.

    Those are just a few things I use mine for ranging from moderate to simple.

    • MIDItheKID@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Hah. I think my problem might be that I have gadgets for all of these things already.

      I have a sous vide, so no need to use it for that

      Chili I usually make in my slow cooker because it yields larger amounts (I usually fill the whole thing up and freeze a bunch of it)

      I have a Zojirushi rice cooker, but I’m willing to try the instant pot if it is faster. I will check that out.

      Chicken Gnocchi soup sounds amazing though.