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The Pressured Cook: Over 75 One-Pot Meals In Minutes, Made In Today's 100% Safe Pressure Cookers
The follow-up to Cooking Under Pressure, the classic and bestselling book on the topic, this is Lorna Sass's first new pressure-cooker cookbook in nine years. These seventy-five delicious recipes, perfect for the single person or the family on the go, can be prepared in the pressure cooker in one-third the normal time or less. Many of the recipes can be prepared in less than ten minutes, including Risotto with Butternut Squash and Sage -- ready in less than eight minutes -- and even a few desserts. These recipes are also low in fat, since cooking under pressure locks in the flavor and only minimal use of butter and oil is required.
The time is right for a new pressure cooker cookbook -- pressure cookers are selling better than ever. And today's pressure cookers are safer than ever -- fears in the past about the safety of jiggle-top cookers are no more with these safe new cookers, this cookbook will be essential for anyone who has ever thought, "How can I get a delicious meal on the table, fast?"
The time is right for a new pressure cooker cookbook -- pressure cookers are selling better than ever. And today's pressure cookers are safer than ever -- fears in the past about the safety of jiggle-top cookers are no more with these safe new cookers, this cookbook will be essential for anyone who has ever thought, "How can I get a delicious meal on the table, fast?"
259 pages, Hardcover
First published February 17, 1999
About the author
Lorna J. Sass
24 books7 followersLorna Sass is fondly known as "the Queen of Pressure Cooking." She is also a widely published food writer and an award-winning cookbook author. Check out her new blog: www.pressurecookingwithlornasass.word...
Lorna became interested in pressure cooking during the mid-eighties when most Americans had either never heard of this magical appliance or were afraid of it! Her COOKING UNDER PRESSURE, published in 1989, became a best-seller with over 250,000 copies in print. The 20th-Anniversary revised edition of COOKING UNDER PRESSURE came out on November 3,2009.
Lorna followed COOKING UNDER PRESSURE with 3 other pressure cooker books: GREAT VEGETARIAN COOKING UNDER PRESSURE (VEGAN!), THE PRESSURED COOK, and PRESSURE PERFECT.
During the nineties, Lorna wrote numerous vegan cookbooks, recognizing that a vegan approach to food created a much smaller carbon footprint. This was decades before cookbook authors were writing about the connection between food and sustainability. Her RECIPES FROM AN ECOLOGICAL KITCHEN was published in 1992! Her NEW VEGAN COOKBOOK was nominated for an IACP Award and her latest title in this category is SHORT-CUT VEGAN.
Her fourteenth cookbook, WHOLE GRAINS EVERY DAY, EVERY WAY, published in 2006, was awarded the prestigious James Beard Award in the "healthy focus" category. Her latest cookbook, WHOLE GRAINS FOR BUSY PEOPLE, focuses on quick-cooking recipes for cooks on the go.
Lorna has often found herself ahead of her time. While studying for her PhD in medieval literature at Columbia University, she wrote four historical cookbooks that were published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art--decades before anyone was studying food history!
Lorna's food articles have been published in dozens of prominent newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Gourmet, and Bon Appetit. In addition to her own blogs, she has blogged for The Huffington Post and Green Fork, and wrote a monthly recipe column for localharvest.org.
She is a member of Slow Food, The Author's Guild, and the Women's Culinary Alliance and an alumna of Les Dames des Escoffier, an organization of the top women in the food industry.
Lorna's current passion is to make healthy food available to all, and she is especially eager to help people grow their own food on rooftops and in community gardens in NYC.
Lorna became interested in pressure cooking during the mid-eighties when most Americans had either never heard of this magical appliance or were afraid of it! Her COOKING UNDER PRESSURE, published in 1989, became a best-seller with over 250,000 copies in print. The 20th-Anniversary revised edition of COOKING UNDER PRESSURE came out on November 3,2009.
Lorna followed COOKING UNDER PRESSURE with 3 other pressure cooker books: GREAT VEGETARIAN COOKING UNDER PRESSURE (VEGAN!), THE PRESSURED COOK, and PRESSURE PERFECT.
During the nineties, Lorna wrote numerous vegan cookbooks, recognizing that a vegan approach to food created a much smaller carbon footprint. This was decades before cookbook authors were writing about the connection between food and sustainability. Her RECIPES FROM AN ECOLOGICAL KITCHEN was published in 1992! Her NEW VEGAN COOKBOOK was nominated for an IACP Award and her latest title in this category is SHORT-CUT VEGAN.
Her fourteenth cookbook, WHOLE GRAINS EVERY DAY, EVERY WAY, published in 2006, was awarded the prestigious James Beard Award in the "healthy focus" category. Her latest cookbook, WHOLE GRAINS FOR BUSY PEOPLE, focuses on quick-cooking recipes for cooks on the go.
Lorna has often found herself ahead of her time. While studying for her PhD in medieval literature at Columbia University, she wrote four historical cookbooks that were published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art--decades before anyone was studying food history!
Lorna's food articles have been published in dozens of prominent newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Gourmet, and Bon Appetit. In addition to her own blogs, she has blogged for The Huffington Post and Green Fork, and wrote a monthly recipe column for localharvest.org.
She is a member of Slow Food, The Author's Guild, and the Women's Culinary Alliance and an alumna of Les Dames des Escoffier, an organization of the top women in the food industry.
Lorna's current passion is to make healthy food available to all, and she is especially eager to help people grow their own food on rooftops and in community gardens in NYC.
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June 18, 2013
I checked this book out from the library several months ago and made a couple of the recipes that turned out well. Then I checked out another of Lorna Sass's books - Pressure Perfect. So I'm doing a combined review.
I was grateful for the beginning chapters about using pressure cookers in general, even old, non-fancy ones. There were a lot of good tips and basic instructions.
I have made 5 or 6 recipes from these books and have been very impressed. They all turned out perfectly! With most of them I really expected something to go wrong - burn on the bottom, not be cooked, dry out, etc. but I followed the directions exactly and was amazed when things turned out. I cooked pasta with 1 cup of water, dry beans in 25 minutes, and risotto without stirring at the stove forever.
I will be looking for more books about pressure cooking, especially by Lorna Sass.
I was grateful for the beginning chapters about using pressure cookers in general, even old, non-fancy ones. There were a lot of good tips and basic instructions.
I have made 5 or 6 recipes from these books and have been very impressed. They all turned out perfectly! With most of them I really expected something to go wrong - burn on the bottom, not be cooked, dry out, etc. but I followed the directions exactly and was amazed when things turned out. I cooked pasta with 1 cup of water, dry beans in 25 minutes, and risotto without stirring at the stove forever.
I will be looking for more books about pressure cooking, especially by Lorna Sass.
July 5, 2019
very good recipes, not specifically for Instant Pot, but works in the instant pot. Lots of good, one pot suppers with easy to source ingredients.
August 16, 2011
This is a great book!! I am starting a new love affair with an old pressure cooker. It is so easy to make quick week day meals. I HATE slow cookers and this is the far superior nemesis to the slow cooker in my mind. Throw everything in and instead of 5 hours later, you have dinner ready in 20 minutes. Lamb falling off the bone, risotto piping hot, you name it! Yum yum! This is a great book for starters. Comes with tips on using your pressure cooker and gentle reassurance that you're not going to blow up your kitchen, the fear of all novice cooks!! :)
January 11, 2017
Loses one star for no pictures and other for recommending the cold water method. What is the deal with this recommendation? Can people really not wait? Are the recipes not adapted for the additional cooking time?
There is zero discussion of electric vs cooktop pressure cookers. I see no reason why every cookbook needs this discussion; but if there is a discussion...there better be some serious effort to include adaptations. So, no stars lost there.
I will be trying three or four of the recipes. They look interesting enough! I will try to remember to report back.
There is zero discussion of electric vs cooktop pressure cookers. I see no reason why every cookbook needs this discussion; but if there is a discussion...there better be some serious effort to include adaptations. So, no stars lost there.
I will be trying three or four of the recipes. They look interesting enough! I will try to remember to report back.
November 15, 2011
A good solid cookbook - nothing fancy, just good hearty recipes with easy to follow instructions including clear steps for the different stages with which you need to employ the pressure cooker.
February 16, 2015
No photos! It's so hard to be inspired to try new recipes if there are no visual aids to get my mouth watering. Seemed outdated. Not inspired at all.
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