A simple low carb and vegetarian pasta, perfectly light for summer. First, cut your spaghetti squash in half and scoop out the seeds. Place spaghetti squash into instant pot with 1 cup of water. Cook spaghetti squash for 8 minutes on manual. While spaghetti is cooking, prep other ingredients. Chop tomato, shallot and garlic. Once…
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Instant Pot Spaghetti Meat Sauce
A spaghetti sauce simmering for a longer period of time on the stovetop always makes it more delicious. Luckily the Instant Pot makes things a little easier and faster. This is a recipe I’ve been making for some time for spaghetti sauce. I usually don’t measure when I cook which can be erratic, writing this…
Instant Pot Tender Beef with Spinach
This soy sauce based recipe is a favorite of my daughters and one of my preferred ways of making beef chuck. I often make this with a combination of vegetables, such as long or green beans, chayote and bok choy, but this time went the simple route of just spinach in trying this out in…
Pressure Cooked Hard “Boiled” Eggs
“Boiling” eggs in a pressure cooker seemed a little over the top the first time I even saw it mentioned. It doesn’t reduce any dishes, it’s not that hard to boil eggs in the first place (once you get the process down), what’s the big deal? We’re a big fan of soft to hard boiled…
Chicken Afritada in the Instant Pot
Chicken Afritada is a Filipino stew cooked in a tomato based sauce. It’s a Spanish influenced dish and similar to caldereta, which is made with beef. I’ve been craving a stew with the weather so chilly here in California in the evenings and mornings and this was perfect. In this recipe I used chicken breast…
Quick & Easy Scalloped Potatoes in the Instant Pot
Scalloped potatoes not from a box? I’d never tried it personally until now. My oldest daughter loves the boxed version so I decided to try making them for her in the Instant Pot and I’m amazed how well they turned out. I used about 2 pounds of yellow or Yukon potatoes. I love these potatoes….
Chicken Adobo Drumsticks in the Pressure Cooker
When I first asked my mom for her adobo recipe, she would say things like, “add a little bit of,” “you could add,”, “maybe this”, “cook until…” Being new to cooking then, it was daunting! I had no idea if a “little bit” was a teaspoon or a cup. She doesn’t have a recipe for…
Filipino Frittata / Omelette with Ground Beef, Mushroom and Broccoli (Instant Pot)
Torta, tortang? I’m still not sure what this is called in Filipino cuisine, but it’s essentially a frittata or omelette usually cooked with ground meat and whatever vegetables you may have on hand. And eggs, of course! My mom used to make this a lot with eggplant, tortang talong, but I’m making it today with…
Blackberry Cobbler (Pressure Cooker)
The Sprouts grocery store in my area had blackberries on sale, 3 packs for $5. Although we love berries around here, there’s no way we could’ve eaten them all before they go bad. Sometimes I’ll just freeze various fruits in this case for use in smoothies later, but this time I decided to make a…
Miso Noodle Soup with Tofu and Chicken (Instant Pot or Stovetop)
Miso soup is one of those unusual things even my youngest, super picky, only wants to eat chicken nuggets and spaghetti daughter will eat despite turning her nose at the mere idea of tofu or, God forbid, seaweed. Ewwww. But at some point in her life she tried it and apparently liked it. I don’t…