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Instant Pot Day-After-Thanksgiving Turkey Soup with Mashed Potato Dumplings

I have a confession: I didn’t make this soup the Day After Thanksgiving. I stashed the leftovers from my Christmas turkey in the freezer…and forgot about them. I was googling around for a recipe idea when I stumbled across the idea of mashed potato dumplings. That’s when I remembered the frozen turkey bones in my freezer, and the leftover mashed potatoes from Sunday dinner....

January 22, 2019

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Pressure cooker, Sunday dinner

Throwback Thursday: Crispy Chickpeas

by Mike Vrobel

I was chatting with a foodie friend at work, and she complained about cooking garbanzo beans. “Chickpeas!” I said. “They’re easy in the Instant Pot!” (Garbanzo beans! Chickpeas! Garbanzo beans! Chickpeas!) Then I told her about the joys of crispy chickpeas, especially when you cook them from dried. Now, you don’t have to cook them yourself – the recipe will work with canned chickpeas....

January 17, 2019

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Ramblings, Throwback

Instant Pot Chipotle Beans

by Mike Vrobel

When I’m not busy being a food nerd, I’m a Science Fiction and Fantasy nerd. (I’m sure this is a shock to all of you.) One of my favorite authors is Ursala Vernon; her Clockwork Boys series were , and she mentioned “Chipotle Beans” on Twitter a while back. I immediately thought “What a great idea!” Instant Pot Chipotle Beans, here we come. So...

January 15, 2019

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Pressure cooker, Side dish

PicOfTheWeek: Browned Beef for Broth

by Mike Vrobel

We had a bit of a snowstorm blow through yesterday. To celebrate the first real snow of the season, I made a big batch of beef broth for Vegetable Beef Soup. Here’s the biggest of the beef soup bones after some serious browning in the oven.

January 13, 2019

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PicOfTheWeek

Things I Love: Diced Chipotles

by Mike Vrobel

This is a callback to my first DadCooksDinner post. It was a recipe for pureed chipotle en adobo. Calling it a “Recipe” is hyperbole; at most it’s a cooking hack. Dump a can of chipotle peppers into a food processor and pulse until smooth. I had to start with it because I use it in my second post, Quick Red Salsa. I add chipotle...

January 10, 2019

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Things I love

Instant Pot German Pot Roast with Mustard (Senfbraten)

by Mike Vrobel

Grandma said: If you want luck in the New Year, you have to have pork on New Year’s Day. Who am I to argue with Grandma? Here’s my New Year’s day recipe inspired by the German side of my family, Instant Pot German Pot Roast with Mustard. In Germany this is a Senfbraten, or mustard roast, pork rubbed with mustard and cooked with onions,...

January 8, 2019

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Pressure cooker, Sunday dinner