I’m making hummus for a party.

Throwback to quick pork tacos, one of my “break out in case of emergency” meals

This is the recipe that really made my blog take off. For a while, it was the number one result for pressure cooker mac and cheese on Google. It may have lost its Google ranking1, but it’s still one of my favorites. I’m making a double batch of mac and cheese tonight. My kids are helping decorate their high school for the Big Rivalry Game™, and Dad Cooks Dinner needs to show his support. (And, normally I prefer the stainless steel inner pot for my Instant Pot, but for this recipe I pull out the nonstick inner pot to make it easier to clean up.) Recipe: Pressure Cooker Mac and Cheese Link: Pressure Cooker Macaroni and Cheese – DadCooksDinner Related recipes Pressure Cooker Chili Mac – DadCooksDinner Instant Pot Fettuccine Chicken Alfredo – DadCooksDinner Pressure Cooker Baked Ziti – DadCooksDinner My other Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Recipes Enjoyed this post? Want to help out DadCooksDinner? Subscribe to DadCooksDinner via email and share this post with your friends. Want to contribute directly? Donate to my Tip …

For the last dinner before the kids start school, I wanted something fancier than our usual Taco Tuesday. It’s time for enchiladas! Recipe Link: Pressure Cooker Beef Brisket Enchiladas with Red Chile Sauce Related Posts Instant Pot Flank Steak Tacos Instant Pot Rotisserie Chicken Tortilla Soup Instant Pot Carnitas My other Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Recipes What do you think? Questions? Other ideas? Leave them in the comments section below. Enjoyed this post? Want to help out DadCooksDinner? Subscribe to DadCooksDinner via email and share this post with your friends. Want to contribute directly? Donate to my Tip Jar, or buy something from Amazon.com through the links on this site. Thank you.

Throwback: Brown Rice in the pressure cooker

Ah, the joys of getting older. I’m scheduled for my first colonoscopy tomorrow, and today I have to eat – or should I say, drink – an all-liquid diet. I spent the weekend stocking up with…stock. This is my batch of browed beef broth, today’s dinner. (And breakfast, and lunch…) Recipes Pressure Cooker Browned Beef Stock (Pictured above) Pressure Cooker Browned Chicken Broth Pressure Cooker Vegetable Broth Enjoyed this post? Want to help out DadCooksDinner? Subscribe to DadCooksDinner via email and share this post with your friends. Want to contribute directly? Donate to my Tip Jar, or buy something from Amazon.com through the links on this site. Thank you.

Chicken noodle soup from a rotisserie chicken

Memorial Day weekend – it’s time to grill!

I had an…opportunity, yeah, that’s it, an opportunity to look up my own instructions on what to do if you dump water into your Instant Pot base without the liner in it. Two opportunities, to be exact – someone made the same mistake twice in a row. It’s a good thing I have four pressure cookers… While I was drying them out, I took a few pictures of removing the plastic Vent Cover on the new(er) Instant Pot Duo Plus, Ultra, and Max, and updated my What to Do post. The only real gotcha was the Instant Pot Max, which uses a Torx T15 screw. I had to dig deep into my toolbox to find that one. (The Duo Plus and Ultra use a Phillips head screw.) Post: What to Do if I Dump Liquid Into My Instant Pot Without the Pot Liner – DadCooksDinner What do you think? Questions? Other ideas? Leave them in the comments section below. Enjoyed this post? Want to help out DadCooksDinner? Subscribe to DadCooksDinner via email and share this …

Who knew clear broth would be so controversial? When I used 8 ounces of ground beef to clarify the broth for my tortellini en brodo, I got a lot of angry and confused comments. (They weren’t angry, they were just…disappointed.) Clarifying broth with ground meat, egg white, or a combination of both is a trick from French consommé. The protein congeals into a raft, acting as a natural filter and absorbing a lot of the impurities in the broth. When you skim off the raft, what’s left is a clear broth.1 But 8 ounces of ground beef crossed some sort of line. “That’s wasteful” seemed to underly the comments. I kind of get it – It wasn’t a cheap broth to begin with, using chicken wings and oxtail as well as the ground beef. (Let alone all of the vegetables.) On the other hand, an ultra-rich broth is the point of the recipe. If all I am serving is broth and tortellini, I want as rich of a broth as possible. Of course, you can …

A green side from my Instant Pot – pressure cooker kale with garlic and lemon.

Time for a drumstick

Make-ahead meals for a party

Went out for dinner with friends, to a local Korean restaurant, Seoul Garden in Cuyahoga Falls, and had daeji-bulgogi, or Korean BBQ pork. Seoul Garden serves it like fajitas, on a smoking hot cast-iron sizzle plate, and the smell was heavenly as they brought it to the table. Which reminds me…I haven’t made weeknight Korean BBQ in a while… Recipe: Pressure Cooker (or Instant Pot) Korean BBQ Pork Lettuce Wraps Link: Pressure Cooker Korean BBQ Pork Lettuce Wraps – DadCooksDinner What do you think? Questions? Other ideas? Leave them in the comments section below. Related Posts Pressure Cooker Korean Braised Short RibsKorean Grilled Beef Lettuce Wraps (Bulgogi)Grilled Korean Chicken WingsMy other Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Recipes Enjoyed this post? Want to help out DadCooksDinner? Subscribe to DadCooksDinner via email and share this post with your friends. Want to contribute directly? Donate to my Tip Jar, or buy something from Amazon.com through the links on this site. Thank you.

A recipe roundup for St. Patrick’s Day