Cookbook Giveaway!
[UPDATE 1/13/2013 - Entries are now closed. The winner is announced in this post]
Laura is the writer behind HipPressureCooking.com, and is an official Friend of DadCooksDinner. I love her creative take on pressure cooking, and her thorough approach to testing pressure cookers.
Her first cookbook, The Everything Healthy Pressure Cooker Cookbook, came out a few months back, and was kind enough to send me a copy. So we're having a giveaway!
*Laura says that this was a work-for-hire book, and the real Hip Pressure Cooking cookbook is scheduled for 2014.
To enter the giveaway, leave a comment (in the giveaway post on my blog, DadCooksDinner.com) with your favorite pressure cooker story. After you leave the comment, Laura asks that you head over to her website, HipPressureCooking.com, and sign up for her email newsletter.
To get us started, here is...
My family pressure cooker story
This story is from my aunt, who shared it with me after she read one of my pressure cooker recipes.
My grandmother Mim was at church with the rest of the family. They had just sat down in the pew when she jumped out of her seat and hurried out of the church without saying a word.
Granddad, my aunts, and my uncle were looking back and forth at each other, wondering what was going on. She came back twenty minutes later and sat down as if nothing happened. They were all curious, but she just shushed them when they tried to ask her questions - it was in the middle of mass after all.
When the service was over, she confessed. In the rush to get everyone out the door for church, she forgot to turn off the burner under the pressure cooker. She remembered right after she sat down - there was a bomb ticking in her kitchen. Luckily, she got home to find the pressure valves hissing away, letting steam escape the cooker. She took a deep breath, turned off the burner, and went back to church.
The Fine Print:
One entry per person, and please make sure there is some way I can get in touch with you through the comment. (In other words...no anonymous comments, unless you identify yourself in the text of the comment.) The comment has to be in this post on DadCooksDinner.com; emails, entries on my Facebook page, retweets, and notes delivered by two large gentlemen who don't want any "accidents" to happen will not be considered for the drawing. Only entries from North America will be accepted.
Entries will be closed at 12PM EST on Sunday, January 13th, and I will randomly select a winner. The winner will be announced Sunday. If I am unable to contact the winner by Wednesday the 16th, I will pick a new winner. Good luck!
[UPDATE 1/13/2013 - Comments are now closed. The winner is announced in this post]
[FCC Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book for my giveaway.]
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Jon Lomas
I'm going to buy a pressure cooker and this cookbook would be great to get us started. Thanks for the giveaway!
Vicki
Always looking for new recipes for my pressure cooker! Thank you for the opportunity.
SongbirdVB@aol.com
RUSSELL MOORE
My wife works unpredictable hours so our pressure cooker is a godsend that let's me get a real meal ready very quickly. Always looking for new recipes.
russrpm@gmail.com
AJD
My mother had an large, old pressure cooker that she used for canning. She was pretty scared of it, but produced amazing preserves.
JinxM
I LOVE my pressure cooker!
I have a Fagor stove-top 6 qt. & 10 qt.
I love that I can cook things quickly at low temp. I'm considering taking it camping (less fuel consumption).
maria
I just bought a pressure cooker and my first recipe was YOURS (beef shank "osso bucco") and it was amazing. The cooker is a very foreign object to me so I'd love a cookbook:)
Eve Logan
I absolultely love my PC and I keep trying to convince friends and coworkers that they need one. Unfortunately, they're usually associated with danger and not convenience due to the old models.
I have no mishaps to report as far as the PC exploding, etc., but I did screw up a recipe pretty bad once. Actually, it was the pressure cooker pho recipe from this very blog! I used more bones than the recipe called for and a spice pack that wasn't so great and ended up with a nasty soup and a smelly gasket on the PC for weeks. I had to end up buying a new gasket due to my idiocy.
BTW...I love both blogs! Thanks!
JT
I had been coveting a Kuhn Rikon pressure cooker for a LONG time and my fiance surprised me with the 8 qt stockpot "just cuz," no birthday or Christmas needed. I use it all the time and I think he's been eyeing it since seeing (and tasting) all the delicious goodies I've been making in it. Just this Sunday, he made a rich, delicious beef stew in it. We may need two now since I'm not one to share my kitchen gadgets.
Leslie
I am totally in love with my two electric PCs. Don't know how I ever lived without them!!!!
diane baum
I've never used or saw a pressure cooker, until recently when I was introduced to it by Asian students. Cooking with it seems to make healthier meals
Athena
I don't have a pressure cooker story. (Maybe that's a good thing?) I have only been pressure cooking now for about two years after coming across your recipe for pressure cooker short ribs. When I saw that my craving for short ribs could be satisfied in 1 hour I bought a pressure cooker that very day. I have made them 3 or 4 times now and they are always, always a hit! Thanks for making me look good!
hippressurecooking.com is my go-to website for pressure cooker answers and also for my continuing pressure cooker education (who knew perfect hard-boiled eggs could be done with FRESH eggs?). I would love to win her cookbook!
Sharon
My grandmother, my mother and my aunts all used pressure cookers but I have no interesting stories or mishaps. I've been watching people cook w/pressure cookers or using one of my own my entire life.
Andy Suplee
No real mishaps to relate, but I've heard stories about my grandmother's one attempt to use a pressure cooker. It did not go well, and the whole thing, dinner and all, ended up in the trash! I'm getting a PC soon and would love the cookbook to go along with it! Thanks, Mike! asuplee [at] gmail [dot] com
Chastity
My grandmother & I co-bought an electric pressure cooker, and while we're pleased with its quick-cooking capabilities, there's still a learning curve. I'm excited about this cookbook of yours so we can better fulfill the device's potential. Contact email: mammasooki01 [at] yahoo [dot] com
Peg
Was using my pressure cooker only for cooking artichokes,but purchased an electric one from QVC a few years back.Love,but don't use nearly enough.(great recipe for stew was about it)Until.......your website.Now the only way I use beans is to brine & use the pressure cooker.So much cheaper(organic) & better. Thank you!!!!.Now I'm off to check out HipPressureCooking.com, &The Everything Healthy Pressure Cooker Cookbook