Monday, June 10, 2019

Monday mixup

In the 80’s we embraced the microwave.  It was a learning curve to grasp the formulas to  transform our old recipes to adapt to cooking in the microwave. Now, we are learning to adapt recipes to the Insta pot .  In addition, we are adapting recipes to scratch cooking instead of sing a bunch of boxed foods that contain preservatives and sometimes too much sodium 

Almost any receive can be a jumping off point to a good meal that is inexpensive and good,   A few simple ingredient switch outs do wonders to adapt a recipe to 2019 standards.  We all want to avoid too much sugar, salt, hydrogenated oils, GMO, HFCS, and preservatives.  Actually, there are some boxed products that contain tsp - a caustic cleaner we used to sell at the paint store to get breast off of walls so paint would adhere better,  you were supposed to use rubber gloves to protect your hands.  This is in boxed Mac and cheese and in some cold cereals.   Also, there is wood pulp on some boxes of parmesan cheese food.  It isn’t much more expensive, amd sometimes cheaper to feed your family the real thing instead of a box of something.  Children will eat what you let them get used to.  My granddaughter loves what she calls Grandma mush .  Actually it is oatmeal.  Cold cereal sits in the pantry to the point where I don’t buy it.  

I recently bought a slow cooker dump meals  cookbook at the thrift store.  There are a lot of good recipes,  they, however, tend to use boxed ingredients.  You can use the insta pot as a slow cooker, or you can cook some things in a vegetable steamer for the insta pot. 

  • Root beer bbq pulled pork 
  • Chicken soft tacos 
  • Smothered pork chops and rice 
  • Ginger teriyaki chicken 
  • Family tortilla bowl 
  • Ranch chicken and stuffing
  • Easy beef stew
  • Chicken on enchilada sauce 
  • Pork roast with Dijon tarragon glaze 
  • Pork and sauerkraut 
  • Maple glazed meatballs 
  • Chicken and butternut squash, 


Most of these give you the flavors , a lot of pre made  ingredients  are easily made scratch, and time can be judged by any other similar recipe for the insta pot. 

It’s always fun to make something different, broaden your horizons, and step out of your comfort box.  We all need to continue to grow even if it is just trying something new.  




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