Why would anyone write Instant Pot instructions for a frozen skillet meal? Small children taking every opportunity to try to destroy the house while you are slaving over a hot stove you cannot step away from, that's why!

I have not tested this recipe with any other frozen skillet meal but the one listed in the title, yet I highly suspect that it ( Read more... )

Let's talk about No Scrap Left Behind, which is one of my frequented subreddits. It is a movement all about taking the scraps from one recipe and using them in a different recipe. Since I'm a vegetarian, my scraps are almost always vegetables. And so, I make soup. In my Instant Pot. And so can you!

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Users of the CouchSurfing suite of tools are not confused about the fact that CouchSurfing corporate (abbreviated CSHQ) represents a suite of tools and not the experience of Hospitality Exchange. CSHQ seems to be confused. And it isn't a good look for them.

Hospitality exchange is a hobby from time immemorial where individuals will allow distantly- ( Read more... )

Sometimes you are just one person who is cooking for just one person and intending to feed just one person but is using one of my Instant Pot recipes that make many servings. Welcome to batch cooking! I love batch cooking. I do it often.

Here's my secret for how I, personally, cook batches.

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First, let me say that this recipe is not a quick way to put dinner on the table, but in terms of actual time you have to do any actual thing, it will only involve your human labor for about 10 minutes. Meets my patient-yet-lazy standards.

This has a very interesting spice profile that includes cocoa and relies on lentils and pasta to be a complete ( Read more... )

When last we had left our fateful heroine, she was waiting to take possession of a 1912 Singer model 27 sewing machine for the express purpose of converting to hand crank.

But our fateful heroine made one tragic mistake. Or the internet had. Or the internet was mistaken.

See, the internet had led me to believe that all model 27s produced after the ( Read more... )

One of the subreddits I frequent recently made me aware of the historical costuber, and all around best teacher for historical hand sewing techniques: Bernadette Banner. (She's also on the Instagrams, but I'm old and have reached my peak social media so I don't do the Instagrams.)

I immediately binged every video she's publicly posted. All of them.
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Wait, what? Quick? This one is quick? Yes, this one is quick. But also, you get very little down time. Listen, I needed to cover for having forgotten to buy gravy from the grocery store in any kind of advance, so I needed it pronto. This DOES NOT meet my patient-yet-lazy standards. Good for you impatient folks willing to put some skin in the game ( Read more... )

Don't you hate recipes that call for 1/2 an onion or 1/4 an onion? I do. What am I going to do with the rest of the onion? I do batch cooking, so it will be a long time before I get to using up the rest of that onion. I used to just throw the whole onion in, but that often times would upset the flavor balance ( Read more... )

IN SEASON ALERT! Halloween is over and uncarved pumpkins that were cute and festive are now starting to wear out their welcome. Here's a recipe to delight and amaze with these pumpkins needing to go somewhere.

First, let me say that this recipe is not a quick way to put dinner on the table, but in terms of actual time you have to do any actual ( Read more... )