Instant Pot!

[BensMom]

Hmm, the evaporated milk trick sounds interesting. The recipe I have that I really like does have that bechamel sauce he talks about, so if just using evaporated milk could replace that, that would be so much easier.

[Macabre]

I use evap milk in my sow cooker Mac and cheese, and it works well!

[GoingNuts]

^^ I think I'll have to try this when DS is home.   

[hezzier]

Think I will get the ingredients for this for tomorrow night...

https://mycrazygoodlife.com/instant-pot-goulash-21-day-fix-goulash/

[GoingNuts]

Oooh, I'll give that a whirl!

[becca]

That looks good.

[hezzier]

ok, so seemed like the pot had trouble sealing so I should have shortened the time a little bit. 

I used a pound of pasta, 1 green pepper, 1 red pepper, 1 zucchini, 28 oz can of crushed tomatoes, 28 oz water...somewhere in there I forgot to double the spices (probably could have tripled them) so was bland and pasta was a little over cooked, but I would make this again.  Will be super easy to reheat for the kid's dinner tomorrow...just throw some extra parmesan on and it will be fine.

[becca]

Seems like it could take extra veggies too, unless you are trying to hide them in there.

[hezzier]

Agreed, there was plenty of room for more.  You could skip the minced onion and put in a whole diced onion.  Or whatever other veggies that you like.

[BensMom]

I had an IP fail last night. I didn't have high hopes honestly. It was a chicken teryaki recipe that didn't really seem like it had been properly modified for the IP or for brown rice, even though it gave instructions. So I had mushy carrots and peppers and the broccoli pretty much just disintegrated. And the proportions were way off. I doubled the rice, but not the sauce and it was still way too saucy. I had to make extra rice to mix in with it.

I think I'm going to try mac and cheese tonight, even though I should probably cook something foolproof after last night's dinner.

[BensMom]

Mac and cheese was a win! Still have to grate all the cheese, but the rest was so much easier.

[hezzier]

Yeah!

[BensMom]

I need to start writing down recipes. I've just been looking stuff up online and getting the basic measurements and time, but then I can't remember and have to look it up again--like with steel cut oats.

Later in the week (or next week depending on how we're doing with leftovers) I'm going to try a lentil and brown rice recipe.

I'm also planning a creamy chicken and orzo dish that I make in a pot, but might try to adapt for the instant pot because I'm really loving this not boiling a big pot of water thing.

[hezzier]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/business/instant-pot.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share

[SilverLining]

I'm pretty sure Kanata is where the original e-belt was created too. Must be something in the water.