Experiments in Cooking

Month: March 2018

Turmeric Golden Paste

Turmeric Golden Paste

After resisting this bandwagon for more than a year, I’ve jumped on it! Water & turmeric cooking down. The final product with coconut oil, black pepper, and a pinch of cinnamon and dry ginger. The recipe made a LOT! It filled my 12oz jar. I’m […]

Mexican meal Part 2: Carnitas x Pibil Pork in IP

Mexican meal Part 2: Carnitas x Pibil Pork in IP

I love the carnitas recipe I’ve been making, but I wanted something slightly different to serve with rice. I read up a few puerco pibil recipes, and settled on this delicious hybrid between citrusy carnitas and pibil. Despite having all the ingredients to make my […]

Mexican meal part 1: Spanish rice in IP

Mexican meal part 1: Spanish rice in IP

I had about 30 minutes in which to use the IP, clean it out, and then use it again to make pork. I decided upon this no-saute version of Spanish rice, in which you get to simply dunk everything in the pot and pressure cook […]

Tandoori chicken

Tandoori chicken

While we do have a tandoor at home, we allowed it to get rained on a little with the lid open, and ended up making this chicken in the oven. The good news is, it comes out just as great roasted 🙂 I used chicken […]

Mung dal for beginners, in IP

Mung dal for beginners, in IP

Mung dal is the perfect lentil for beginners to Indian food. It is forgiving, delicious, and oh so nutritious. It can be cooked easily on the stovetop in under 30 minutes, and in the IP, it takes 10ish minutes- time to heat up and then […]

Black Eyed Peas Sundal in IP

Black Eyed Peas Sundal in IP

Sundal is a traditional Tamil snack made with a variety of legumes during the festival season of Navarathri (Nine Nights) which occurs in late fall. It is most often made with chick peas, and occasionally with black eyed peas or boiled peanuts. I love black […]

Kare Kare Beef in IP

Kare Kare Beef in IP

I first tasted Kare Kare Beef when the Filipino food truck Be More Pacific used to frequent my workplace. After they stopped carrying it in their food truck, I was determined to have some ALL.FOR.MYSELF. One beautiful sunny day, my friend B and I got […]