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Cooking Under Pressure (Cooker)
by jillbcooks 3/18/2010 5:47:00 PM

A few times a year I will pull out my pressure cooker, or, actually, to be more accurate, my husband’s pressure cooker.  He particularly admired a corned beef that a friend and co-worker made for a potluck using a pressure cooker, and that co-worker gave us a pressure cooker (and the recipe) as a wedding gift.  With St. Patrick’s Day this week, my husband was in the mood for corned beef, so out came the slow cooker.  I admit that I am a bit of a milquetoast when it comes to using a pressure cooker.  My mom had one when I was young, and it was relegated to the far back of the kitchen cabinet.  Between the old-wives’ tales about explosions ...


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Tags: barbecue, pressure cooker, cole slaw, cirned beef, spareribs

Ice Cream Pie is a Piece of Cake
by jillbcooks 9/8/2009 8:59:00 PM

I do love dessert with wow factor.  I don’t love a fussy dessert that leaves me with a boatload of dishes to clean up. And I do love ice cream. We had guests over for dinner on Sunday night, and I concentrated on making lots of sides for our barbecue since I really, really love sides.  I made everything from scratch: cornbread muffins, baked beans, coleslaw, roasted potatoes, garlic butter corn on the cob, and grilled cheese-stuffed jalapenos wrapped in bacon. That did not leave a lot of time for making dessert. I bought a pre-made chocolate pie shell, hot fudge sauce, strawberry ice cream, chocolate chip ice cream, vanilla ice cream and w...


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Tags: ice cream, ice cream pie, barbecue

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