About a year ago, my dad gave me a new pressure cooker so I could make quick, healthy meals. Well....pressure cookers scare me a bit and it is a new way of cooking so I haven't exactly grabbed onto the concept. Just like I don't cook in the microwave because I learned to cook on a stove with good fresh ingredients, primarily Southern style. I suppose that is the title of the pressure cooker cookbook I should be looking for because this volume is vast and has everything from breakfast foods to dessert BUT just about half the recipes contain ingredients that I don't normally stock in my pantry as well as recipes that contain more ingredients than I typically cook with in any given meal. So, will I use it? Probably not.
I do like that each recipe gives you a difficulty level, serving suggestions, and tester notes. In addition, each can be used with either a stove top or electric pressure cooker. That is pretty much where my compliments end though.
The volume is paperbound and 512 pages in length. See any problems there? Without two large soup cans or an easel, there is no way this book is going to stay open long enough for you to put those ingredients together. I suppose the authors wanted to use as much of the 512 pages for recipes as they could because the photos of the dishes are few. However, if you are looking for a book filled with all kinds of ideas on what to do with that pressure cooker in your cabinet, give this volume a try. I think those who are more experimental with ingredients might find it more appealing than I do as well since I rarely buy ingredients for one recipe.
I did receive this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review and was in no way obligated to leave a positive one.
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