Winners of The New Fast Food e-book by Jill Nussinow and More Thoughts on Pressure Cooking

Great news everyone, Jill Nussinow has decided to gift three entrants into our blog giveaway e-book copies of her pressure cooker cookbook, The New Fast Food. Thanks Jill!

The winners, chosen at random by random.org are . . .

Pressure Cooker Breakthrough! And a Giveaway!

After last week's guest post by Chef Aj on her single most important kitchen appliance, her pressure cooker, and the unbelievable warm response and conversation about the topic, I just had to break out my pressure cooker over the weekend. I also spent some well needed time reading up on just how pressure cooking works. 

That and cooking up two pressure cooked recipes. The first, a Cauliflower-Potato Curry from Lorna Sass's book Great Vegetarian Cooking Under Pressure (here's the recipe and here's a similar recipe with no fat) and the second, Chef Aj's 8 Minute Split Pea Soup. Both dishes were OUTSTANDING (yes, I am yelling, they were that good) and we have been enjoying them for lunch and dinner all week.

I'm officially a convert.

That means I need recipes. Lots of recipes.

The Pressure to Own a Pressure Cooker

About eighteen months ago I purchased a pressure cooker. It was during the time when we were renovating our kitchen. 

Knowing absolutely nothing about pressure cooking, I got all confused and thought that all pressure cookers were electrical appliances (like a blender or a crock pot) and that I could plug it into an outlet, which would have been perfect since that was how I was doing all of our cooking for eleven weeks. 

Imagine my surprise when I received my new pressure cooker and realized there are two types of pressure cookers--one type which does plug into an outlet and the other type which you put over heat from a gas or electric range, neither of which I had access too. I ordered the second type. Since I'm the kind of person that is usually too lazy to return anything that I have purchased, I naturally decided to hang onto my new, yet totally useless for me, pressure cooker.

Winners of the Vegan Delish App Announced

Thanks for entering the last HGK contest! The winners of the blogger giveaway are:

Entry #40 Nicole B.

Entry #25 Barbara

Entry #5 Yael

Entry #28 Lori

Entry #20 Debbie

Congratulations! Please contact me at healthygirlskitchen@gmail.com so that we can get you the downloading instructions. The last day to download your free copy is Thursday, December 6th, so please hurry!

Next up, a guest post by none other than our beloved Chef Aj.

Have a healthy day folks!