Miss Vickie's Big Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes

Wiley, 2008, Paperback

Product Description

The Ultimate Pressure-Cooker Cookbook

Nobody knows more about pressure cookers than Vickie Smith, creator of the leading pressure-cooker Web site, MissVickie.com. Now, at last, Miss Vickie has gathered all of her pressure-cooker wisdom into a book. Whether you're a pressure-cooker newcomer or a longtime fan, you'll find all the recipes, techniques, and tips you need for a lifetime of great pressure-cooker meals.

Miss Vickie's Big Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes is jam-packed with nearly 400 fast, tasty, foolproof recipes, ranging from one-pot meals like Chicken and Rice with Mushrooms to Sweet and Sour Pork, Navy Bean Soup, and Chocolate Malt Cheesecake. Miss Vickie's detailed recipe instructions and special techniques, such as "pan in pot" pressure cooking, guarantee that each dish comes out perfectly cooked — and perfectly delicious.

But Miss Vickie gives you more than just great recipes. Her book also provides in-depth guidance on every aspect of choosing and using a pressure cooker, including:
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A buyers' guide to modern pressure cookers
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Step-by-step pressure-cooker instructions
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Pressure-cooker safety
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Basic and advanced pressure-cooking techniques
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Common mistakes in pressure cookery
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Adapting recipes to the pressure cooker
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Tips, tricks, and troubleshooting

Offering hundreds of recipes that are proven to work — and proven delicious — plus plain-English answers to all of your pressure-cooker questions, Miss Vickie has created the single most useful pressure-cooker book ever published. It's a resource you'll turn to again and again as you explore the world of pressure-cooker possibilities and pleasures.

Product Details

Title: Miss Vickie's Big Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes
Sales Rank: 5318 in Books
Author: Vickie Smith
Publisher: Wiley, 2008-01-29, Paperback, 480 pages, ISBN: 0764597264
Package Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches, 1.85 pounds

Customer Reviews

Excited About this Book!: I'm so excited that my copy of Miss Vickie's Big Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes arrived today! I received a pressure cooker for Christmas and though I have been using Miss Vickie's website to help a little with my first few meals, I'm happy to have a hard copy in my hand so I can read it without going online.
I bought this book because of all… More reviews

WOW!: Love this book!!
Finally, a pressure cooker book that has lots of choices!
Really good description of pressure cooking in general.
Turning into a "go to" cookbook for me. (and that is high praise!)
Just made the Mexican Chicken soup for dinner and got rave reviews from the whole family. Italian style… More reviews

A Must Have for Pressure Cooker Users: My husband bought me a pressure cooker and the only recipe I could remember from using one many years ago was for stuffed cabbage rolls. I went on the internet and there were limited recipes. This book has it ALL! Tells you all about safety features, how to use the pressure cooker to the best advantage (like par cooking… More reviews

A real winner: Three words for anyone holding out on buying a pressure cooker: "DON'T BE SCARED"!! Pressure cooking may seem difficult and scary but it's simpler than you could ever imagine. This cookbook helps with the basics, is a great confidence builder, answers all "the questions", and is chock full of great recipes you can try or alter to your own… More reviews

Don't bother buying: The recipes here are not at all to our taste, too common and almost tasteless. If you enjoy plain high fat food, go for it. I am purchasing the Lorna Sass pressure cooker cookbook (which I borrowed from the library) recipes and methods of cooking things far superior. Have been pressure cooking for 2 months now and gave both… More reviews