Peckish Sister's Profile

From: Central, FL USA

Joined: December 11th, 2010

About me: I have always liked to cook, particularly breads, fruits, vegetables, vegetarian, poultry and lamb dishes. After marriage we cooked together progressively more difficult dishes with him doing the meat, grilling and frying, and I did the "dough" and the same type of things I had before. After children we started cooking more simply. After discovering the cause of my frequent migraines was an evolving long list of chemicals and odd ingredients, I began getting back to cooking from basic ingredients, and found I could be well again. I also try to cooking from what I can get in season at the ever present fruit and vegetable stands.

Favorite cookbook: America's Test Kitchen / Cooks Illustrated Books

Manchester Stew from Skinny Instant Pot & Slow Cooker Cookbook

I switched up the vegetables and canned beans to reflect what I had on hand. It was my very first use of the Insta pot and I was skeptical of the 3 minute cooking time since I had increased the amounts... read more >

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Website: Spark Recipes

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I usually do the mental math to make a small batch of dough in my bread machine for Easter, but decided to find a real recipe. This one is from a healthy website. My main problem with this recipe is that I had to add about 2/3 cup of flour to make a still soft, but manageable dough. Instead of the traditional coffee cans, I put one batch in a large, but tall cooking pot and split the second batch and place in two small, but tall baking pots to make 2 small and one large loaf. In one batch I substituted dried cherries and pecans, and this made the best Paska I have ever eaten. In the other batch I used half raisins and half craisens. This bread machine doesn't have a good way to alert me to add additional ingredients and it is important to not add the dried fruit and or nuts to soon, so I dumped mine in after the mixing was over and had to knead them in before shaping into loaves.

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