Showing posts with label Pressure Cooker Pasta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pressure Cooker Pasta. Show all posts
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Passage Food
I think have mentioned before that pressure cooker pasta is our go to passage food. I usually cook up a big batch before we set sail for quick and easy access while underway. However, I don't think I shared with you the great mugs that act as containers for the pasta. These mug are large enough to hold one good size portion of passage pasta and.....bonus, they each have a lid. This keeps the contents safely stored inside until we can shovel it inside our mouths. While underway, we simply pass the mugs out the nav station window, setting them on the floor of the cockpit to be distributed. If the seas are rough or we are heeling, no worry, the lids are still on - no spilling. The mugs are easy to hold - aka faster shoveling of food into one's mouth. When we are finished, we simply put the lid back on so the last little bits are contained inside. Who am I kidding, we are sailing and thus hungry....there are no little bits left. We eat it all!
Tom also makes up a double batch of popcorn and puts it into two big ziplock bags. This is the perfect munchie food, especially on the night watch. Almonds and dried cranberries mixed in a baggy are good too. And what is a passage without chocolate for a daily treat - dark, local (Caribbean), yummy chocolate.
Peanut butter sandwiches are always welcome anytime of day - breakfast, lunch or snack. If we have Nutella - all the better!
Last passage, I boiled up some hard boiled eggs and we had those on passage. The last two were gobbled up when we arrived into the anchorage. I usually try to have some quick and easy food ready for after passage food when we are tired.
Labels:
Galley tools,
passage food,
Pressure Cooker Pasta
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Pressure Cooker Pasta and Knorr Sauce Packets
It's simply crazy, but I know there are STILL a few of you out there that have not yet purchased a pressure cooker - not to name names Paul and Deb!! And there are still a few of you out there that have pressure cookers but you haven't dug it out of whatever dark corner it's stashed, dusted it off and fired it up. What are you waiting for!!! I really can't encourage you enough to use this galley/kitchen tool!
And I know I've said it before but Pressure Cooker Pasta is the best way to start. FOUR minutes! That is all the time at pressure it takes to make perfect pasta in the pressure cooker. Okay, five if it's whole wheat pasta. There are so many options from the basic pasta recipe - chicken, veggies, basic tomato sauce, meat sauce, cheese, capers, etc....the list is endless. FYI - For plain pasta, I have started adding a generous sprinkling of salt and a dash of olive oil to the water when I cook the pasta.
Short Cut - I have found that Knorr sauce packets (or any brand of dry sauce packets) can easily be used with Pressure Cooker Pasta. I don't even dirty a separate pot. I simply dump the dry sauce packet in after the pasta has cooked and add whatever liquid the packet calls for such as oil, water, milk or for today's lunch (which is pasta in creamy pesto sauce) left over cream. I generally don't add as much as the packet calls for. I just eyeball it and then taste. You may also have a tiny bit of pasta cooking water in the bottom, which is fine and helps blend the sauce in. The heat of the pasta and the pan is enough to mix the sauce. Yes, these sauce packets can be a tad salty but they are SO handy and you can add to them and play around with the liquids you add to make them sauce like adding cream or wine or tomato juice or whatever. Get creative.
*Sarah - have you gotten a pressure cooker yet?
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Pressure Cooker Pasta
| Pressure cooker pasta with homemade pesto topped with can chicken |
1/2 box pasta
water to cover
I poured the dry pasta into the bottom of the pressure cooker and put in enough water to just cover the pasta. Put the lid on, bring to pressure and cook at pressure for 5 mins. After 5 mins, removed from heat and place in sink and run cold water over the pot to release the pressure and stop the cooking. Drain any excess water off and dress with sauce or toppings as desired.
You can do plain pasta and water or you can add can dices tomatoes or tomato sauce as the cooking liquid.
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