Cooking with Pressure

Growing up, my mother always cooked with a pressure cooker. I realize everyone thinks their mother is the best cook, but my mother really is the best! My family loves her carrots (and they really don't even like carrots!). I think it must be because she cooked them in a pressure cooker. Everything just tastes better. I bought an electric pressure cooker this year and it is my favorite cooking utensil! Everything I have made in it comes out tender and tasty. Here's what it looks like:



Tonight I fixed pork chops and in 20 minutes, we had delicious, fall off the bone, pork chops. I changed one of our favorite recipes for the cooker. Here's the original:

Glazed Pork Chops

2/3 cup brown sugar
1 tsp. paprika
1 tsp. sage
1 tsp. dry mustard
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. salt

Mix all ingredients together and spread on pork chops. Bake uncovered at 250 degrees for 30 minutes. Turn chops over, spoon dripping over. Cook for 15 minutes. Increase oven to 350 degrees and cook 15 more minutes.

For the Pressure cooker, I just placed the pork chops in it, sprinkled the mixture over it, added 6 ounces of pineapple juice and cooked on high for 20 minutes. Very good. In fact, once again, I failed to take pictures, we were too busy eating!
Super easy!