Stella's Social Club

[The Sheriff]

The snow pics are beautiful!

Good luck with the recipe Kathy. Report back, with pics!

Kelly, do you still have lemons? I just made these Meyer Lemon Poppy Seed Scones. Yum.

http://foodiewife-kitchen.blogspot.com/2012/03/meyer-lemon-poppy-seed-scones.html

 

[crazyhen]

That is suppose to be the best of pressure cookers. American made. My Dad used one all his life as an adult to can. After two generations one of the lid supports got broken. They are the crème-dela-creme of pressure cookers. I use another kind but would have loved one of them.
I do not put beans of any kind or foaming foods in them. The big ones like that are strickly for canning for me. The smaller ones are set up for reg. foods. I had one that got lig.caught
under the food and when I moved it the food went everywhere. Now I always sort of shake it a bit before I open it. (that's the small one Not the canner.) They have their place but I do not use one for meals very often. For tough meats though they are great.

PS
Those are beautiful snow pictures. I have not seen any this yr.

 

[ronott1]

That is suppose to be the best of pressure cookers. American made. My Dad used one all his life as an adult to can. After two generations one of the lid supports got broken. They are the crème-dela-creme of pressure cookers. I use another kind but would have loved one of them.
I do not put beans of any kind or foaming foods in them. The big ones like that are strickly for canning for me. The smaller ones are set up for reg. foods. I had one that got lig.caught
under the food and when I moved it the food went everywhere. Now I always sort of shake it a bit before I open it. (that's the small one Not the canner.) They have their place but I do not use one for meals very often. For tough meats though they are great.

PS
Those are beautiful snow pictures. I have not seen any this yr.

When you pressure cook foods that will foam, you add a bit of oil.

Here is Recipe:


The exact cooking time will depend on what kind of bean and what kind of pressure cooker you have, but you can rest assured that you can cook a pot of tender, creamy beans an hour or less. For the chickpeas shown above, it took my pressure cooker 15 minutes to reach full pressure, then 10 minutes at full pressure to cook the beans, followed by a 20 minute natural release cool down — a total of roughly 45 minutes to achieve tender beans. Note: I did presoak the beans, which helped cut their cooking time significantly.
Let's take a closer look at the various components for pressure cooking beans.

How To Cook Any Bean in a Pressure Cooker


Makes 5 to 6 cups of beans, plus broth

What You Need

Ingredients
1 pound dried beans
2 tablespoons, plus 1 teaspoon of salt
1/4 yellow onion, left whole
1 clove garlic
1 bay leaf
1 tablespoon oil
Equipment
Medium-sized bowl
Measuring cups and spoons
Colander or sieve
6- to 8-quart stove top pressure cooker (see Recipe Note)
Timer
Slotted spoon
Ladle
Jars or other containers for storage
Instructions

1. Presoak the Beans: 6 to 8 hours before you cook the beans, dissolve 2 tablespoons of salt into 6 cups of water. Add the beans (you may want to rinse them first to remove any residual dust and dirt) and cover with a plate or a towel.
2. Drain the Beans: When the beans are done soaking, drain them in a colander or sieve. Place the pressure cooker on the stove and add the drained beans.
3. Add the Aromatics: Add 8 cups of water, 1 teaspoon of salt, onion, garlic, bay leaf and oil to the pot.
4. Cook the Beans: Secure the lid according to instruction manual and turn the flame up to high. Keep an eye on the pot and when it reaches high pressure, reduce the flame to medium/medium low and start timing the beans. (See Recipe Note regarding electric pressure cookers.)
5. Natural Release: When the time is up, turn off the heat. Allow the pot to cool down and release pressure naturally. Follow your instruction manual to determine how you will know when the pot is ready to be opened.
6. Remove the Lid: Unlock and remove the lid, tilting the lid away from you and allowing any condensation to drip back into the pot. Using a slotted spoon, fish out and discard the onion, garlic and bay leaf.
7. Use or Store: Your beans are now ready to use. If you want to store them, measure out 1 1/2 cups of beans into 2-cup storage containers. Add liquid to cover, leaving 1/2 inch of headspace. Seal and store in the refrigerator for 4 to 5 days or in the freezer for up to one year. Be sure to label the jars with date and contents.

Recipe Notes

• In this method, we are used a stove top pressure cooker. If you are using an electric pressure cooker, then follow your cooker's instructions and method for bringing the pressure cooker up pressure and cook as directed above.
Posted by Dana Velden

Dana Velden is a freelance food writer. She lives, eats, plays, and gets lost in Oakland, California where she is in the throes of raising her first tomato plant.

 

[gryeyes]

I haven't been "around" much of late because I tend to get stuck on BYC and not get anything done. Now that I spend quite a few evenings a week socializing at my favorite watering hole (two beers and endless diet Cokes can take hours to consume), I can't "afford" to open up the iPad before I head to The Ranch to care for and commune with the smaller flock housed there. The Pub is between the Homestead and The Ranch.... Anyway. I am cocooning at home today, due to the second day of heavy rains. Plus the Olympic Games are broadcast in the afternoon, too. (Bobsledding will be more special to watch, as tnspursfan has a cousin competing in that sport; that's enough for me to consider it "somebody I know" and worth cheering specifically.) Got a story to tell. It's one of those "Only Linda...." tales. My little house is built on a slope, so the back wall of the house is shorter on the outside ... if that makes sense. Geese can actually peek through the bedroom window right behind my bed and above the headboard, it is that low. Every single morning they traverse the narrow bit of land between the house and the back fence to let me know I should open the coop so they can enter to eat, as I only feed the poultry in the coop. Well, except for everybody's daily Treat Session. My two small dogs sleep with me. Zorro the Aged House Hitler sleeps through everything but the scent of food. Dooley barks from under the blankets when the four geese gabble at - or tap on - the bedroom window. I can prevent this unpleasant, bark awakening by getting up at dawn to open the coop, but usually go back to bed for another 90 minutes or so. Sometimes longer.... Last week, after the first day of light rain, I exited the house through the kitchen side of the house, because there is a patio there, with low steps to the gravel driveway, then walked from the far side of the house to the coop. Normally, I exit through the second bedroom onto the deck, into the garden, go through the gate, then down a sloped bit of ground to the coop. Folks with free range poultry know about denuded ground.... In rainy weather, that is dangerously slick territory (and it's not just MUD, if you know what I mean). As I intend to get back into bed, I open the coop wearing my nightshirt, not always covered with a robe. Open coop, get back into bed. Do not wish to strip off mucky nightshirt and shower between those two "activities." I re-entered the house through the front door, not walking all the way around the front of the house back to the far side door. Shorter distance (lazy) with the warm bed calling silently to me. Some time later, Dooley comes up from underneath the blankets, barking furiously at the sound of gabbling geese. As I always do, I tell him "Dooley, shut UP, they're OUTSIDE," I was wrong. Four huge Toulouse geese were shouldering each other IN THE BEDROOM DOORWAY, obviously on a tour through the Food Lady's Coop. They hadn't been able to determine who should enter first, so they were jockeying for position. Apparently I had not pulled the French door tightly enough to latch it when I went out that way. Didn't come back in the same door, so didn't catch it then. Caleb, Zoe, Dora and Ariel didn't want to go back out the same way they had entered, so I herded the indignant foursome around the coffee table in the living room, out through the second bedroom, onto the deck, into the fenced garden and out into the yard. Getting them out of the garden took a bit of time and effort. I apologized to Dooley afterward. And to Sparkle the House Silkie and her two chicks, who were all twitter-pated at having their domain invaded. Surprisingly, the only goose-generated mess was what they did to the kibble in the dog food dishes.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

ok the rain can stop now. We have had almost 7 inches they say in 24 hours up here and I have flooding all over.
We made enough of it up for today thank you.
So I am not sure what the total is since Thursday but I'm good for now please

 

[ronott1]

ok the rain can stop now. We have had almost 7 inches they say in 24 hours up here and I have flooding all over.
We made enough of it up for today thank you.
So I am not sure what the total is since Thursday but I'm good for now please

It is very wet!

My chickens need to swim a bit....

 

[lawatt]

ok the rain can stop now. We have had almost 7 inches they say in 24 hours up here and I have flooding all over.
We made enough of it up for today thank you.
So I am not sure what the total is since Thursday but I'm good for now please

nearest weather station to my house (which is about 1000' higher in elevation than the weather station) reads 6.5 inches of rain so far, and its definitely still coming down -- flash flooding warnings in effect til this afternoon -- the cats and chickens are not liking it at all, although there's suddenly a chorus of froggies that had ben silent prior to this weekend...

 

[Hangtown Farms]

It is very wet!

My chickens need to swim a bit....

I had them all running out a bit to stretch there wings and go right back in the coop lol

 

[chiqita]

nearest weather station to my house (which is about 1000' higher in elevation than the weather station) reads 6.5 inches of rain so far, and its definitely still coming down -- flash flooding warnings in effect til this afternoon -- the cats and chickens are not liking it at all, although there's suddenly a chorus of froggies that had ben silent prior to this weekend...

So... twice as much as we had all gotten this season?

 

[Hangtown Farms]

So... twice as much as we had all gotten this season?

Here probably lol