I’m Susan, welcome to Cooking & Calm
I know how hard it can be to keep cooking when the storms of life knock you off your feet, but I believe food can be your friend in even the toughest of times, so join me here for a little refuge, some good food and a generous pinch of Instant Potting and gadgetry along the way. Imperfect cooking is better than no cooking - let’s do this together.
Latest Posts
Instant Pot Test: Trying out my Whole Chicken and Potato One-Pot in the Ultimate
I'll be giving the Ultimate a really good test before sharing my full thoughts on it, but one of the first things I wanted to try was making a whole chicken, so I cooked up my One Pot Whole Chicken, Roast Potatoes and Gravy Sauce. It was a little fiddly as this new Instant Pot is much shallower and wider but I'm not deterred.
The Apple Sauce Volcano
I've been cooking with various Instant Pots for years now but still, disasters happen now and again. This year I had a massive apple harvest and decided to start making some apple sauce one night,a little too too late for my tired brain to think straight. It was all going well but then I heard the beep and flipped that steam release button without thinking. And then this...
Bullet Journal Garden Planning
There’s just so much information getting stuffed into our little brains that it’s harder and harder to pull some things out of the archives. So we need to develop some good ‘remembering strategies’ to help us plan the best we can for everything - including our vegetable garden planning.
Recipes Ideas for Chard: Saag Aloo
Now I always thought that Saag Aloo was made of spinach and potatoes, so when I came to create this new recipe, I had it in my mind that I'd need to rename it "Chard Aloo". But guess what? It turns out that Saag doesn't mean Spinach after all. Saag Aloo can be made with any seasonal leafy green and is often made with mustard leaves in parts of India. I had no idea! Am I alone?
