Welcome to Cooking & Calm
Hi there, I’m Susan and I share ideas & recipes that help busy home cooks find some calm in the kitchen, with help from my Instant Pot & gadget friends. I post here and on my YouTube channel and I hope I can help you find some simple ways to still eat well in this frantic world 🧑🍳+🤖=☺️
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Latest Posts
Slow Cooked Chicken Tagine in the Instant Pot
Slow cooking in the Instant Pot is not completely straightforward, but can be done! This is my recipe for a gorgeous Chicken Tagine and it works wonderfully in my Instant Pot Pro
Solo Supper: Cooking Perfect Rice for One in the Instant Pot
Ever wished you could cook a perfect single portion of rice easily, without a burn notice and with no rice stuck to the bottom of the pot? AND even better, what if you could even get 10 minutes off to do other things while it’s cooking? Well there is a way and it's easier than you think.
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.
