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Instant Pot Mini Yogurt: Batch or Jar? A Beginner's Guide
Instant Pot Recipes
20 March 2026
Instant Pot Mini Yogurt: Batch or Jar? A Beginner's Guide
Instant Pot Recipes
20 March 2026

Making yogurt in the Instant Pot Mini 3.8 Litre, 4 Quart is simpler than it seems, but there’s a choice to be made: making it directly in the pot versus fermenting right in the jars. I show you the full method for both in my YouTube video but here are the key things to know

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Instant Pot Recipes
20 March 2026
Simple Meal Planning for Stressful Times
meal planning
17 July 2024
Simple Meal Planning for Stressful Times
meal planning
17 July 2024

Sometimes life get's really tough and even straightforward tasks like meal planning can feel overwhelming. The last thing we need in those times is to be struggling to find something nourishing to eat so let's look at a way to simplify and explore how to create a kinder meal plan for those frantic seasons of life.

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meal planning
17 July 2024
How to cook Steel Cut Oats in the Instant Pot
Instant Pot Recipes
20 May 2024
How to cook Steel Cut Oats in the Instant Pot
Instant Pot Recipes
20 May 2024

If you've not cooked steel cut oats as a batch before, it's really simple. Just cook them as a basic recipe in the Instant Pot with water and salt then add all your extras. Let me show you how.

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Instant Pot Recipes
20 May 2024
Dairy Free Instant Pot Leek and Potato Soup
Instant Pot Recipes
14 February 2024
Dairy Free Instant Pot Leek and Potato Soup
Instant Pot Recipes
14 February 2024

Today I want to show you how to make a Dairy Free Creamy Leek and Potato Soup in the Instant Pot. This is a ‘warm hug in a bowl’ kind of soup and the recipe is beginner friendly

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Instant Pot Recipes
14 February 2024
What’s the Difference between the Instant Pot Pro Crisp and Instant Pot Duo Crisp?
Instant Pot Reviews
12 February 2024
What’s the Difference between the Instant Pot Pro Crisp and Instant Pot Duo Crisp?
Instant Pot Reviews
12 February 2024

If you're trying to decide whether to buy the Instant Pot Duo Crisp + Air Fryer or the upgraded Instant Pot Pro Crisp + Air Fryer, it’s important to get familiar with some of the main feature differences to see if one of the upgraded models is worth the cost for you. I own and cook with both of these so hopefully I can help.

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Instant Pot Reviews
12 February 2024
Crispy Chicken Thigh Supper: Instant Pot and Air Fryer Combo
Instant Pot and Air Fryer Combo Recipes
9 August 2023
Crispy Chicken Thigh Supper: Instant Pot and Air Fryer Combo
Instant Pot and Air Fryer Combo Recipes
9 August 2023

In this recipe I turned near-expired veggies and combined them with beautiful chicken thighs to make a Crispy Chicken Thighs Recipe in the Instant Pot and Air Fryer. With hectic lives, we often end up with bits of this and that in the veggie drawer so I hope this helps give you some ideas

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Instant Pot and Air Fryer Combo Recipes
9 August 2023
Slow Cooked Chicken Tagine in the Instant Pot
Instant Pot Recipes
8 August 2023
Slow Cooked Chicken Tagine in the Instant Pot
Instant Pot Recipes
8 August 2023

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

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Instant Pot Recipes
8 August 2023
Solo Supper: Cooking Perfect Rice for One in the Instant Pot
Cooking for One
8 June 2023
Solo Supper: Cooking Perfect Rice for One in the Instant Pot
Cooking for One
8 June 2023

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.

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Cooking for One
8 June 2023
Instant Pot Test: Trying out my Whole Chicken and Potato One-Pot in the Ultimate
Instant Pot
25 January 2023
Instant Pot Test: Trying out my Whole Chicken and Potato One-Pot in the Ultimate
Instant Pot
25 January 2023

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.

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Instant Pot
25 January 2023
The Apple Sauce Volcano
19 October 2022
The Apple Sauce Volcano
19 October 2022

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...

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19 October 2022
Bullet Journal Garden Planning
Growing Food
12 September 2022
Bullet Journal Garden Planning
Growing Food
12 September 2022

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.

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Growing Food
12 September 2022
Recipes Ideas for Chard: Saag Aloo
Air Fryer Recipes
11 September 2022
Recipes Ideas for Chard: Saag Aloo
Air Fryer Recipes
11 September 2022

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?

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Air Fryer Recipes
11 September 2022

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