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The I Love My Instant Pot® Recipe Book: From Trail Mix Oatmeal to Mongolian Beef BBQ, 175 Easy and Delicious Recipes ("I Love My" Series) Imagine being able to make Minestrone soup or steaming chicken wings. When I read that you could make hummus with it, I couldnt believe it, but I guess all it meant was that you could cook the chickpeas in the Instapot and then you would have to blend it in the blender. Georgia Boiled Peanuts is a stand food. Using the saute function to make lentils. Using Instapot trivet to cook chicken and even BBQ it. Steaming lettuce for making wraps. Steaming Asparagus. I havent tried that before. The pictures of the finished dishes also show all the ingredients placed in an artistic manner on another accompanying board which almost makes it alternate presentation and choice to the eaters. Cheesecakes and custards.  What else do you need?

In 47 pages, you get 34 recipes and many of them are very new to me. Batley Cake, Cable Cake, Curd Tarts, Harrier Cake, Ilkley Cake, Leeds Parkin and so on. Then there is the set of recipes that begin with York and Yorkshire - Biscuits, Buns, Cheesecakes... Some recipes come with very distinct notes like how Parkin always has oatmeal in it. Batley Cake is made on a baking sheet and not in a tin. Thats the first one I am going to take a stab at. And the black and white pictures interspersed between the recipes retain the feel of Yorkshire in visual sense too.

Alessi garlic Breadsticks is a clean product with natural ingredients like flour, salt, olive oil and 2 others. My toddler enjoys it a lot. They are fun to nibble on, easy to hold for long chew time. You can tell the faint garlic taste.

Baci di Dama (pronounced Bacay dee damah )which translates to Dames Kisses or Ladies' Kisses, are Handmade Italian Chocolate Hazelnut sandwiches taste great with the crusty/ short bready (crumbling) exterior and chocolate layer spread in between. You will not stop at one. Once you are over the high of the texture, you realize tiny pieces of hazelnut too. Novel. David Lebovitz recipe has the same shape as the ones in the box. so you can satisfy that curiousity of how they were made and enjoy them even more.

I made it with some onions and frozen vegetables. We all enjoyed the wholesome taste.

1.  Kirkland Organic Sweet potato chips taste like banana chips and tapioca chips. Its the sweet flavor working 2. Adding  gongura chutney  in lentils reminded me of  chintakaya pappu  , which is lentils with tangy raw tamarind flavor.