Instant Pot Eggplant Chili is a hearty vegan dinner perfect for a busy meat-free weeknight. This recipe comes to me from an unlikely source: the 1995 cookbook Open House, prepared by the National Alliance to End Homelessness. It’s a weird little cookbook. On the outside it looks like a run-of-the-mill community cookbook, down to the……
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Instant Pot Frijoles con Chorizo (adapted from Buen Provecho, New Jersey, 1995)
Instant Pot Frijoles con Chorizo is a hearty take on refried beans suitable for a Mexican family feast. This recipes comes to me by way of Buen Provecho: 500 Years of Hispanic Cuisine, a 1995 community cookbook compiled by the AT&T Hispanic Employees Association. It’s a huge step up from your run-of-the-mill canned refritos, and……
Instant Pot Creamy Chicken Italiano (Oregon, 2006, adapted)
Instant Pot Creamy Chicken Italiano is a dump and go weeknight dish that tastes like a throwback to simpler times. The recipe comes to me by way of a community cookbook from my home congregation. The cookbook was compiled in 2006, but this recipe likely has its origins in a late 1970s kitchen. The recipe……
Instant Pot Russian Chicken (Oregon, 2008, adapted)
Instant Pot Russian Chicken is a recipe that hits close to home. Quite literally. Adapted from Recipes from the Heart, a community cookbook from my home congregation and submitted by a family I know and live, Instant Pot Russian Chicken is a homey, sweet, and simple weeknight dish for the harried homemaker. It reflects a……
Chicken and Mushroom Cream Soup (Egypt, adapted from Together: Our Community Cookbook, 2018)
Chicken and Mushroom Cream Soup is one of the more enjoyable recipes in Together: Our Community Cookbook. The original recipe was submitted to the cookbook by one Amaal abd Elrasoul, who came to London to help her sister-in-law after the Grenfell Tower fire. She credits the recipe to a neighbor in Cairo. In her own……