Murphy - Instant Pot magic: 50 surprising recipes for beer, jam, bread, and more!

Copyright 2019 by David Murphy All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the express written consent of the publisher, except in the case of brief excerpts in critical reviews or articles. All inquiries should be addressed to Racehorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018. Racehorse Publishing books may be purchased in bulk at special discounts for sales promotion, corporate gifts, fund-raising, or educational purposes. Special editions can also be created to specifications. For details, contact the Special Sales Department, Skyhorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018 or .

Racehorse Publishing is a pending trademark of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., a Delaware corporation. Visit our website at www.skyhorsepublishing.com. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Murphy, David (Cook), author. Title: Instant Pot magic: 50 surprising recipes for beer, jam, bread, and more! / David Murphy. Description: New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing, [2019] Identifiers: LCCN 2019001607 | ISBN 9781631584121 (hardcover: alk. | Smart cookers. | LCGFT: Cookbooks. | LCGFT: Cookbooks.

Classification: LCC TX840.S63 M87 2019 | DDC 641.5/86dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019001607 Cover design by Qualcom Cover photograph by David Murphy Print ISBN: 978-1-63158-412-1 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-63158-420-6 Printed in China This book is dedicated to everyone that has ever encouraged me throughout my life. Mom, thank you for starting me off in my culinary career and my obsession with food and ingredients. It was your salmon patties that started this journey in my life. You are so missed, and are gone too early from my life. You always believed in me and were always my biggest cheerleader. We will forever miss you.

To my Stephen, thank you for your constant support, encouragement, and side comments of, But is it good? You are my heart, and I love you always. Im so glad to be stuck with you. To my Jennifer and Angela, I couldnt ask for better sisters. I love my scissors so much. I carry you in my heart. Thanks for eating everything I ever made! To my Gigi, Stacey, and Tina, I love you all so much.

Your love can never be replaced. Tina, you are greatly loved and missed. You were always so inspired to cook something in the kitchen, and we were happy to be your guinea pigs, with open plates and forks in our hands. Mama Eason and Daddy, thank you for always encouraging and letting me know I can do anything. Cheryl, thank you for the constant phone calls and always bragging about me. I love you.

Sadie, thank you for being my constant cheerleader and second set of eyes! I dont know if I would still have any hair left without you! To all of my friends and fellow bloggers, Im so very grateful to have you in my life. I wish I had enough space to thank you all personally, but that would take up my whole book. Please know how very grateful I am to have you all in my life. Lastly, I would like to thank my Heavenly Father. Youve never failed me. Psalm 121

I was ten years old, and my mom was in the kitchen making dinner. As always, I was right there by her apron strings to watch what she was making. Im sure I was always annoying her by asking, Mom! Whats for dinner? However, she never shooed me away. She always took the time to let me know what she was making, and how. So, what was this remarkable dish that I will forever keep close to my heart? Salmon biscuits with a cream sauce she made from scratch. My sisters and I lived for this meal.

We were always excited when we saw our mom pull down the box of Bisquick and open a can of salmon. We knew the threat that we were about to indulge in. I do have to let you in on a small secret: My mom was never known for her culinary skills in the kitchen. But after these salmon biscuits, you would have sworn she was the single most amazing chef in the world. With this meal, I became obsessed by learning how my mom would take milk and transform it into a thick, rich sauce. It was that very special day of me watching my mom make her cream sauce, that I learned what a roux was.

It was my very first food terminology, and I engraved it into my brain. It amazed me to learn what a roux was, and how it was a thickening agent for dairy products. My family was very poor when I was growing up, so we always had to make food with what we had available and whatever the government welfare truck dropped off in our neighborhood. Normally things like long logs of cheese, yogurt, peanut butter, stuff like that. So we ate a lot of grilled cheese sandwichesthough we never complained about that! Melted cheese on seared bread with butter... is pure life.

Then I fell in love with watching all those cooking shows on PBS. Everything from Yan Can Cook to Julia Child. I saw this one cooking show where a lady was making a traditional Indian dish. It was green beans and red potatoes seasoned with paprika and other spices. I took a ton of mental notes and went to the kitchen. Lo and behold, we had everything that I needed to make the basics of the dish.

It felt fantastic to cook my very first meal that wasnt just warming up milk to pour over my Cheerios with honey drizzled on them. Once I was done, I immediately pulled my sisters off to the side and made them eat it. They were younger than me, so they really had no choice. And they liked it! It was one of my first forms of encouragement that I received for cooking food for someone. I dont remember many other meals that I made when I was a kid, but the green beans and red potatoes will always be stuck in my headit was the first meal I ever prepared. It was my love for food and customer service that kept me in the restaurant industry since high school.

Who knew that my journey would take me to where I am now? Now, I share amazing recipes, including Instant Pot recipes, and some life stories with my special needs sister and family, on my blog, foodnservice.com. So, lets talk about my love and obsessions over my two children: the Instant Pots. It was two years ago that I was introduced the Instant Pot. I was like, okaaaaaaay. So what does it do? How is this going to add value to my life and cooking in my home? At first glance, I wasnt really impressed. All I knew was that I could dump food in there and cook it under pressure.

I cant tell you the countless meals that I burned, turned pasta into mush, didnt cook the pasta long enough, forgot to add water, and the list just doesnt stop. Did I read the manual? Cmon guys... No. I didnt read the manual. There. I admitted it.

One day, it dawned on me that I was doing this whole Instant Pot thing all wrong. I became consumed by learning how to work this machine properly and to my advantage. Instead of looking at the Instant Pot as an electrical pressure cooker, I decided to look at it as if I were using a wooden spoon in my kitchenI use my wooden spoons every day when I cook. Why cant I use my Instant Pot just like that? I stopped looking at it as a nuisance, and became best friends with it. The Instant Pot became my new wooden spoon of the kitchen. I cook a lot of meals in the machine, but I also use the machine as a tool to help me out in the kitchen.