Face it: No-cook meal strategies for summer only get you so far. Eventually, you or someone who you regularly feed will want a hot meal. And that’s OK. Preparing a hot meal need not entail heating the ...

What's the deal with pressure cookers? They're time-saving appliances that can cook just about anything in a fraction of the time that a slow cooker can. In case you haven't cooked with one before, ...

As the days shorten, the age-old problem returns: how to get dinner on the table timely. Of course, it’s not that there are fewer hours before bedtime in November than in June. But it sure feels that ...

There's a real joy in slowing down in the kitchen. Gone is the frantic stress of trying to get dinner on the table in an instant, and in its place comes a different type of gentle cooking. It allows ...

Making Cajun pork and beans, with black eyed peas, using a pressure cooker on Monday, January 30, 2017. (Photo by Chris Granger, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune) I enjoy cooking in my Instant Pot, but ...

We had a pressure cooker in my home when I was growing up. It was annoying. It weighed half a ton and had a complicated, heavy lid that clamped down onto the bottom in a fussy way. It was a space hog, ...

If you spent any time browsing food websites between Thanksgiving and Christmas, you probably noticed there was a lot of chatter about a kitchen appliance called the Instant Pot. At its core, the ...