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Duem Pdek, Cambodia: Su Ith is delighted with her new biogas cooker and lighting. It helps keep her home cleaner and she gets more affordable lighting because the gas is generated from the pig dung on their small farm. She has expanded her business activities too as she can keep her store open later in the evenings.
Step 1: Saute Onion, Galic and Ginger
We start by sautéing onions, garlic, and ginger in butter in the base of a pressure cooker. If you have a stovetop model, do this over medium to medium-high heat. I'm currently testing out a countertop electric model from Breville, which has a "sear" setting. The goal here is lightly browned aromatics. As onions and garlic brown, their natural polysaccharides break down into sweeter simple sugars that subsequently brown and caramelize, creating rich, complex aromas that blend well with the ginger.
Step 2: Add Spices
Next up, add in your spices: cumin, paprika, coriander, turmeric, and black pepper. The dish we're making ends up with the familiar, comforting flavor of chicken tikka masala, a very mildly spiced product of British-Indian imperialism. We could go for broke and mix up a 20-ingredient curry powder, but quick and easy is key here (to be honest, even jarred curry powder would work just fine). What we don't want to skimp on is blooming the spices in fat, a process which not only intensifies their flavor, but also makes it more easily extractable.
Step 3: Add Tomatoes
In go crushed tomatoes. For this particular batch, I drained some whole peeled tomatoes and quickly crushed them with a hand blender, as I tend to only keep whole tomatoes in my pantry. I find it much more convenient to shop for a single type of tomato product and chop, strain, or purée it as my needs demand. Whole tomatoes tend to be of a higher quality and consistency than their more processed counterparts, but if you've got crushed tomatoes on hand or want to make an already easy recipe even easier, they work just fine.
Step 4: Add Spinach
A pound (that's about two big bunches) of spinach goes in next to wilt. It's easiest to do this by covering the pot and letting the spinach wilt in the steam for a couple minutes, stirring every so often.
Step 5: Add Chickpeas and Chicken and Cook
The pressure cooker, with its ability to rapidly cook meat and extract their concentrated juices into the surrounding sauce, is a flavor machine.
As in that recipe, I don't bother searing my chicken here, instead just nestling it into the saucy spinach mixture, to which I also add some canned chickpeas, along with some lemon juice and fresh cilantro.
Step 6: Uncap and Season
It takes all of fifteen minutes once it reaches high pressure for the chicken to cook through to complete tenderness. Once it's done, you're on the home stretch. If you want to make the plating a little prettier, you should remove the chicken from the pot at this stage so you can arrange the pieces a little more artfully later on.
With the chicken out, heat up the sauce and simmer it until it becomes thick, just a few minutes, adding some cream to enrich it. One final blast of lemon juice and seasoning with salt to taste is all it takes.
Ingredients
1 whole chicken (between 2 - 4 lbs)
Salt/Pepper/Spices to coat the skin (Use salt and pepper at a minimum, but feel free to add whatever spices you like best. We used garlic powder, onion powder, parsley, and thyme.)
2 Tbs olive oil
3/4 cup fluid: chicken broth or water
Buy easy cook microwavable pressure cooker by bene casa with sealing top lid, small cup, and spoon. Perfect for rice, meat, vegetables cooking etc.
This rice cooker is no ordinary rice cooker, it plays a tune to tell you when the rice is ready and you can set the time for it to cook.
Vegetables in a solar cooker made by children at a workshop run by Alexandra Lockett and Ian England at Lambeth Palace Museum of Garden History.
Both legs bolted in! We stopped for the night due to "man, it's getting dark" and "Shit, we ran out of marking pencil."
Hello.
For those of you unfamiliar with this character this is Cooker from a Wallace and Gromit film - see link...
I was again road testing my new toy, this time at Spaceport in Wallasey on the Wirral. This place had all of the attractions that Jodrell Bank should have had in it's £3million refit if it wanted to get kids interested in the subject - it really was a Grand Day Out! Now don't groan too loudly.
The Spaceport link is here www.spaceport.org.uk/
Thanks for visiting
Cook barrel interior. One of our many next steps is to run some lines of angle iron under the front "lip" and at the back to provide a rest for the grills.
Using the sun to make tea
Looks like it might be from Solarstan: afghansolar.org/e/products/solar_cooker.html
Photos from our trip to Dari Noor
Getting ready to purge and burn the top barrel - a lot of vegetable oil was still in there, and while I suppose we could have taken it for a power wash or something, this was much more fun.
A fab day out with 3 friends from camera club :-) fab day great laughs lots of fluffies !!
Ajax the power to remove dirt & grimme !!!!
Assembly done!
...and then we tore it apart so we can dremel down all the sharp edges, and take it to go powerwash out the barrels some time this week/weekend.
Did you know you can rehydrate dried cranberries in cider in the microwave? Me either, but it actually worked.
kapgar wrote : "What is this crap? A new minifig? With articulation? That doesn't seem fair."
I wanted to check if the high-articulated minifig is stronger than the low-articulated lego.
Thirteenth round : iron-megabloks-man easily defeated cooker-lego-minifig.
Iron-man wins but he has bad stomach pains because of meals he ate.