Are you wondering what the first thing was I cooked in my instant pot?

It was chicken breasts, for our dog Annie! We give her chopped chicken with her kibbles every morning and cooking the breasts in the Instant Pot was the easiest and fastest I've ever made her chicken.

Here's what I did

• I started with bone in breasts that still had the skin
• I did cut of just a bit of excess fat because I was planning to save the broth
• I put 1.5 cups of water in the pot
• Added 3 whole chicken breasts
• Set the pot for high pressure for 15 minutes
• Let the steam do a natural release

I left the chicken to cool for a few minutes and the bones came out real easy. Then I just chopped the chicken and I was done.

Note: Save the broth to use a the cooking liquid when you do a roast. Just remember it has no seasoning.

Roasted Garlic

When I bought my pot I spent the first day watching a bunch of videos on You Tube, I'm sorry I can't find the original video that inspired me to give credit but after doing a couple searches I found some steps that sounded similar to what I'd seen.

Here's what I did
Put one cup water in the bottom of the Instant Pot
Slice off tops of garlic heads, pour a tiny bit of olive oil into each head
Set garlic heads on steamer basket and set in the pot
Cook on high pressure 10 minutes
Let steam do natural release, I left mine for 15 minutes

The garlic will squeeze out of the "paper" real easy and it will be real soft. I put mine in a glass jar in the fridge and will use some to make garlic butter for garlic bread. I might beat some into cream cheese with some herbs.

Hard Boiled Eggs, try # 2

The first thing I learned with this pot, things are not going to be as quick as you think they will be!
So for attempt #2 at hardboiled eggs I actually started a stopwatch as I took the eggs out of the fridge and got the pot ready.
I decided to used the 6-6-6 method, I am using extra large eggs and I want to see if this timing works for that size egg.
From the time I started the stopwatch until the eggs were ready to come out of the ice water was a little more than 29 minutes. So for planning, figure 30 minutes until your eggs are ready to peel.

And here they are! Yolks are cooked perfect. In case you wonder about all the people who say these eggs peel super easy, all those people are right! I just bought these eggs at the store today and they peeled easier than any egg has ever peeled.

Summary:
Time needed starting with getting the eggs out of the fridge until they are ready to peel is 30 minutes

• Put one cup water in pot
• Set eggs on trivet
• Start the pot for 6 minutes
• Leave on "Keep Warm" for 6 minutes
• Quick Release the last of the steam
• Open pot and put eggs in an ice bath
• Leave in ice bath 6 minutes
• Take the eggs out of ice water and peel

Note: Hard Boiled Eggs, try #1 was not a complete success because I skipped the "Keep Warm" 6 minutes step.

My new Instant Pot!

Here is the Instant Pot pressure cooker I bought a couple weeks ago. I love this pot. Some of the things I've tried are so simple and so amazing! So I am starting a blog to document my successes as well as my failures. Today I am making hard boiled eggs for the 2nd time, my first time was not a complete success.