This morning I was flipping through @catherinephipps.bsky.social's 'Modern Pressure Cooking' again with my morning coffee. One thing lead to another and instead of the planned beef stew a seafood boil appeared on the table. 😁

Made a version of @catherinephipps.bsky.social Keema Peas for lunches this week, throwing in random bits I had to hand. Delicious and I’m still stuffed 3 hours after lunch ❤️ www.stylist.co.uk/food-drink/l...

Lamb breast in the pressure cooker - only 30 mins using @catherinephipps.bsky.social recipe!

When you have Covid and cannot focus on anything and then you switch on Netflix and the second season of My Life with the Walter Boys pops up. Dross but very watchable dross and just what I need.

I am reading O Caledonia for the first time and it is sweeping me along, despite being awestruck by writing and observation on every page. I got out of bed just to go downstairs and read my husband a paragraph about false teeth which had me heave with the horror of it.

Parents! Carers! Anyone with children doing science GCSEs! A lot of you are buying revision guides for school year ahead. These help with exam preparation but provide no depth of knowledge or context about why science is important and worth knowing. “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?” does, and is just £3

Adam decided to make hot cross buns as he didn’t get enough last weekend. I was out for most of it. Bombarded by messages asking to buy sugar, yeast, raisins, allspice berries, all of which were exactly where they were supposed to be. But he got there in the end. Not all cross at my request!

I have just had the experience of my bone conduction headphones being bluejacked. A forced disconnect from my phone and a really creepy voice saying over and over again something like PS CREAM. Bit deaf so not sure. Factory reset seems to have worked….

And the rice pudding was so easy since done in instant pot - as per recipe from @catherinephipps.bsky.social I usually go with some combination of vanilla, bay leaf and lemon zest but this was great

Also please note, I pressure cooked literally every stage of this, separately: mince; leeks; potatoes. Only turned the grill on to toast up the cheese on the leeks. YAY for @catherinephipps.bsky.social + her amazingly thorough book Modern Pressure Cooking 🧡

This is just over a week away now. For anyone in the Shaftesbury area who wants to know everything about pressure cooking AND eat lots of good food, this one is for you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everyday-p...

Today I am mourning the loss of a rare and glorious day of the house entirely to myself for 6 whole hours. Instead I have swapped office bound husband for sofa bound sick son. Of course I am sorry he is ill but peace shattered. Plus 5 day break to Cornwall scuppered.

Gloomy day today but the birdsong almost makes up for it. Merlin recorded (I can ID a lot birds but not all of these!) - blackbird, song thrush, dunnock, robin, goldfinch, greenfinch, wren, long tailed, blue and great tits, greater spotted woodpecker, as well as all the bigger & water birds.

Can second this. I’ve been buying from them for years and they are excellent quality. As well as online, Londoners can find them at the Chiswick Flower Market, first Sunday of the month.

Pressure cooker roast beef? Why yes, and excellent it is too. Find here along with a very zingy Seville orange green sauce. catherine244.substack.com/p/last-night...

Spiced apple cake on Substack right now. Yes, it is pressure cooked. catherine244.substack.com/p/spiced-app...

@jamesbluecat.bsky.social 🎶 Hello! My name is Mrs Fish And I would like to share with you The most amazing book

Anyone? I must admit I very rarely use the slow cooking function - don’t see the point for most things. But I am assuming any cook on slow cooking would do it?

I was dubious that pressure cooker potstickers would work but obviously I should always trust @catherinephipps.bsky.social. These were amazing. 🥟

The absolute synergy of having 5 Blood Oranges , an abundant Rosemary bush & @catherinephipps.bsky.social Citrus book. Blood Orange & Rosemary jelly with the juice. Candied Peels with the ….. well,peel. Tomorrow as I have all the ingredients it’s Orange & Ginger Butter Shortbread 🍊🍊🍊

For anyone in the Chorleywood area, this is happening soon. Would love to see some of you there.

Thoroughly recommend following @nicmiller.bsky.social & @catherinephipps.bsky.social , & buying some Blood Oranges.

Listening to Nic talk about my Citrus book and she’s mentioning recipes I had totally forgotten about so picking it up again. Thanks Nic!

My son has turned into Ramona the Pest. Boinging of curls.

Oxtail stew: shoulda taken a pic when lid came off - glorious, puffy, irresistible dumplings. No allspice berries but had everything else. Half last night ... Served on buttery mash. About to do the soup thing with the rest. Will do this again soon. Thank you Chris & @catherinephipps.bsky.social

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

We are watching Love, Actually. Which is of course a dreadful film (the only bits that are remotely real are Emma Thompson and Laura Linney). But it is hilarious because Adam hasn’t seen it before and cannot believe that every new scene has someone super famous he knows in it! Blowing his mind.

The Family Stone with Adam. It’s a fantastic ensemble piece but so uncomfortable to watch I don’t know why I have watched it multiple times.

Boxing Day PR emails. A day for leftovers and lazing. Not for getting your head around the concept of a 2025 cleaning calendar.

I was given 3 new jigsaws yesterday, all from my son and only one of them what I would call super hard - which is a relief. The owl one by Angela Harding nearly finished me off one year.

Was about to eat the last of the lussekatt (so good dipped in coffee) and suddenly realised I wanted to use it as the base of a trifle. Glad I’m feeling like recipe development again.

I am watching the new Wallace and Gromit and found the desecration of Gromit’s garden properly traumatising.

Annual bonding exercise going on downstairs with Adam and Shariq cackling over how bad their wrapping is. I’m a “try hard” apparently.

One of the #jolablokaflod books for tonight, going to my almost 15 yr old who is much better at grasping scientific concepts than I ever was (or will be). And he also gets Charlie Brown for balance. @alomshaha.bsky.social

Anyway for dinner for the approximately one millionth time I made @catherinephipps.bsky.social caramelised endives with soy, grapefruit + thyme, but bc it has been 1M times I no longer follow the recipe, so Seville marmalade instead of grapefruit, + a dot of Scotch Bonnet sauce afterwards

Still think that one of the best lines in Ted Lasso is “ooh cacio later Pepe!”

Trying to instil routine. Lilly is back with us so getting her and Adam to decide what they want to cook for dinner so any ingredients can be bought by Shariq in the day. And if this fails, then something out the freezer. There will be arguments. L always wants vegetarian, A always wants meat.

Shariq & Adam are putting the Christmas tree up and it is so big there’s barely space for anything else in the sitting room. Perfect shape and it’s going to have to be trimmed down a bit. I am letting go of even more control freakery and leaving them to it. Just too tired to be directing operations.

Adam is tidying up my bedside table again. He is a messy boy but for the third time today he has cleared away empty mugs, medication blister packs, a banana skin. I know he wants to feel he is doing something useful, I find it so endearing.

Shariq was absolutely dreading going up into the loft to play pot luck with the numerous boxes of Christmas decorations, especially as we have so many lights. But I have just got a “Bless you, Mary Poppins,” as I had labelled everything in detail. Including “Use these lights, 2023➡️.”

I am home from hospital and lying on the sofa watching Ted Lasso (yet again) with Adam and he has just started flicking through Everyday Pressure Cooking “to find something to cook for you tomorrow.”

There's still time to get the 70th anniversary edition of "The Children of Green Knowe" for Christmas! Do buy direct from the Manor; they make more money that way, to help with the upkeep of the house. www.greenknowe.co.uk/product/the-...

Such a good thread.

The shittiest of shitty weeks involving bullying and vile boys who if not checked will end up like all the horrible toxic men we see getting away with nonsense throughout their entitled lives. So we are rewatching as antidote Ted Lasso & seeing my son proper laugh for the first time in days.

Today I have had an afternoon batch cooking. Since 2pm I have cooked ribs, a pork casserole, a mutton saag, a ham, a split pea soup, a tomato sauce and a chicken broth. And about to start a bolognese. Pressure cookers are great.

This year we made @nigelslater.bsky.social Christmas pud recipe from Christmas Chronicles. To make it extra special we used our copper pudding pot, created in collaboration with @regulaysewijn.bsky.social. @catherinephipps.bsky.social will be pleased to hear it was steamed in our pressure cooker.

pressure cooker pot roast here again today. a load of stock in there with the chicken to double down on the flavour. will give the chook 20mins in hottest oven to crisp skin for service. with Calabrian sausages today, Vichy carrots and green beans. gonna bang.

Best cooking equipment I've ever bought and I love it. Buy one or both of @catherinephipps.bsky.social books and follow all of her advice and you won't go wrong (or get blown up!)

Not a Christmas book per se, but a bloody lovely Christmas gift all the same.