Hello.
I am not a good cook. I am just a "typical bachelor" who really doesn't do that much cooking, though I can cook a few things. In the relatively near future I am going to be changing my lifestyle to begin a journey that will last for quite some time and I need to learn to prepare my own food, so I want to start now.
Requirements are that I will have a very small pressure cooker, a camp stove, and a spoon. With the pressure cooker I will also probably carry the little insert that came with it that can be used to raise things off of the bottom about 1/2 inch, and I may also carry a white corning dish that will fit inside the cooker, I think I will need something like that to make rice.
Ingredients have to be things that are easily transported, that means no meat unless it is dried, canned, pickled, etc. It also means I have to limit the canned goods and rely more on things like dried lentils, rice, dried fruits, etc, though canned goods such as cans of tuna are okay and I expect to travel with them. Weight is a real issue, and there won't be any refrigeration available.
So I guess what I am looking for are some simple dishes I can make in a small pressure cooker that can be kind of staples of my diet. I imagine having some lentil and rice dishes with herbs and spices that I can change up to make the basis for most of my meals. Maybe I can make some kind of a simple bread in my pressure cooker too and do something with that.
This is the pressure cooker I have ...
Any ideas you could give me about what kind of dishes to focus in on would be helpful, methods to use, combinations of herbs and spices that would make oatmeal appealing, etc. Actually I really like that "Raisins & Spice" oatmeal from Quaker Oats and would like to know how to make that from just regular unsweetened oatmeal too! Anyway, you get the idea, I am very new to cooking and need to learn how to make some simple good tasting things in a repeatable way using basic ingredients and my pressure cooker. Water will always be available (or I'm in real trouble!)
Thanks so much.
I am not a good cook. I am just a "typical bachelor" who really doesn't do that much cooking, though I can cook a few things. In the relatively near future I am going to be changing my lifestyle to begin a journey that will last for quite some time and I need to learn to prepare my own food, so I want to start now.
Requirements are that I will have a very small pressure cooker, a camp stove, and a spoon. With the pressure cooker I will also probably carry the little insert that came with it that can be used to raise things off of the bottom about 1/2 inch, and I may also carry a white corning dish that will fit inside the cooker, I think I will need something like that to make rice.
Ingredients have to be things that are easily transported, that means no meat unless it is dried, canned, pickled, etc. It also means I have to limit the canned goods and rely more on things like dried lentils, rice, dried fruits, etc, though canned goods such as cans of tuna are okay and I expect to travel with them. Weight is a real issue, and there won't be any refrigeration available.
So I guess what I am looking for are some simple dishes I can make in a small pressure cooker that can be kind of staples of my diet. I imagine having some lentil and rice dishes with herbs and spices that I can change up to make the basis for most of my meals. Maybe I can make some kind of a simple bread in my pressure cooker too and do something with that.
This is the pressure cooker I have ...
Any ideas you could give me about what kind of dishes to focus in on would be helpful, methods to use, combinations of herbs and spices that would make oatmeal appealing, etc. Actually I really like that "Raisins & Spice" oatmeal from Quaker Oats and would like to know how to make that from just regular unsweetened oatmeal too! Anyway, you get the idea, I am very new to cooking and need to learn how to make some simple good tasting things in a repeatable way using basic ingredients and my pressure cooker. Water will always be available (or I'm in real trouble!)
Thanks so much.