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cookingandcalm.bsky.social
‣ Often found cooking & finding ways to keep it calm in the kitchen. Instant Pot 💚 ‣ Getting older, hoping to be wiser, building a new life in Northumberland 🇬🇧 ‣ Reader, learner, explorer ‣ My cooking stuff is on YouTube: https://youtube.com/CookingandCalm
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Gratitude for the helpful. I'm thankful for how many people want to help others. It's easy to be cynical and think everyone is out for themselves, but when you really open your eyes, there are many people that are just trying to make this world a better place. I'm thankful for those people.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Testing out more flavour combos for my fave healthy snack.This is Ottolenghi’s Citrus & Spice,my new fave kitchen shortcut (at least til I make my own version!). These lovely roast sprouts take 10 mins in an air fryer.I add a tbsp of water upfront to give a little steam action for starting cooking 🍜

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

I do love the super moist texture of chicken in the Instant Pot! A whole chicken gives us 2 here a roast dinner, dark meat for chicken leek and barley soup and this beautiful breast meat for super sandwiches in the week. And not forgetting the base for the best chicken stock 🍜 😋💛

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I started making YouTube vids in my 50s.Why? I believe everyone deserves good food and cooking fun, especially when life gets hard, and I wanted to share what I'd learned from some real tough times. 6 years on, I've learned the best part isn't the cooking at all. It's the community. It always is

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

I usually cook pearl barley for 10 mins in the Instant Pot before adding in the rest of ingredients for chicken barley soup. I just tried a one pot version but had to cook everything for longer. It worked okay, but the chicken was more 'pulled' than I like for soup. Back to my told method I think 🍜

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

If I think about all the things I’ve learned about how to still cook and eat well 🍜 (mostly) in those tough seasons of life, I’d say this: It's not about being perfect or keeping cooking til you drop. It's about... [thread]🧵

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, the Kitchen Aid has many functions. This one might be less well known 🤣

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

It’s nearly Seville Orange season and I normally make marmalade - pressure cooking the peels saves so much time and the instant pot does a grand job of it. Trouble is, I then get tempted to eat sourdough toast, morning, noon and night 🫢. So do I marmalade or not this year? 🍜

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

The snow people have become an ellipsis. I think we might be warming up at last here.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

It’s hard to resist going into the bakery with these little guys in the window, but I don’t go in. I have a code. I don’t eat snow people. 🍜

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Ok, i cant eat anymore panettone, crackers or cheese. Its time to get back to the real world and some healthier food. First step: fridge /pantry audit and clear out. Who’s with me?

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Oh wow, the aurora borealis has come to Northumberland to help us welcome in this #NewYear . So special 💛

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve had an ambition to make a quilt for over 30 years (eek!). Making my first wobbly steps forward on this first day of 2025 . Step 1 is learning to use my sewing machine! This is my 3rd ever cushion and it even has a zip. So ridiculously proud😊 Any other beginner sewers or #quilters out there?

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

I used to think meal prep was all about having 7 identical boxes of 'something with rice' lined up in the fridge. Now I realise that, for me, it's all about having a selection of things I can mix & match in the fridge and, at least, one 'ready to heat' meal in the freezer for those tough days 🍜

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Is this wrong? 🍜

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Quick tip for anyone becoming more plants forward, but still eating a little meat. I cooked a ham hock for OT in my Instant Pot…then stole some of that tasty stock for my lentil soup. So good! 🍽️ 🍜

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments