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Sadness and other stuff

Boo!

I fear my Bunn coffee maker may have reached the end of the line. It has started leaking water out the bottom of the machine. Since the move the Bunn leaks each time we pour water into it. I think I may need to buy a new one. Fortunately, according to the website, Target sells Bunn machines. And they have new styles with stainless steel and black which will look so pretty on my counter. But I’m so sad that my lovely coffee maker isn’t working totally proper. so sad.

In other news, I caught a show on Animal Planet Friday night. It came on after the Meerkats. I think it’s imported from BBC, it’s called It’s me or the dog. It’s like the Nanny, but with pets rather than kids. The one I saw that totally made me laugh, partly laughing with shock at the dog. This little dog, some kind of terrier, was such a terror. He peed on everything including the microwave! He’d get into food on the counters too. So the trainer lady placed cameras all around the house to watch him when no one was home. They all left and climbed into the van in the driveway and watched the dog in the house on the monitors. The dog, jumped and jumped until he pulled open the oven door. Then he’d climb onto the oven door to reach up at the food on top of the stove. But it didn’t end there! He’d jump and jump until he opened the drawer next to the oven…then he used the open oven door, as a step to the drawer he opened to get up onto the counter! Then he’d walk all over the counter and pee on the breadbox or the microwave and eat whatever food was up on the counter too. What a clever nasty dog! But dog trainer lady had great advice to help the owner change the dog’s bad habits. It was a fun show to watch. If you’re home on a Friday night, check it out.

SUCCESS!

RESULT!

My first attempt at using Dad’s pressure cooker WORKED! I’m so excited. It was easier than I had thought thanks to Miss Vickie’s She’s got a whole mess of info on how to work your pressure cooker. I printed off recipies from other sites and came up with my own.

2lb beef rump roast
garlic powder
italian seasoning
1 cup red wine (I used the 2 buck chuck shiraz)
2/3 cup water
packet of lipton onion soup
1 large onion
1 cup beef stock
carrots
potatoes

brown the roast in the presure cooker pot no lid use some oil in the bottom. (I learned that if you don’t brown the roast first, it’ll come out kinda ugly grey). I seasoned the roast with the garlic powder and italian seasoning at this point. I added the chopped up onion after browning the roast. Then add the wine, water and beef stock. you might want to deglaze the pot at this point too. Use whatever red wine you like to drink. If you don’t like the flavor to drink, you wont like the flavor to cook with either. Add the lipton soup packet stir it up, get it nice and boily, then put the lid on, make sure you’ve got a good seal and wait for it to pressure up. Then lower the heat to maintain the pressure and let it cook for 25 minutes. At that point let it depressurize on it’s own (turn off the heat, move to empty off burner) let it sit. it’ll keep cooking as it sits and depressurizes. Once that is done get the juices and meat simmering again with no lid, put in the potatoes and carrots, boil up with a lid (no pressure) for like 20 min or so until soft. then gravy up your juice as you would normally. And voila! you’ve got an awesome pressure cooker roast.

It isn’t as scary as I thought. If you’ve got a pressure cooker with the jiggling circle thing, just make sure the rubber seal is good. and make sure the pot is clean and the valve thing is clear of any obstructions. Just read up on all that Miss Vickie says about it. you’ll be fine. a pressure cooker rocks cuz you can cook a whole roast in just an hour. Easy peasy… Although next time I’m going to try putting the potatoes and carrots in with the roast. I think I’m going to go get another piece of roast.

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