So last night, we were maybe 20 minutes from having supper ready and The Girl said, really forlornly "Are you going to make the brown and wild rice mix that I bought with my allowance?"
And then I died right there of adorableness because I have a child who buys fancy rice with her ALLOWANCE. But I was telling her – and feeling rather bad about it – that we couldn’t have the rice with our supper because brown rice takes about an hour to cook, when my husband got the bright idea to go check out the book that comes with our pressure cooker. Ah ha!
"It says that it should cook the rice in 12 minutes," my husband said. So we set to work browning onions and garlic and carrots:
Added broth and the rice mix:
Sealed it up:
And voila, in time for supper – we had brown rice!
TWELVE MINUTES. That’s CRAZY!
We really prefer to eat brown rice as a family, and by "we" I mean "me", of course. My husband prefers to eat white rice, and tends to sing forlorn little ditties about hippy wives, which are all very well and good but hurry up and eat before I am LATE FOR MY MACRAME CLASS. Anyhow, my children all obligingly love brown rice too, and it’s all great as I remember to put the rice on an hour before supper. Which – do I even have to say this? I have three kids. How much ability to remember anything do I still have? – doesn’t happen all that often. So it’s great to have a speedy way to get it on the table, because I just can’t hear that Hippy Wife song often enough, REALLY. And the rice was GOOD, too.
And because I am so dedicated to Health and Wellness – this is what I made for dessert:
DO note the children waiting around the patio table.
That dessert LOOKS rather fancy but isn’t hard to make (*couch* brownie mix *cough*) and here’s the recipe, should you want to have your children chase dessert around like a couple of skinny vultures. I made ours gluten-free, which made The Baby say "That dessert is for ME?" with such a note of shocked excitement in her voice that I practically WEPT. Geez, kid.
Okay, now for some news! The awesome people at Cuisinart have sent me a gorgeous pressure cooker to give away! If you want to get healthy meals on the table fast, this would be SUCH a blessing for you – all you have to do to enter is to leave me a comment saying you’re interested. There will be a random draw on Sunday and I’ll announce the winner next Monday. Good luck! (and sorry, non-Canadian folks, but this one is for Canadians only. Shipping!)
I would love to win this pressure cooker. The one I have right now works when it wants to lol, so this would be great.
I would like to be entered into the contest. Merci
can’t wait to try it if i win!!!
I would definitely love how to use a pressure cooker! This would be a fabulous addition to my kitchen 🙂
I would love to try using a pressure cooker. I grew up with the story of the pea soup that exploded out of the family pressure cooker and have always been a little hesitant. But your pictures make it look not scary at all!!
I would love to start cooking with a pressure cooker. Please enter me.
I would love to be entered.
12 minutes for the food – my family would love it!!!!
OK Rebecca…I am so impressed by your recipe, I can’t wait to get my little hands on that pressure cooker and give it a try…Oh and could you also send the child that uses her allowance to buy fancy rice too!!! LOL. That is the sweetest thing. 🙂
Can’t wait to try that dessert, my kids will LOVE it.
Pleeeeeezzzzzeee enter me into the draw for the pressure cooker. Thank you
Jennifer
Slow cooker cooks better tasting food.
I would love that pressure cooker – I could finally eat brown rice at home! And, it doesn’t look anywhere near as scary as the one my mom used to use.
i am interested in the pressure cooker
Am I too late? I’d like to speed things up.
I have recenlty discovered the joys of a slow Cooker – I would love to add a pressure cooker to my bag of quick dinner tricks!
Great looking and useful appliance, good luck everyone count me in
I would love to win this prize!!! 12 mins for rice – count me in!!!
wow, I would just love one of these! Please count me in!
If it’s not too late, count me in. That dessert looks amazing. I know some little peeps who’d love to try it.
Coming from the ranks of those who cannot cook to save our lives- this would be a welcomed addition to our kitchen.
Thanks!!!!
I’d like to give one of these a try, add me in please.
Count me in to try this one.
This would make feeding the boys healthy food a lot easier. Throw my name in.
Never had one or cooked with one but I am up for it. Please enter me
I work with a family that can’t live without their pressure cooker – maybe it’s time to give one a try!
My sister-in-law told me to check you out. You do not disappoint. I’m in.
I might actually be able to do brown rice properly with this. Thanks for the great contest.
What a terrific prize! Enter me, please.
Count me in for the contest. Tried your brownie/strawberry/banana dessert last night – I am now Queen Mom – with 3 boys and a hubby thats a feat so thanks a mil!
I would love a pressure cooker! Ive never owned one but always wanted one!
I’d love to win the pressure cooker. Thanks!
I would love to have a pressure cooker. I had one many years ago, it’s gone now, and a new one would be great to have.
I love cooking ‘under pressure’!
What a great concept, counter top pressure cooker.
We would love to have this.
I’m a stay-at-home mom with 3 kids under the age of 3 so I do a lot of one-dish meals. A pressure cooker sure would be a big help!
Thanks for having this contest.
would be great to have a pressure cooker. As 1 I’m lazy and 2 we dont have one.
I use a crockpot, but always wondered how to use a pressure cooker. I am definitely interested. Thanks!
This would make me be a great cooker for my wife.
What a generous company to donate a prize!
i have always wanted to buy a pressure cooker. i’m learning cooking so this would be a great addition to my kitchen.
My mother swore by hers, I never really tried it myself, I would love to have the opportunity to try. Thank you for the great giveaway!
Yes I am very interested in this giveaway! A pressure cooker would be wonderful! Please enter me and thank you!
I need a new pressure cooker. My mom gave me my old one, and well… it may have been from her wedding registry. It has yellow and brown flowers on an orange background. Its not even retro cool…
I’d love a pressure cooker. Had one in the 80s and my ex-husband threw it out. :[
My mother used and depended on hers
at least 3 or 4 nights a week for about 20 years. It made her life much much easier – particularly with all us kids to cook for.
She must have known something – about time I learned my lesson too. Would love to try.
I catch a lot of Salmon.This would be awesome for my kids!
Sure I’d like to win. ‘cuz then I get to eat!
I would love to win this pressure cooker !!! This could facilitate greatly my meal time.
I have always been a little apprehensive about pressure cookers, they have always frightened me, but obviously the technology has changed from the monsters from many years ag0.
I have always wanted a pressure cooker, but really couldn’t think of a lot of meals to cook in it.
I haven’t seen a pressure cooker since my mom and grandma used them! I secrety was very afraid of them…..always had visions of the entire meal being blasted onto the ceiling! After rading about this though, I really would like to try it. It seems much more user-friendly than the old ones, and I think even I couldn’t screw it up! Carolyn M
Id love a pressure cooker.Creating different meals is a pleasurable passtime for me .I have always wanted one but never got around to getting one!
I often have my timing off with certain dishes…..something that cooks so fast would be perfect for me!
WOW! This would be a wonderful addition to my kitchen. :0)
Mmmm, I love brown rice…it’s making me hungry just thinking that I could make it in less than 15 min! Please enter me in the giveaway for the pressure cooker so I can make rice too!
Cheers!
12 minutes …..now thats was I call fast food…and healthy too.
I’ll try your wild rice recipe. Ahh… I’ll be needing that pressure cooker. 😉
My dad, a single guy, uses his pressure cooker all the time and has convinced me to try and get one as well. Meats cook quickly and come out of the pot nice and tender. No more stand over a stove forever waiting for things to cook.
Please enter me in your contest to win the Cuisinart pressure cooker. Thank you.
wow only 12 minutes thats awesome I’d love the pressure cooker more time to spend with the wee ones thanks
My friend has one of these and loves it. Would love to make my dinner planning a little easier.
This would be so totally cool to have as we seem to always be scrambling around at dinner time sying “what’s for dinner”. My family sure could use this as healthy eating has become part of our lives now.
I’m TOTALLY interested in this cooker… Anything that saves me time and hassle in the kitchen is a winner, as far as I’m concerned!
Your rice looks really good. I would love to win this item!
Oh my, a counter top electric pressure cooker. If I don’t win it’s on my wish list.
I would like to win !
I would love to win this great prize. My family and I could really…. use this!!!!
I would love to win this great prize. My family and I could really…. use this!!!!
looks wonderful
My Mom used a pressure cooker all the time when we were growing up. It saved lots of time cooking things like potatoes and stews. I would love to try making fast meals and saving time in my busy schedule.
Cooking appliances are my passion!
I am always looking for ways to make healthy food for my family in a hurry. I would love to have a pressure cooker!
What a terrific idea your husband had to use your pressure cooker for the brown rice so your daughter would not be disappointed. Way to go dad!
Great contest, I would love to win this.
Anything that speeds up meals but still lets me eat healthy is something that I want!
What at great time saver for a busy family. I would love to win this.
Sure would be a great help in our kitchen!
Would love to win a Cuisinart Pressure Cooker. Never thought about cooking rice in it though. What a great time saver! Cooked broccoli in it once – didn’t work! Had green stew! LOL! It was very tasty though. Mine is an old one that makes me nervous cause hubby yells “Boom” everytime we use it!
I am definitely interested.
I’d love a pressure cooker. The strawberry dessert looks yummy too!
What a great kitchen tool, even my husband would appreciate the coolness of it! Count me in please!
great prize would really like this
This would be great to own. We do tons of pressure cooking.
I would love to have one of these.
I want to have this. I am very interested in this.
oh yes! oh yes yes!
my friend keep telling me to get a pressure cooker so i hope to win this one.
I would love to win this beautiful pressure cooker.
Very nice and generous prize! Wow, it looks like a nice one, I want it!!!!
I’d like a pressure cooker because I like to cook beans and legumes from the dried to save money. I always seem to make a big mess with pots of beans overflowing foam and sticking on the stovetop. Yuck!
I am guessing a pressure cooker would make the process faster and cleaner. Thanks!!
I would love to have one.
I am very interested in this, I’ve wanted one for a while!
I am interested in trying the pressure cooker. It looks really easy.
This would be perfect for me and my little girl.
the brown rice dish looks yummy – pressure cooker would certainly make vegetarian meals quick and easy
I’ve always been afraid to use a pressure cooker for fear that it would explode because I did something wrong. This pressure cooker appears to be idiot-proof and I would love to win one and cook up a storm(without lightning and thunder).
I have to give Cuisinart another pat on the back. I like that it’s non stick and dishwasher safe and cooks food fast – how great is that! With three kids I could REALLY use one. Thanks for the contest!
Cori
I remember my Mum using it in the 70’s, lloks like a great wedding gift. Would love to Win!!1
Cooking meals quickly is key. I really need a pressure cooker!
This would make dinners so easy! I am certainly interested in this!
Would love the pressure cooker – haven’t used one before!
I would love to have a Cuisinart pressure cooker to add to my kitchen. I have a few of their other kitchen appliances and they are a joy to have for meal prep. I’ve never tried a pressure cooker, but I do have many recipes at the ready just in case… Thanks!
Anything to make meal preparation quicker is a blessing.
Would like to have something this great to use, my husband loves to cook and now that I am convalescing from an illness it would be a great help in the kitchen.
Pressure cooker – never had one; but everyone who does have one, loves it. Would be awesome to win one! Thanks
I must say i have never used a pressure cooker, would love to have one. With 2 little children its getting more of a challange to cook interesting healthy meals, this would make my life a lot easier.
oh, silly me – looked up recipe – banana
I look forward to training my 2 teenage sons on using this wonderful device!!
OH YES PLEASE !
I too have a very old one that I don’t dare use any more, except as a regular pot.
Also love the look of your dessert – what is the ‘mystery’ item layered with the strawberries?
Hi! Please enter me in the draw for the Cuisinart pressure cooker. It looks so modern compared to my old pressure cooker (which I am slightly afraid of). Thanks!
Too Cool! Perfect for making healthy meals for our children on hectic days!
I would LOVE to win a Cuisinart pressure cooker! Your rice looks delicous!
I have always wanted one of these, my grandmother had an old one from the 50’s but it always looked complicated and unsafe. My how the times have changed! THis would defidetly get used in my home, we love rice!
I’m interested in winning!
Be great to have this-as a busy single mom would alow many more home cooked meals
Thats awesome, it would help us eat healthier 🙂
I’d love to win!
Wow! Thais would make my life easier. Think of all the possibilities!
Great! Wonder what else that will cook fast?
This would be a great addition to my kitchen
What can I say…my wife and I have 7 kids and a busy life. I’d love to try your approach to making fast meals. Never thought of a pressure cooker though. Thanks for considering us!
Love your step by step instructions. I would love to win and experiment your recipes on my own.
love, love, love a pressure cooker!
Count me in, my wife would really enjoy this
I would love to win 😀 Thanks so much. Love the dessert, off to buy the brownie mix now….
This is a great Prize, I have always wanted one of these.
I so hope I win this!
count me in, please!
Woohoo! I absolutely need one!
I would love to get a pressure cooker.
I love the rice!! Tried it, but without the pressure cooker took a bit longer to cook. Hope to give it a try with a presure cooker something. Love the contest, thanks for having it.
I totally need this. I just moved to my new place and have no pressure cooker! This will be awesome.
I definitely want to win this!
Anything that is going to help me prepare and get the meals on the table in a simpler manner is welcome in my home.
I have never used a pressure cooker, but have wanted to try one. Thanks for the giveaway!
oh I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to win this!!! And thanks for the all Canadian giveaway!
I’d love to try using this.
How wonderful is that? A Canadian only giveaway. Gotta love that! Thanks so much for the chance. Please enter me in your giveaway. 🙂
It brings back thoughts of mom’s cooking…I can almost smell it now. I would love to try a pressure cooker. I am a woman with limited time and a yen to try new things. Sign me up!!
I’d be very interested in trying a pressure cooker if it makes life easier!
I have wanted a pressure cooker for ages and looking at that fabulous brown rice makes me want one even more!!
I’ve never tried one, but have heard they are an easy way to have dinner ready all in one pot. Would love to try it out. Looks easy and yummy!
Wow!!!That brown rice looks appetizing and the dessert looks delish. I pray that I win but if not I am going to save up to buy the pressure cooker.
I would LOVE to win this!!
finally, something for us canadians! i haven’t had a pressure cooker for so many years now and miss it.
I would love to win this!
please please please give me the pressure cooker! i have been dying to get a good one!
The brown rice seems delicious. We like it too but my husband wants his meals in a hurry. He snacks in the afternoon and then says he isn’t hungry at suppertime. Then,he when he does get hungry, he wants his meal right away. The pressure cooker could be the perfect answer.
The brown rice seems delicious. We like it too but my husband wants his meals in a hurry. He snacks in the afternoon and then says he isn’t hungry at suppertime. Then,he when he does get hungry, he wants his meal right away. The pressure cooker could be the perfect answer.
The brown rice seems delicious. We like it too but my husband wants his meals in a hurry. He snacks in the afternoon and then says he isn’t hungry at suppertime. Then,he when he does get hungry, he wants his meal right away. The pressure cooker could be the perfect answer.
I always try to do brown rice too and always have the same problem – deciding on it too late & giving up & cooking it at the last minute. I would love this pressure cooker!
Oooo- that is one of the kitchen gadgets that I don’t have yet.
Oh this look so amazing !! Thank you for the great giveaway offer. Your dessert looks fabulous !! Elizabeth
This is awesome, my kids eat so much rice I can’t ever seem to make enough….but with only 12 minutes to make it I could whip up some more in no time!!!! This would be a well used appliance in our house, plus I would love to see what else I could cook up in there!!!!
Nice, it looks like it acts like a modern crock pot.
Very cool. What’s the price point?
Idas
My husband ‘loves’ rice and we don’t have a pressure cooker. It would be a great addition for our kitchen and it would be used a lot!
Wow, I could cook up a storm….quickly! My fingers are crossed.
Enter me to win please! Looks great.
What an awesome product…..my fiancee would be so happy if I won this.
Cuisinart is a great brand. I would LOVE to have this appliance in my kitchen! I have never cooked with one before, but your demo makes it looks so easy!!
Cuisinart is a great brand. I would LOVE to have this appliance in my kitchen!
I’ve been wanting a pressure cooker for a while, but haven’t bought one. It’d be awesome to win one!
Wow! Brown Rice in 12 minutes and it looks so delicious. This would really help us get back to eating better foods – we are eating out way too often. Please throw my name into the hat. Thanks!
I would like to get more beans into our meals, but forget to soak them overnight, so, inevitably, I either use canned or none at all. A pressure cooker would make up for my lack of foresight! Sign me up!
OMG!!! I would love to be the proud owner of that pressure cooker! 12min – brown rice? I’m aghast at the possiblilites 🙂
I would be so happy to win a pressure cooker, the new appliance looks wonderful and I know it would really help my family, while striving to eat healthier dinners. Thank you. K.
The faster I can put a decent meal on the table, the better I like it. Yes, I’m definitely interested in a pressure cooker! Sign me UP!
My husband does the cooking in our house and getting dinner to the table quickly is important to all of us (so the little one can get to bed at a decent hour), so a new pressure cooker would be an awesome help to us! I might even eat brown rice if it’s that quick and easy!
Okay the rice in 12 minutes has me sold. What a great time saver! Now I need one in my kitchen!!
I love the sound of fast, delicious, nutritious meals! I just found out that I have type 2 diabetes, so this great pressure cooker would certainly help me make healthier meals and that’s extremely important!
Very interested, never tried one but would love to learn!
I’m interested 🙂
My crockpot is already a favorite indentured servent in my kitchen, but a way to cook up healthy brown rice in just 12 mins would be fabulous. That way my lonely crockpot slave could have a friend in servitude.
healthy meals on the table fast? i am interested…
This would be awesome. Thanks so much!!
Great prize. I would love to be included.
I love anything that makes cooking easier and faster. Thanks!
Pick me – I too only cook brown rice, but alas, I always think of it 10 minutes before dinners ready. Save me from my brown rice wowes!
That would be very useful to me … Please enter me.
That would be very useful to me … Please enter me.
I have never tried a pressure cooker, but I would absolutely love to! Thank you for the super cool giveaway!
I’m interested!
I’m trying to learn to cook and I need all the help I can get.
12 minutes for wild and brown rice – this is
for sure one rice cooker I would love to win.
I started using wild and/or brown rice just in the
last year. I now enjoy the flavour so much more
than white rice.
I’ve never cooked with a pressure cooker. I’d love to if it can make brown rice in only 12 minutes! I’m always wanting lentils and forgetting that they take forever to make.
I also have 3 kids. Brown rice in 12 minutes sounds too good to be true. I’m definitely in for the draw!!
Hi Rebecca,
I am interested in the draw please and thank you for sharing those fabulous recipes!
I still have hope in convincing my husband that brown rice is not only good for you but tastes good too 😉
Christina
This would be GREAT to add to my many cusinart appliances that I could not live with out…..
I would love to win this!
Woohoo! Rice in 12 minutes – that rocks. I’m a mom of 4 kids (ranging in age from 8 months to 7 years). Do I ever remember to start the rice early for dinner…not usually! This would be an awesome appliance to have in our home! Oh please…draw my name!
This is amazing! I love technology (at the moment anyways:)
Please enter my name for the pressure cooker…I’ve always wanted…and your dessert pizza looks fabulous!
I’d love one of these. 3 young children and rice in 12 minutes… sounds like the perfect combo. I’m in.
Sign me up! I’m going to school full-time, working part-time and have a two year old. Translation: I would LOVE a pressure cooker, please and thank you:)
I love brown rice too, but don’t make it very often because of the cooking time. I have a very active 16 month old, and plan on adding to that soon, so anything that can make life healthier and easier is on my list of things to buy! Plus I’m proud to be Canadian!
I would love to win this cooker! I love brown rice too, have you tried black rice? Very tasty…
I was just saying to my husband that I would love to get a pressure cooker. Brown rice in 12 minutes?! That’s crazy!
Oh wow! I mean wow…12 mins is amazing!
My hubby must be like yours. He’d waaaaaaaaay rather have white rice and the kids…are with him..sigh.
I’d love the pressure cooker! Looks awesome and I’m Canadian too which is also great! Gotta love a draw just for us. How often does that happen?!
I have 5 kids and would love any appliance that would make life easier.
I would love the chance to win this pressure cooker since I just moved out on my own and I am trying to build up my set of quality small appliances.
Count me in. Anything that isn’t cooked on the BBQ sounds like heaven at the moment. My 3 year old loved the dessert! I love things that are healthy and taste great.
Wow this is an awesome pressure cooker. Thank you for the contest. Please enter me
Thank yo.
Nice giveaway!. count me in.
So very generous…thanks!
I second everyone’s comments on the versatility and convenience it would be to own a pressure cooker. Please count me in on the draw.
yourstrulee(at)sasktel(dot)net
pressure cookers seem amazing! I’d love to have one.
this would be the perfect addition to my kitchen gadets….
I’m crossing my fingers and toes!!!
great site! hope i win!
Please enter me for the pressure cooker — winning this would be so awesome!!! Thanks.
This would be a great win, it sure would making cooking easier.
Would this ever save time! Thanks for the great giveaway.
Healthy meals in a jiffy, who doesn’t want that?! I certainly do! Great idea with the browning of onions and carrots to make it even tastier. My husband detests brown rice. But then again I’m not very good at cooking it.
We love brown rice in our house! How sweet that your daughter bought it herself! Thanks for the give-a-way!
I’ve also got three kids, girls, ages 6,5 & 3. If that doesn’t make my life hectic enough, then how about the fact that I am starting school FULL-TIME in September!?
This pressure cooker would be such a time saver for me! It would be so lovely to pick them up from daycare & know that supper is ready & waiting!
Thanks for the awesome contest!
I would love to win a pressure cooker. The very idea of having brown rice cook in 12 minutes sounds just lovely!!
Sure, I’d LOVE to have a pressure cooker! Sometimes I get really busy with freelance work, and it’s a juggling act to put dinner on the table for my family and finish my rush writing jobs. This way, I can throw everything in the cooker and have a fab meal – and not have to babysit the cooker. Hey, it’s bad enough I have to ‘babysit’ my clients!
My 16 year old has decided to eat healthy and brown rice is on top of her great foods list so I can empathize with you. Her father and brother are always commenting “Is it done yet?”. Patience certainly is difficult to learn and a reduced cooking time in our busy, sports first, house would be a welcome thing.
Definitely interested! In fact, more than interested! I would LOVE to win!
dlcwin[at]gmail[dot]com
Sounds neat… have never used one but this one looks pretty simple.
I’d love to win, so please count me in. Thanks for the chance.
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Your food looks amazing. I’d love a pressure cooker, what a great giveaway!
Any way to make dinner faster is fantastic. Count me in please!
pressure cooker sounds fab! love to try it!
Anything to make my life easier would be great. I suffer from infertility so I have been unable to have kids of my own but I am always watching my nephews. When I have them I love doing activities and taking them places and this would allow me to do this. Please add me to the contest.
Hi, so just checking back, somehow the comments aren’t being credited to the right person, I posted as Wildroses193 and signed Pam to the signature, just to let you know. Anyhow, don’t know if anyone else minds. This is a great giveaway and don’t want anyone to be disappointed. Pam
Okay, who wouldn’t want to cut down on time preparing meals.Add me to the contest,please.
Count me in for the draw! Thanks!!!
I would love to try this out. I’ve always wanted a pressure cooker and I LOVE brown rice.
I’m definitely interested in the contest! Would love to win a pressure cooker.
Wow, what an awesome time-saving prize to win. Count me in. I too have been leery about using a pressure cooker but I trust and love the Cuisinart brand and the picture of it looks so safe to use. Love the digitals on it.
I tasted the short rib recipe that was made in this pressure cooker at a kitchen party. It was fabulous and so fast. I didn’t know ribs could cook that fast. I want one of my own.
I am definitely interested in getting this pressure cooker! I cook everyday and surely I need this kitchen tool to make healthy and fast meals to feed our family of 6. Pick me, please!
Soooooo interested!!!
I have always been afraid of pressure cookers. When I was young, my mom used to use one on occasion, and the sound it made terrified me. I always thought it would explode one day. Now, as a wife and mother of four, aged 8 to 1 (turns 1 today!), I’m ready to take the plunge. My husband is only interested in home cooked meals and healthy food, and since I work, am a soccer mom, and want to do what’s best for my family, winning this pressure cooker would be beyond fabulous!
dinner in 12 minutes! – I’m definitely interested in the contest! I get home from work as my husband leaves for work (stay at home dad) and having dinner on the table in less than an hour is a dream with a toddler and currently getting morning sickness at dinner time! Thanks for the great recipes!
Pick me, pick me!!!! I keep looking at these in the store and still haven’t bought one but would love one!!!
Hi, I would love to have a pressure cooker! This year I planted a garden and it is amazing! There is going to be such a good yield of peas, beans, dills, beets, onions, tomatoes, and I would love to have the pressure cooker to can all of these things. The garden was a forethought – my husband has been out of work for over six months and still looking, looking but nothing yet. It’s the same all around. So…..what a blessing this pressure cooker would be to me. Thanks, Pam
Rice in 12 minutes? Even Brown rice? Wow. Thanks for a great giveaway!
This would be AWESOME! I am the same way about forgetting to get things started an hour before hand, so we usually go with cheaper faster meals, that aren’t so healthy. This would be a great addition to my kitchen things. Thanks for the great giveaway!
I am glad I am not the only one who cannot plan a meal ahead because any brains that may have ever resided in my head fled in terror when my daughter was born…
OMG, please count me in this draw, anything to make cooking faster and easier is wonderful. Plus I am kind of a Cuisinart appliance junkie… Sad but true.
we cook from scratch a lot including dried beans etc so a pressure cooker would be amazing.I can remember my mum having one when i was small”)
I would love to win this… what a great idea!
I would love to have one a pressure cooker, it would save me so much time! Please enter me in the contest. Thank you!
Brown rice in 12 minutes??! That’s amazing! Count me in for the giveaway!!
me me me me me me…
I would love this item.
It would add another tool in my weekly meal planning.
Btw… I am interested in the pressure cooker 😉
A rice cooker can be a godsend! When I went away with my Auntie in her motor home, she used her rice cooker to cook everything. She boiled potatoes, made scrambled eggs, packaged scalloped potatoes, and most impressive was a small roast of beef with potatoes and carrots from frozen to done in under 2 hours. If you think brown rice cooked in 12 minutes is impressive then try a roast dinner in under 2 hours, with all of the trimmings. Amazing!!!!
I would LOVE to try this… I am getting so sick of white rice…
I cook rice regularly in a 25 year old rice cooker. Time for an update!! 🙂
I can’t wait to use this receipe….soooo fast and good!
My mum had a pressure cooker too and used it to great deliciousness! I have often thought of getting one, and wining one would be even better!
Wow, 12 minutes! And the rice looks really moist too! Great little kitchen appliance for family that’s always on the go, go go! Please enter me into the pressure cooker contest – I’m definitely interested! Thanks for posting your recipes too…
Canadians only? You don’t see that very often! I’m in 🙂 Brown rice is one of the healthy things my picky 3 year old will actually eat. Thanks for the chance!
Wow, that’s a really cool pressure cooker. My mom used to always use it to make dinners when I was younger but she never got around to teaching me useful things like making brown rice in less than 20 mins (then again we were a very white rice in a rice cooker family). Nowadays my entire family (3 generations!) eats brown rice. Would love to have a pressure cooker in our family (the rest of my family lives on the east coast, I’m on the west) so popping over to borrow their pressure cooker would be a bit difficult.
Great recipe!
I would love a pressure cooker. Thank you.
hey when you are a guy and your mom lives 400 miles away and you don’t how to cook a pressure thingy is the ultimate lifesaver.
My mother swears by her old fashioned pressure cooker. She has been using it for over 35 years. I, on the other hand, have never gotten one. But after reading your blog, it seems to me that Pressure Cookers are the way to go for healthy fast food and I hope I can score one here. Thanks.
Count me in the Draw
Wow…12 minute rice!! I would love to win the pressure cooker 🙂
My mother had a pressure cooker and used it a lot – yes, the old heavy one that you had to “lock” the top on by lining it up just “so” then twisting then put the wobbly whistling thing on the top. I remember one time she didn’t get something right and the whistler flew up into the air (nearly hit the ceiling) and the lid blew off as well. The pressure cooker got put away after that and gathered dust. I have no idea what happened to it. I would love to be able to win this and see how Cuisinart has redesigned an old standard and be able to use one because the food that used to come out of my mother’s and my aunt’s was definitely delicious !
I would love to win this pressure cooker. Please pick me! Thanks.
I have never used a pressure cooker but after reading your article I’m going to look into one. Unless of course I win this one!
Amazing!
My daughter is learning to make more flavorful and nutrient rich vegetarian meals for herself as well as the family. The problem is that she does not enjoy staying in the kitchen for things to cook! A pressure cooker would be a life-saver, for her and me.
And I thought my daughter was the only one to buy health food with allowance!
I have never used a pressure cooker before and would love the opportunity to win one. Please enter my name in the giveaway.
wow how much have pressure cookers changed. My parents had one when I was growing up, but it was the big, heavy pot that had a whistling valve on the top. We used to make white rice or the ever dreaded stew in it (the only part I would eat was the dough boys, teehee). As a busy mom of three boys, two playing rep soccer (aka soccer every night of the week,) a pressure cooker would greatfully be received in our house, I would love to be enetered into this giveaway.
I have five children, and you think you have trouble remembering?????lol 🙂 I would love to win the Cuisinart Pressure Cooker. Love the reciepes, can’t wait to try them.
I love your pictures and all the information regarding your experience with the pressure cooker. I have never used a pressure cooker. Didn’t realize it could cook that much faster. I believe I need to add this appliance to my kitchen. Would love to win this. Thanks.
Seems AMY and my post got the messages mixed up, she has my post and I had her’s
Posted by:Amy | July 30, 2008 at 11:20 AM
I would love to be entered into your Cuisinart pressure cooker giveaway,
with a family of two teens a toddler and a hubby, there is just not enough time in the day to make everything at once, this would help us tremendously.
thank you for the opportunity 🙂
Have a wonderful day.
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Posted by:LOUISE SIROT | July 30, 2008 at 11:19 AM
I would love a pressure cooker! Never used one but sounds wicked handy!
I typed the following.”
thank you for the opportunity to win the Cuisinart pressure cooker, with a family of 5, two teens and a toddler, there just isn’t enough time in the day,
thanks again.
have a great day.
thanks for the great tips..and I’m also interested in the contest. Thank you =)
I have never owned or used a pressure cooker and had no idea that it cooked so quickly or is so versatile.
I would love to be entered into the draw please.
Winning this pressure cooker would be awesome, I have never used one before I would love to try it out!
I would love to be entered into your Cuisinart pressure cooker giveaway,
with a family of two teens a toddler and a hubby, there is just not enough time in the day to make everything at once, this would help us tremendously.
thank you for the opportunity 🙂
Have a wonderful day.
I would love a pressure cooker! Never used one but sounds wicked handy!
Good Morning Rebecca,I am a stay at home Dad of 5 wonderful kids. The pressure cooker would help out alot seeing that I’m taking online courses.It would free up some valiable time.Thanks for the opportunity,Cheers Scott
You know I’ve never used a pressure cooker before, but cooking brown rice so quickly has sold me on the idea of owning one!
We switched to brown rice a few months ago and everyone loves it; but it does take a bit longer to cook.
This would be just awesome to win! Thanks for the great giveaway!
We are trying really hard to eat healthier at our house so this pressure cooker would be an amazing asset. Please enter me as well!
Hi!
I tried brown rice for the first time yesterday and the result was delicious. I used a recipe from the Campbell’s Soup book. Can’t wait to try it again and cooking with a pressure cooker would be quick and easy.
I love this idea almost every meal i cook has rice to go with it i have 3 kids and the main meal they like is to have there rice and anything that would make it easier to feed them what they enjoy would be great i would also enjoy being able to make other meals with it and if i can get things cooked earier that would be wonderful with my husband working the midnight shift and kids going to school to know that what i cook would be done faster than on the stove and is green friendly is the best way to go so i would totally love to win this so i can help to save the environment
Would love to win a pressure cooker. I actually have a box of brown rice sittin in my cupboard, waiting to be made. Please enter me.
PLease, Please enter me in I would love to have one that come with tons of receipts ofcurse. Thanks
Wild Rice is not true rice but really a grain that drops into water and is harvested like cranberries. Please enter me in to this contest so we can enjoy our favorite Manitoba treat.
What a great idea! I have 2 yo twin boys and a 4 yo daughter and anything that can help make meals fast, but also more nutritious would be fantastic! Some days, I’m lucky to eat at all!! 🙂
Please enter me in the contest!
We would love to have this pressure cooker. We are big-time rice eaters in our family, especially our 2 1/2 year old and hubby.
Please enter me in the contest! What an awesome idea – I would love to win this – anything that speeds up dinner for a busy family is perfect!!
I would love to win a pressure cooker. We eat rice a lot, and t would be a much needed time saver.
That brownie dessert looks terrific…
Please enter me in the contest – it would be great to have a pressure cooker!
i’m in! cheers.
I would love to win this! I love things that make getting dinner to the table quicker and easier.
I would love to win the Pressure Cooker! Anything that helps make food quicker & more healthy is great in my books! That is so cute about buying fancy brown rice with allowance… if only my kiddos could pick some of that gumption up!
The idea of spending less time in the kitchen appeals to me and my family still gets great tasting healthy food. A win win situation for all.
I am interested in a pressure cooker. I too love brown rice. Once cooked, I add a little hoisin sauce, some chopped dried apricots and chopped green onions. It’s a great side dish with pork.
I have some other Cuisinart appliances and appreciate their quality. I remember my mother occasionally using a pressure cooker but I don’t think she’s used it for decades! I was amazed and intrigued to learn that you can cook brown rice in 12 minutes in one! I’d be thrilled to win one.
What an awesome timesaver! Please count me in for the draw!
My 3 starving children and husband may ACTUALLY get to eat if we had one of these things – no more last minute pasta because there isn’t time to cook anything else! 🙂 Definitely interested!!!
Looks delicious! Hope I win 😀
I have been a long time user of the pressure cooker. It’s great for cooking those long boiling veggies — that soaked in water lose all their vitamins. And what a beauty Cuisinart has designed! Count me in!
Love the pressure cooker idea…my Mom used to use one when I was young! Would love to win one for our family to use. Please enter me for the draw.
I am looking forward to trying your dessert recipe….need to make low carb tho!
What a fantastic addition to the kitchen this electric pressure cooker would be. I love the idea of brown rice in 12 mins — that’s even quicker than conventional converted rice! This really made the light go on for me, as there would be so many recipes I’d like to try that would be timesavers!!!! (Less time and more nutritious than store bought prepared foods)
This sounds wonderful. The idea of the pressure cooker is great but the old style ones are a bit scary!
Oh, I would LOVE to win this pressure cooker! I have an old one, but it’s kind of scary to use…I never really know if I have it put together properly and it’s going to explode! Makes for a bit of a stressful cooking experience…but I love the results one can achieve from it!
I would love to win the pressure cooker. I remember my grandmother using hers but I don’t know for what. If I win I will have to do some investigating.
A pressure cooker would come in handy here too, since I have four little people who always seem to be hungry.
We are always looking for ways to get more healthy meals on the table more quickly.
Candace
Great idea for brown rice; I have a teenager who only loves brown rice & also this would be great for other meals after work – thanks
A pressure cooker would come in very hand in my home!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
I would love this, like most I hardly ever serve things like brown rice because i usually never have enough time left after I run to pick up 4 kids from their various locations. Your dessert looks fabulous, can’t wait to try it.
I would love to be entered for the draw. The pressure cooker is making a comeback and is something I would love to try to make heathier meals faster.
I have never used a pressure cooker and my mom used to use hers for canning. This way of cooking brown rice sounds fabulous and makes me wonder what else I could cook quickly when I am in a hurry. Would love to win it.
That is a gorgeous dessert! Brown rice in only 12 minutes intrigues me. Winning a pressure cooker would really make that easy.
This sounds great. I do not know how to cook very well and have three small children. Sound like this would be a wonderful help and healthy too.
Thanks for the great recipes. I would love to win a pressure cooker. Please enter my name too, thanks.
Holy cow, 12 minutes? My kids also love brown rice (I do too) but like you, I usually forget to cook it in advance. If I don’t win the pressure cooker, I think I might buy one!
I never thought of cooking rice in the pressure cooker before. Gadgets are so helpful. I’d love to have one.
I would LOVE to win this pressure cooker! Thanks for the great recipes too, the dessert looks delicious!
I am interested! That is very cool. I never knew much about pressure cookers before. I don’t know anyone that has one. The rice looked excellent and easy.
The pressure cooker seems to be making a comeback and I’m really interested in trying it out!
12 minutes for brown rice? That’s absolutely amazing!! I would love the chance to win this pressure cooker for my family. Ellen
12 minutes for brown rice ? Amazing !!!!
And that would simplify life so much for me ….. I work evening shift and often prep dinner before going to work.
I’d love to be entered in the draw …. thanks !
A pressure cooker would be so fabulously useful . Thanks for adding me to the draw list .
Linda x
My Mother-in-law used her pressure cooker ALL the time!! She cooked practically everything in it.
Yes, I would love to win one…
This Mom can’t remember anything anymore either…. Why didn’t someone tell us when giving birth not to push so hard as it will force your brain memory to float out your ears!
Check out motherloadtv on you tube for my video blogs and comedy shorts I think you’ll feel my pain !(motherloadtv is all one word)
p.s. Cuisinart has a great ice cream/yogurt/slushie/ice coffee,tastes just like a Second Cup Chiller Yum!!!!)
Oh is there a contest to enter, I can’t remember…
As a full time working mother of two this sure would come in handy at meal time. The kids would be surprised that dinner is on the table before 7 or 8pm!
My Mother cooked with one when I was a kid and made the most delicious meals. Please include me in the draw.
I have a friend who swears by her pressure cooker. Frankly I’ve been too scared to buy one.
Winning one to try would be awesome!
I would love this to help me make a fast healthy fresh dinner in stead of frozen meals.
wow, this makes dinner a total breeze, winning this would make my family eat a little more healthy, if not, it will get on my christmas want list for sure,
Thank you for this wonderful prize.
What a great way to make rice. I will definitely try this if I win. Please enter me.
Pressure cookers are being rediscovered! I’ve been seeing alot more recipes using same and would love to have one to experiment with so PLEASE INCLUDE ME IN THE DRAW.
This would be awesome!!!less time in the kitchen more time with the kiddos!
I’m so excited! My friend always raves about her pressure cooker. Please enter me into the contest but more importantly please pick me to win!!!
PLease add me to the draw. I’d love to win this. It would make healthier cookiing after I get in from work, so much easier!
Hi, I would love to have this in my kitchen. My family and I love to cook and it would save lots of time and the food tastes great and is more nutritious too!
Thanks
OK My previous comment seems to have been posted under someone else named Sandra. – Don’t know how that happened. I posted the one about the lid blowing off when I was a kid.
Please enter my name.
This would be AWESOME to win!!!!!!!!!!
Yes count me in on the offer. This would be a great change from my boring micro-rice cooker.
My mother has a thing for brown rice. But without a pressure cooker she has to soak it in water overnight before cooking it in our rice cooker. This method almost always produces chewy rice. I’m not a fan of chewy rice and for that matter brown rice. The pressure cooker and the recipe look great as a solution to our family’s disharmony over this matter.
What a great addition to my kitchen that would be!
Thanks so much
Who wouldn’t want a pressure cooker in their kitchen? Mine just went on the fritz, so a replacement would be awesome!!
Would love to own a pressure cooker! It would inspire me to learn how to use one! 🙂
A pressure cooker to take off the pressure of preparing healthy easy meals….yes, yes, yes, please sign me up.
Many thanks.
Anissa
I would love to have it
and use it for my family
12 minute rice sounds fantastic, please enter my name. Thanks!
This pressure cooker looks like it would be a great addition to a cooks kitchen!
Sounds like our family, the kids and I like brown rice, not so much the spouse!
I also remember pressure cookers from childhood and being told to stay back. Sounds like they are making a comeback, but safer. I’d love to win one!
My mom used to use a pressure cooker when I was young and I do remember the lid blowing off one time. I have not been brave enough to buy one, but cooking the brown rice in 12 minutes sounds interesting enough to try one. Please include me in the contest, BTW I am going to try the dessert recipe on the weekend. Having a family get together so this would go over well.
I don’t think my comment showed up? Atleast I don’t see it. Wow I am craving that brownie dessert now 😛
I don’t have a pressure cooker and have always wanted one. Sounds like a real asset to my kitchen! Your recipes sound awesome too.
I live in Niagara Falls, Canada. If I win – come visit and I’ll cook you something!
My colleagues (and my mom, too) swear by their pressure cookers, and while my husband would say that there isn’t room in my kitchen, I’d love to win this pressure cooker!
Wow I would love to win that, I love brown rice. By the way that brownie looks so yummy!!
Of course put me down for the giveaway. It would be nice to actually serve my family a healthier rice. Great recipe too btwA!
Oh this would be so handy – and yes, I’m a Canadian!
I have always been afraid of pressure cookers…my Mom used to use one to make stews and used to caution me to stand back as it could “explode”…Enough said. I don’t need to eat that badly! But this one looks a lot safer and more my speed…I had no idea that cuisinart even made pressure cookers…I certainly love the idea of getting healthy meals to the table more quickly…This is a terrific giveaway!
owatz (AT) telus (DOT) net
First off – woot! to a Canuck only giveaway! And wow, am I so glad to hear I’m not the only one who doesn’t cook rice for dinner becaue of how long it takes! I’d love to give it a go in a pressure cooker!
Hey! Finally another Canadian blogger!!
That pressure cooker looks so cool, and I’m always game to try new kitchen gadgets.
While the giveaways are on, feel free to come by my blog-there’s a Canadian living magazine subscription up for grabs, AND some Fandango movie bucks.
Have a great week!
notesfromthecookiejar(at)yahoo(dot)ca
Heck yes! Of COURSE I’m interested! I would love to try out the pressure cooker! Thanks for the giveaway.
Now that is a fancy dancy pressure cooker. We have an old one that SCARES ME TO DEATH. It rattles and steams and FREAKS ME OUT.
That pressure cooker looks like heaven! Mmm so does that desert!
Count me in. I am Canadian.
I’m not Canadian, but if I win I would gladly pay shipping. I’ve never managed to cook brown rice period, much less in 12 minutes!
Very cool! I’d love to cook more, and this would definitely help!
I am most interested. Finally a chance to use those cook books I bought at all of last summer’s yard sales.
Oooohhhh… Enter me, pleeeeze!
Because, whereas the strawberries in your dessert would catapult me into anaphylactic shock, the (most excellent)12-minute rice would NOT!
xo CGF
Wah! I would love the chance to win a fancy appliance!
I hope it goes to a good home. And that dessert! And the rice! Wow…
Wow, 12 minute brown rice! I’d love to try that.
I’m baaaaack. Count me in, I am sure I could learn to make speedy rice just like you.
I’m baaaaack. Count me in, I am sure I could learn to make speedy rice just like you.
I am beyond interested! *crosses fingers*
Oh my. This is the best giveaway! Thank you.
Jennifer
pavier@telus.net
I have always liked the “thought” of brown rice for dinner, but most of the time I don’t have the pre-planning ability to get it on the table (due to the fact that most of my brain seems to have been sucked out when I gave birth!). Sign me up for a chance at the pressure cooker… a contest for Canadians… another reason to be proud to be one!
Woohoo – anything to make healthy meals fast sounds good to me! And I bought the brownie mix and have a ‘do not touch’ label on the strawberries in the fridge. I don’t know if my ‘pizza’ will look as wonderful as yours, but I’m going to give it a try! Thanks for the great ideas.
I”m Canadian! pick me!! lol
I love your daughters comments! lol that it too cute!
I’d love to win one! 🙂
A pressure cooker always seemed a formidable kitchen tool however I was raised with many cautionary tales about pressure cookers exploding and whatever else they do ..
However I have over time been reconsidering my lack of fortitude with respect to tackling new.. for me and old for others .. kitchen aids and I would pleased to ‘win’ one to use in our old farmhouse where we cook brown rice and other delightful root vegetables.
That child is destined for some career that requires good taste .. a chef perhaps?
Fabulous looking dessert..
Good luck to everyone…
Yeah for pressure cookers!!!!!! My mom used to make this great stew in half the time with our old pressure cooker. So enter me in the contest,please! (and yeah, I a Canadian girl, in Canada!)
Oh, oh! My poor family sadly lacks for anything that requires long, slow cooking, so a pressure cooker would be a saving grace. You could single-handidly improve the dietary consumption of my boys (do I sound desperate enough yet?).
And if you can believe it, my son would pick off all the fruit from the top of your dessert and leave the gooey brownie crust for the dog (or mummy)! His preference works well for both of us!
Your dessert looks fabulous!
Well my kids have never bought their own rice :), but we do have a rule that if they want to purchase something at the grocery store that I don’t want to buy, but they really want to have it (stuff that usually falls into the category of junk food like pizza rolls) – they can use their own money to buy it.
I love rice – all kinds. Get some black rice to try…
OMG that is a beautiful pressure cooker. One more reason to be glad I’m a Canadian! I’m in; thanks for putting together this Canadian contest. 🙂
I’m definitely interested – it would be so nice to be able to cook things more quickly, and, even more importantly for me, to have a way to cook rice in the summer which wouldn’t involve burning it (we have a wood stove in the winter which works fine, but we only have propane in the summer).
It’s nice to see a draw for Canadians, too.
A contest just for Canadians!!!! Hip hip hooray! I’m just learning about pressure cookers and I would love to win one so I can make brown rice only 12 minutes before it’s time to eat.
And the dessert? Really cute. My kids would love that.
Oh BLISS! a contest just for us Canadians? and such a frabjous prize? oh bliss oh bliss oh bliss!
I LOVE brown rice, too, but so often forget to put it on. sigh. And, my SIL tells me that there are so many kewl things that you can cook so quickly with it….
like I said before: Bliss bliss bliss!
thank you!
Awesome giveaway. Wish I lived in Canada! Good luck to everyone else!
Am interested! And, will be making that yuuuuummmm pizza tomorrow, although I’ll have to sub the strawberries, since they’re pretty much done now.
long time reader – first time post’er. What are the chances of getting audio of poor ol’hubby singing a dittie? If not, please enter me in the draw! Does the winner get dinner cooked for them mmmh white rice?
Well, since most of the drawings are US only, I will not begrudge this Canada only one. Yummy looking summer dessert!
ok so i’m new at the sahm thing..and i have a baby and keep 3 other kids…..SOOOO i’m ALL ABOUT some EASY and FAST cooking!!!!!!! You are making me drool all over myself with that brownie pizza you got there too!….NOW i’m going to have to get me some chocolate!
tweety0166 (at) aol (dot) com
Yay, for the pressure cooker and yay for that dessert, too. Are strawberries still running at the farm? Alas, I checked my freezer tonight and I am filled with dread…not as many as I thought. I was hoping to put up some more jam soon. Doh!
Pick me! I love appliances!!
I’d love a pressure cooker. I used to have one years ago, but not as fancy as this one. I was always afraid it would blow up in my face, but I’m a lttle braver now and this one looks safer.
Me me me….pick me.
Yeahhh ! Finally something for the canadians!
Darn you Canadians with your free healthcare and free pressure cookers. Sigh. 😉
I’m trying more and more of these gluten-free recipes. Some are quite good!!
You’ve got to love a contest that’s only Canadians, so many times it’s the other way!
Oh I soooo want to win this!! I have an old 4qt pressure cooker put out by Presto, many, many years ago. I know that this one has got to be so much safer to use. Please pick me!!!
Oooh. I want one. Of those brownie pizzas AND an electronic pressure cooker. Even though I’m deathly afraid of pressure cookers because my mother insists they are ticking time bombs that could ricochet across the room at a moment’s notice.
My mother watches a lot of Looney Tunes cartoons, I fear.
I don’t make wild rice around my husband as he feels compelled to explain over and over again that wild rice is not in the same genus as REAL rice, and while both are grasses blah blah blah. EAT YOUR CARBS AND SHUT UP ABOUT IT.
Now I have to get back to frantically cleaning the house in anticipation of my in-laws visit.
Pick me, Pick me!!!! Oh, one more thing…..
PICK ME!!!!
Of course I don’t have any room in my kitchen for another appliance, but enter me anyway, Please, because it’s fun to think I MIGHT win something. Thanks.
I am really interested in this pressure cooker as I am trying to eat/make healthy meals. What a great contest..thanks!
And what if I can provide you with a Canadian shipping address? I mean, I AM Canadian…I’m just not fortunate enough to live there right now….
In other news, if you soak brown rice in water all afternoon, you can cut the cooking time by almost half.
Enter me!! Enter Me!! I’m Canadian. Did I say PLEASE? and Thank You too!
OMG that would be so awesome around here-two working parents hardly have time to make pasta, and if I have to use the crock pot one.more.time. I shall cry.
And I’d also cry if you wouldn’t let me eat that dessert but let me look at it. 🙂
At this very moment I regret not living in Canada.
And that’s one yummy looking dessert! Me, I’m still plugging along with Betty Crocker mix brownies. 🙂
Ha. Misterpie gets to choose the white rice because he does the cooking around here. And would prolly love a shiny new appliance! How many good wife points would I get for THAT?
Yum!!! That dessert looks even better than the picture on the recipe!!!
AWWWwwww, I wanted to win that! Good luck to all the Canada folks!
Brown rice in 12 minutes…makes me want to get one of my own. Until I remember I have nowhere to put it and it would have to hide in the basement with the juicer and the food processor and the electric skill and the rest.
(V. sad btw, what with the Canada-Only giveaway and all, but I will surely get over it.)
I cannot play the pressure cooker game because I am not a Canadian, which means I have much warmer winters :0
But … I do have to tell you that I have an OOOOLD Fashioned pressure cooker. There are no buttons to push and no cords to plug in. It is going on at least 40 years old. It was my uncle’s, and when he died in 1983, it became mine. Yay!!! I have to put it on the stove and then listen to that cozy, memory-inducing psssssssst of the little thingamajig on the top.
I love it. But I have never tried rice and so now … I will. I have the same plan ahead problem as you do, except not the small children to use as an excuse.
Great looking dessert too. Love that Baby.
I love brown rice but never cook it because I never seem to have time. So this would be the perfect gift to myself! Thanks
PS I is the recipe for that brownie pizza anywhere…it looks so good I want to eat my computer screen right now.
I’ve been trying to cook more often, I think a pressure cooker would definitely help out.
Oh I am PRAYING I win this one!!! Of all the bloggy giveaways, this one would be the most useful for our family!! I do the same thing with brown rice, I always forget. Try doing Quinoa in it too, takes like 1 minute (or so I’ve heard!).
Thanks for the giveaway!
OOH! Enter me! Enter me! And that dessert does look great. Your family is awfully lucky to have you!
No way! A pressure cooker??? You’re giving away a pressure cooker? How great are you? I’d love one!!! Now, if I can just stop punctuating, I’ll let you know I’d love to be entered. Thank you!!!
themommyspot(at)gmail(dot)com
Brown rice in 12 minutes? Now that’s a record! I hope I win!
I’m interested AND Canadian! Woo hoo! I have no idea what to do with a pressure cooker (except 12 minute rice), but I’m certain I neeeed one.
I love that your girl wants to spend her allowance on rice. I don’t think that would ever cross my girl’s mind!
Oh Beck, thanks for the heads up on the contest. I would totally love to win that thing. But I will still love you if I don’t 🙂 So please, count me in!
OMG. Seriously. The anticipation of possibly winning this is killing me!
Crossing my fingers!
Lori
loriclendenen (at) hotmail (dot) com
P.s. I’m adding you to my reader!
healthy, yummy dinners fast? This is perfect for me!
If I move to Canada RIGHT NOW can I enter to win?
That dessert looks so good my mouth is watering!
oh beck. that dessert. to die for!
Hey, I’m Canadian! And I’m under a lot of pressure to cook these days. Hopefully terrible jokes don’t disqualify me from the draw because I would like to be entered please.
I’m not from there, but I’ll pay the shipping! Please let me enter. I adore brown rice and would really adore it cooked quickly. 😉
I guess I’m not qualified for the give away since I’m a bit too far south but I must say I am not really interested in getting one of those pressure cookers . . . if only I had somewhere to put it in my kitchen!
Omigod, that pressure cooker would save my life. Do you know how many times I have tried to make a nice healthy family dinner, and we’re waiting for the damn brown rice to cook?? Please, oh please can I win it? My family will thank you.
Oops! I just noticed that it is for Canadians only. Sorry about that. I guess you better scratch me from the list. 🙁
Wow! This looks so much easier than my old pressure cooker–not to mention safer! I haven’t used my old clunker in forever because I am a little afraid of it blowing up. This looks awesome! Count me in. 🙂
Well, I am not Canadian, but I wish I was today because the pressure cooker sounds like so much fun!
I would love to have a pressure cooker
This would be a GREAT prize for me to win. You’ll have to check out my very first blog post to understand the *real* reason why. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Be sure to check out my giveaway too:
http://birth2remember.blogspot.com
I almost always make brown rice and try to market it to these kids by saying, ‘It has a lovely, chewy, nutty flavour.’ D. responds with horror, ‘But I’m ALLERGIC to nuts!’ and then looks like I’m trying to kill him. Relax kid.
ok two things:
1. That desert, you deserve a prize (and if it really is easy, don’t tell my family when I serve it to them 😉 )
2. I never coveted a pressure cooker till today. OMG. My rice steamer takes an hour for brown rice… HMMM PRESSURE COOKER.
I seriously NEED some of that dessert right now.
Steph
Oh this looks yummy and has fruit too! I just might try it.
Oh this looks yummy and has fruit too! I just might try it.
I made a similar recipe last year and my brownie melted all over the sides of the pan, dripping into the bottom of my oven. It was a thin (crunch, very crunchy) crust dessert pizza, but still pretty good.
Now I love you even more because my grandmother had rose plates like those and I just adore them.
I’ve made that brownie pizza before, but mine didn’t turn out nearly as pretty as yours.
now I’m very hungry.. both those dishes are beautiful and look super yummy too!