I'm sure you'll love your new toy. Four quarts sounds small after having an 8 quart ... but then I'm cooking for more, plus we like leftovers for the next day ... but DD gets angry if I try to leave it out on the counter, because it's quite large and heavy. I'm having fun with mine. It doesn't seem right that things should cook so fast and trouble-free!
(Although you have to allow for prep time and steam heat up time.) Did you get one with an oval shape and removeable teflon pot? I LOVE those two features - lots easier to fit foods in and clean up.
I am so disappointed in the joke of a 'recipe book' that came with mine, but I went online to get a few recipes. When I find the most useful pressure cooker recipe book, I'll look to buy it. (I'll also have to check and see if Costco has a nice book.) Here's one site I found last night ... and the second link has a time chart for meats and one for veggies that is handy.
http://www.recipezaar.com/browse/0100E5 http://missvickie.com/howto/howtoframe.html on the left, click on 'Cooking Time Charts' ... then at the top of the next page, click on 'Meats, Poulty and Seafood Cooking Times' and/or 'Vegetable Cooking Time Charts'.
And don't forget your local library for books you can try out. Our library is online, so I was able to search by title "Pressure Cooker" ... then I chose only the very newest books (2002 or 2003) because these programmable pressure cookers are fairly new.
Oh, and btw, I've read that you're not supposed to 'pressure fry' with these pressure cookers, although some people say they have done it with success. (This is for trying to make like the KFC chicken recipe, using oil to fry under pressure.)
I do have some older pressure cooker recipes (Word document) that you can convert to your pressure cooker using common sense. (For instance, if the recipe says 'use cold water release', you wouldn't do that ... you would simply do the quick release by pushing the button to release the steam in order to get it to unlock.) If you're interested, p.m. me with your email address and I can send it to you.
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