— Annette Moore

So the Instapot is wildly popular. I decide I need an instapot, and the instructions tell you that the first thing you should make in the Instapot is water. And I have the manual in my hand and my palms are sweaty, and I'm feeling as though I am landing a helicopter because they're a little technical in from my point of view. So I use it as pot for teaching classes, but found while teaching a class, it was just as easy to boil some water or to steam some vegetables or to do whatever. Then it was to put it in the Insta putt. However, I will tell you the best thing that I used it for, and that was to take a pound of your favorite whole wheat pasta, throw it in the vessel, a 32 ounce of your favorite low sodium, oil free pasta sauce, or one that you make your glen used to make a no oil pasta sauce. They no longer do that. So you put in 32 ounces of your pasta sauce and 32 ounces of water, and then you set it on 20 minutes. And miraculously the pasta would come out beautifully and delicious, and it tasted like homemade pasta. But every time I went to use it for someone else, I just wasn't into the technological aspect of using it. So what did I do? If any of you live in Connecticut and you are members of the Connecticut Plant-based group led by Katherine O'Rourke, if you ever see Katherine O'Rourke at an event using an Instapot, I gave it to Katherine O'Rourke. So I think that, um, um, they're totally up to you. I found flavors to be the same. I think cooking time was almost the same. And, um, I'm just not the best person Also about cooking vegetables. You know, one of the things that you might learn from the roasting vegetable assignment is that vegetables are best cooked when they're all the same size. So if you're going to throw in a bunch of vegetables at the same time, you don't you wanna put them, excuse me, on the, on the fast me, there's a fast button on there and you wanna put it on there for two or three minutes and then they will work for you. But I'm old school. I like to steam vegetables, I like to roast them in the oven, so I'm not too much help on that. But there is a recipe in today's reel, uh, for, pardon me, for a, an oil free lentil sloppy Joe recipe from Simply Quinoa. If you follow that website, fabulous recipes. And I make that in the crockpot. So I know that some of the Insta Potts do have a crockpot feature. Uh, we'll talk a little bit later about Jill Nuss. Now the registered dietician who calls herself Veggie Queen. I spoke to her last night and she does not use the crockpot feature on her Instapot, but she knows everything there is to know.

Oil-Free Lentil Sloppy Joe’s CROCKPOT RECIPE

Jill Nussinow, RD INSTAPOT EXPERT