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UK: Birmingham food market has a good range and is fairly cheap (not organic stuff, its commercial grower stuff trucked in from Poland/Holand/Warwickshire). Par

UK: Birmingham food market has a good range and is fairly cheap (not organic stuff, its commercial grower stuff trucked in from Poland/Holand/Warwickshire). Part of the fun is seeing everyone else (real slice of life stuff). I like to support this market and I like cooking, so box of ingredients would not be something I'd pay for. Some local organic growers have £5 boxes or £10 boxes they deliver to your house each week. These are bulk seasonable veg not prepared ingredients. I used to sort of like the 'ready steady cook' aspect of making meals out of what was in the box, but now I quite like the shopping aspect. Examples below... http://www.farm-fresh-organics.co.uk/ http://www.farm-fresh-organics.co.uk/ http://www.morefresh.co.uk/medium-vegetable-box-3-4-people-%C2%A3725 http://www.morefresh.co.uk/medium-vegetable-box-3-4-people-%... Pressure cooker: is this for beans? I've always gone for tinned beans on the basis that they are picked fresh in Turkey and industrially pressure-cooked in the tin. Am I wrong?

Mikeb85 11y ago
> is this for beans? Yes but not necessarily. You can cook a stew in a pressure cooker in under an hour, it's incredibly useful for cooking tough cuts of meat quickly. We make beef stews and curries at home all the time in the pressure cooker, to get the meat tender would normally take 3-4 hours, in the pressure cooker takes about 25 minutes. And we do use it for legumes as well (beans, dal, chickpeas for hummous, etc...).
devdas 11y ago
Pressure cookers are for pretty much anything you want to steam. Rice, legumes, vegetables, meat (stews, pilafs, biryani, etc). It saves a lot of cooking time.