Well, the wife decided she was going to cook tonight. Its looking like country style steak and gravy with tatters.
I decided I was cooking tomorrow night in spite of this cold ass weather, Having the wife go to the butchers shop at the Piggly Wiggly to pick up some beef bone. I will be throwing the bone in the pressure cooker over night to make my base. Once that is done the bone comes out and in goes some beef and lots o veggies in to the pressure cooker to make some true homemade vegetable soup. Also a cake of homemade cornbread cooked in the oven in the wrought iron pan. Not none of that boxed sweet chit she calls cornbread.
My mother sent me an instant pot for Christmas. I am really loving this thing because it cuts off on its own. (fixes Ewok from burning down the house due to no memory!)
All I use on it is the pressure cooker and sometimes the searing option. The food comes out just like the old school pressure cookers that required the weights.
So far I have cooked a chuck shoulder, BBQ ribs, made some pintos using dried beans, Protabella mushroom soup, french onion beef stroganoff, Homemade Chili, Meatloaf and taters, Lemon Pepper chicken and tomorrow night homemade vegetable beef soup.
This thing is a God send. Cooking times are cut in half from the regular stove and oven, Ewok got some freedom back and can cook now with out having to worry about burning the house down, I can help the wife out, (bless her, she has now split the week with me so she can sleep while working) which gave me some of my dignity back! And, the food is so tender and has that what I call " Old School Country Flavor. But, more importantly, I can now quit having to eat out of a box or can all the time. I was starting to feel like a miniature horse with a food bag strapped to my face.
Oh, the one thing that did piss the wife off is, When she cooks most of the time there is left overs, when I cook everyone in the house cleans out the pot and she has noticed. Womens I swear! I told her I can not help her mom did not teach her how to cook unless it came from a box or a can but I would be happy to teach her. That was the way wrong thing to say.