What is a “Home-cooked meal”? Food fads may come and go, but pot roast never leaves. It is probably the very definition of home-cooked. Yankee pot roast - or a cut of beef browned to perfection and introducted to its vegetable companions part way through cooking - is an all-in-one-pot hearty meal. The first written reference of Pot Roast appeared in 1881, a natural evolution of the colonial-era New England Boiled Dinner. Once an appetizing way to cook inferior meat, or cuts from beasts that have been working animals rather than food animals, pot roast at its core represents simplicity, frugality, and sensibility.
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“Hot as hell’s brimstone” or “soup of the Devil”, the more priests warned against it, the more people wanted it. From the first chili cook-off in the abandoned mining town of Terlingua, Texas in 1967 to your kitchen next Tuesday night, this easy chili recipe cooked in your pressure cooker is yours to tweak to your heart’s content. Try it, tweak it, and share.
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