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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I am getting hungry just writing about it. This is one of my favorite pressure cooker recipies. More than just a delicious and hearty combination of ingredients, stew brings back memories of family and my childhood. There we were standing in line next to the stove, bowl in hand, eagerly awaiting mother’s declaration that it’s ready. Outside snow drifts against the doorway and we hope, we pray, that the wind keeps blowing and the snow keeps falling, piling, drifting just deep enough to cancel school in the morning….
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