An E-Cookbook Giveaway

My mom always used a pressure cooker so I tend to see it in only in terms of tough meat cuts and stews. I'm curious how it could be used to help me now. I'll have to do some reading. You asked for favorite vegetables? Well...my new love is leeks. I had no idea they were so easy. The kids tend to dislike onions and I find that if I add leeks to stir-fries it gives onion flavor without being overwhelming. Chinese cabbage is another good one. You can toss it in anything and it holds its shape and seems to compliment everything. Of course my old faves are still good. There's nothing as good as lightly steamed broccoli or green beans eaten with your fingers as soon as they're cool enough to handle!

Wow, it sounds like a wonderful book..even if I don't win I need to pick it up. There are so many wonderful veggies, but my favorite are: tomatoes..though really a fruit, but hey they are just great Swiss chard Kale spinach brocolli peas...love fresh peas string beans..and the list could go on and on.. my least favorite, but hoping to change that is cabbage

Great blog and wonderful give away

Kimberly

I am loving my KR Duromatic pressure cooker, too (thanks to Renee). I might even consider purchasing a smaller one for when I want to make two dishes at once. Nothing I have made didn't turn out well, but there's plenty of room for me to tweak and learn. I think Jill is great. She is also very accessible on Facebook. I would love to win her ecookbook. I have been using the Lorna Sass veg cookbook and love her, too. All of the recipes I have tried in her book are bursting with flavor!

I love all veggies, but some favorites are broccoli and kale. Thanks for this opportunity!

I have a pressure cooker and I have never used it :). This book sounds like the perfect thing for me to finally step into the land of pressure cooking!! Thanks for the giveaway!

My favorite veggies are cucumbers and spinach. Yum! This book looks wonderful!

I eat a lot of veggies, but my favorite is simply carrots. I'd love to say something more...exotic like kohlrabi, but it's carrots.
I have a pressure cooker that was part of my husband's dowry, but I have never used it. I cooked in my huge pressure canner cooker once. That wasn't great. I'd love to win this and get cooking'

i love veggies so much, don't think i can choose a favorite... this books sound great. i am actually looking to get a pressure cooker these days so i'm sure this can be a lot of help for me.

My father insisted that I have a pressure cooker. I politely turned him down numerous times, and then he just bought me one anyway. It sat untouched for quite some time. I found it completely intimidating. I finally worked up the nerve to try it twice. It was okay, but obviously need guidance! (I was super-psyched when I heard you were going to be demonstrating on 30 Day Vegan!!!) So, I would LOVE to win this e-book. My fave veggie is the sweet potato. There is just no wrong way to fix a sweet potato!

Thanks!

I also have a KR Duromatic and love it. I refer a lot to "Great Vegetarian Cooking Under Pressure," which includes tons of basic info, charts for grains, veggies and beans, and awesome recipes, many vegan or easy to adapt.

My favorite veggie? I am a brussel sprout and asparagus girl, but I rarely meet a veggie I don't like. Thanks for offering. I would absolutely love to add this book to my tool box.

We live in Colombia where every family, no matter how simple, has a pressure cooker. At first I balked at getting one, because I'd never used one before. But after cooking a pot of soaked beans for five hours and still not finding them soft enough, I finally saw the light. (We live at altitude as well, which makes cooking times even longer.) We're still just learning how to use it, but it has already transformed the way we cook brown rice, beets, and legumes. I still feel like a newbie, however, and would love to know more!

Favorite vegetable? Fresh peas, straight from the pod, are hard to beat.

I LOVED your video and all of the tips. I've been reading more about pressure cookers lately, but you have converted me. I'm going to get one!

I love fresh garden tomatoes, but they have ruined me for the grocery store tomatoes. I also love carrots, zucchini and squash. I got some great "rainbow" carrot seeds from an etsy shop, and my kids love digging them up to see which color they get.

I've been thinking about getting a pressure cooker. We eat a lot of beans, and it would be nice if they took less than a day to cook :-) My favorite veg...hmmm...i don't think there is any vegetable that I don't like. But, top of my list are the dark leafy greens, kale, swiss chard, spinach (for the brief season it is here), tomatoes (although I guess a fruit) are probably the other veg i eat the most, and love all different ways. Actually, I don't think there is a vegetable that I don't like. :-)

I have NEVER used a pressure cooker but just perusing this blog makes me curious & interested.....of course that's no surprise w/all things foodie & healthy in nature :) & favorite summer veggies? Well I was elated the other day to find a yellow squash - the equivalent of zucchini - in the grocery store the other day when I was looking for vegetables for a thai salad. (my own version) So I'd say, possibly cause I find it more rare to locate that I love yellow squash. But who can forget homegrown tomatoes too?? The flavours just don't compare at all to store-bought ones. So that's my thoughts for now :)

I love zucchini and yellow squash in the summer. They are such versatile veggies.

I've never used a pressure cooker. I sure would like to try though. Your video at 30 Day Vegan was well done and intriguing. I'm interested in learning more about using this piece of equipment. I might even invest in one for our family! Thanks Renee.

I remember my sister-in-law always cooking with a slow cooker when she had kids to feed but I admit to being a little bit afraid of them! I have not been very good at planning our meals ahead of time, though, so I have been thinking a pressure cooker might help with the time issue (especially with beans). It's hard to pick a favourite veggie. Probably broccoli (aka Superfood around our house), but I love corn (especially at this time of year!), zucchini, squash, peas, etc. etc.!

Oh, this book would be wonderful to take out the mystery of it all for me. New to the whole bean cooking world and would love a new resource to make it easier!

Renee, thanks so much for that wonderful video. I'm enjoying your presence on 30 day vegan and really think I may get a pressure cooker. I love tomatoes, kale, green beans, and brussell sprouts. I would love to win the ebook.

First, let me say, your photos are exceptional! Wow!

Second, thanks for the cookbook!

Third, thanks for this post. I have a pressure cooker that was given to me as a gift and I have always wanted to cook beans and rice in it but I wasn't sure how to do it exactly. I've only ever used a pressure cooker for sterilizing media used to grow bacteria! Hahah.

Cheers!

I was so excited, I forgot to tell you my favorite veggies...

I think I need to go with sweet corn and delicata squash. Mmmmmm!

There are so many . . . fresh lettuce, tomatoes, corn! Great giveaway. Thanks!

I'm not a pressure cooker cook, but I'd like to start. You've convinced me. :D

My favorite veggie is a nice fresh tomato. I eat them with everything. You're right, though, it's hard to decide!

In summertime, it is almost unfair to ask, but since my kids only eat green beans or broccoli, they are no longer my favs. I will have to say, corn! Thanks for the chance to win.

I love fresh tomatos from our garden and cucumbers and peas!! Thank you for the opportunity!

I saw your video on 30 Day vegan, and it helped me get the courage to break out my pressure cooker again. I'd love to win this e-book! My favorite vegetables are fresh tomatoes straight from the garden, warmed by the sun. :)

Pressure cooker cook book! Sounds great and so helpful. I love mine, and have really been using it more and more. It makes it so simple and fast to cook beans and legumes. Favorite veggies? hmmm.....right now I'm doing a lot of green smoothies so Kale is a good one, along with spinach. I'm hoping to grow a "greens garden" this fall and those both will be featured. :)

I love this. I think my favorite vegetables have to be beans ( dried, shelling, and snap, don't forget Romano). I love so many veggies, that it is excrutiating to just choose one or two. I guess for lucky number two I will say raw carrots, since I snack on them all day at work.

We have 4 pressure cookers, 3 stove top and one electric. And they get used a lot. Most liked vegetable would be the tomato for all it's components (juice, dried, canned, paste, whole, sliced, etc.) and it's many varieties and flavor variations.

Hi Renee! Popping over from Heather's blog. Loved the video - it does indeed look less scary than my grandmother's. I was so afraid of that pot! I cook beans from scratch and am used to the time it takes me. But I'm always excited to try new things, so I'd love to win a copy! My favorite veggies are cucumbers and tomatoes (right now. Tomorrow I might say something different!) Thanks for an awesome video tutorial!

how I'd love to give this a read, thanks for the chance fav veggies - right now cucumbers straight from the green house, so delicous and always love a sweet potato, oh and then theres butternut squash and courgettes and ... mmm am thinking maybe it would have been better to tell you what I don't like .. haha xx

Renee, I have a pressure cooker that I bought several years ago but I have always been afraid to use it, your video and info on Heather's 30 Day Vegan Workshop have given me the gumption to get it out again and use it this weekend! Thanks so much and I am really enjoying the workshop with you two!

Oh my what a decision. I guess I would say fresh picked sugar snap peas! Thanks for sharing the e-book information.

My favorite vegetables are kale, spinach and mushrooms. I love adding these to many different dishes, including stir fries, and pilafs made with quinoa or rice. I use my pressure cooker often to prepare them as well, and would love a copy of this cookbook....thanks!

I just love veggies! Corn, tomatoes, bell peppers are top on that list. I am a big squash fan too - yummo!

I have always used a pressure cooker, but have pretty much limited it to cooking dried beans. I would love to expand on its use. Not having to spend hours in the kitchen, or heat it up for hours would be a blessing for sure. One of my favorite things to cook is blackeye peas. I recently tried them with kale and they were great. Summer veggies are the BEST--where do I begin...vine ripened tomatoes, eggplants, bell peppers, okra, everything at the farmer's market!....oh, almost forgot corn on the cob! I'd love the book!

My family is mostly vegetarian and have been for years. I would love to try out a pressure cooker and diversify my meals, as my kids are complaining. Also, I'm a busy teacher and I sometimes don't finish school until 5:30pm and from what I read, pressure cooking can really speed up food prep. We eat all kinds of veggies - red peppers, zucchini, eggplant, mushrooms, broccoli, asparagus, cauliflower. I also make spaghetti squash in the summer and acorn squash in the winter. Also regular and sweet potatoes. I guess anything goes.

I don't have a pressure cooker but I like the idea of quick soups so perhaps this book will make me buy one.

My favourite vegetable is asparagus for the short time it is in season, also broccoli, cauliflower and leeks.

I'm a "newbie" too, at pressure cooking. And I'm loving it! I often cook for 15 people for a straight ten days so I bought a large cooker. I would love a vegan cookbook! I actually fed a team from Denver an almost vegan meal last night... TVP and Tofu Ma Po Lettuce wraps... Not that you need a pressure cooker for that!

As far as veggies go... we can get everything here in Costa Rica at such a low price! Camotes, pejiballes, yucca, and all of the regular veggies. We can't get good corn on the cob, kale, collards or turnip, however, and when I go to Maine, I always fill up on those!

Thanks for the opportunity to get this book, Renee!

Kohlrabi! It is my newly discovered favorite, of course neck in neck with fresh from the vine tomatoes and zucchini! I have been eyeing a pressure cooker since taking the spring version of 30 day vegan. What a great resource this would be!

Funny you should post this today because I was just thinking about pressure cookers and whether that's something worth investing in for our family. You pretty much have me sold just from this post! I'd love to win the e-book.

So many veggies to choose from, but right now I am in love with an orange pepper I bought at the farmers market last night.

Thanks for hosting the giveaway!

JUST about to order a pressure cooker right now, and would love to learn to use it with this book!

oh man, I love so many! Onions, yams, carrots, turnips, celery, all kinds of greens, legumes, broccoli, leeks, fennel, asparagus, artichokes, peas, zucchini, winter squash... I could go on and on!

asparagus - I grow it our garden and I can't get enough of it.

I love pressure cooking, and use my pressure cooker everyday. I love all vegetables - two are too few to name! Okra, spinach, cabbage, cauliflower, eggplant, etc. are a few that I cook with every week. I make lentil stew, black bean soup, various curries, rice dishes, and other grain pilafs in my pressure cooker. Your book sounds very interesting....would love to have it :-)

Register a "me too" for having a Kuhn Rikon Duromatic and loving it.

As for favorite vegetable -- that's a difficult choice. It would probably be easier to mention those I don't care for, though there really aren't any though I like some better than others. I was the kid growing up, who when offered dessert after supper often said "no thanks" and just had another serving of vegetables. I know, I know, what a strange child I was :-).

I guess I'd have to say that my favorite veggie is artichoke hearts.

Hi Renee, great video, I was looking forward to it. Ever since you posted about your pressure cooker in your favorite kitchen items post, I've been thinking about getting one, just afraid I don't know what to do with it. Cooking beans would be lovely, and as you said so much cheaper. My favorite vegetable, hard question: fresh tomatoes, beans, asparagus, corn, beets.....ahhh, I love them all!

I don't have a pressure cooker but want to get one. Then I get intimidated since I don't know how to use it and put the idea off for a while. A book like this sounds like the right tool to get started! Favorite veggies: Fresh green beans, peas, spinach and roasted brussels sprouts!

I know I will never reach the potential for using beans in our diet (and budget) until I have a pressure cooker... but I have been so afraid to try one! Perhaps this ebook could be my tutor and I could finally take the plunge! Fav summer veggies: yellow beans... with butter. :) So I don't grow that many of them!

I love using our two pressure cookers. They are the ultimate in cooked 'fast food'.

Right now, my favorite vegetable is globe artichoke cooked in the pressure cooker, of course.:)

I've never used a pressure cooker before and hesitated to purchase one. I think I'm ready to take the plunge now. I can't tell you how many times I forgot to do the overnight soak and didn't have an hour to wait for a quick soak. I would love to have Jill's book. My favorite veggies are spinach and sugar snap peas.

So, it is not too hard to control how soft the veggies cook? They can come out a little crisp (not mushy)?

I don't know that I have a favorite but generally crave green things: baby bok choy, kale, spinach, swiss chard, romaine...

I haven't used a pressure cooker, but after listening to your experience with one, I'm definitely interested. Thanks for a chance to win the e-book!

As for your question, my favorite summer veggies are: green beans bell peppers cukes tomatoes and always avocado

What a great giveaway! My Grandma gave me a pressure cooker recently and I have been trying to figure out what is best cooked in it. This would be such a great resource to have...especially since it is an ebook. Thanks for the chance to win:)

Would LOVE to win this cookbook. Favorite veggies are sweet potatoes and acorn squash.

I have only used a pressure cooker for home canning so far, I think I would love to get a smaller one to cook foods in for our family. This book sounds so interesting!! My favorite vegetables are summer squash, zucchini, okra, tomatoes (but only 2 kinds and one of those is an heirloom variety), cabbage, green beans (which is producing like crazy in my garden right now!), carrots, lettuce and potatoes. Summer is my favorite time of year because I LOVE growing my own fresh vegetables and eating them freshly picked. Thanks for the giveaway!

Pressure cookers are a must in our family, but for some reason we only use them for cooking meat or corn on the cobs!I would love to learn how to cook beans and brown rice using my pressure cooker. Our favorite veggies -other than the common salad ingredients- are: broccoli, asparagus, beets, carrots, eggplants. I had the honor and pleasure to take the first 30-day vegan workshop offered by gorgeous Heather. That's actually how I got hooked on your blog Renee!

thank you so much for the opportunity. This e-book sounds exactly what I need. I have only just bought our pressure cooker this week and would dearly love to learn how to use it to it's full potential. My favourite vegetables are broccoli and asparagus. I can't get enough of either of them.

Great video, Renee. You should do more of these. You're a natural. I have a pressure cooker. I guess I'm still intimidated and holding onto that "this thing is going to explode" old school mentality. I know it would make my life so much easier.

There are so many veggies that I love. I love the summer squashes, juicy tomatoes, and cucumbers I pick from my garden. There are so many more; it's hard to pick just one.

Thanks for the giveaway!

I don't have a pressure cooker and my family never used one, but your post and all of these comments have me very very curious. If this cookbook will tell me how to buy and use one, I want it!

Favorite veggies: raw or roasted broccoli, snow peas, mushrooms, and sweet potatoes (love love love baked sweet potato fries).

Woa! You have me convinced! I have been thinking about getting a pressure cooker for a while- we buy dry beans but have a hard time getting them cooked so that we can use them. And then we always end up cooking way more that we actually need and condemn ourselves to endless days of eating one pot of beans- which leads me at least to serious bean-fatigue. Even thought I really do like burritos- right now I feel like I don't want to eat another bean burrito ever again. Having a pressure cooker and excellent recipes to go along with it- seems like the perfect solution- making up whole meals in the cooker- not just the bean part. A friend of mine has also started making her own canned beans (using a pressure canner) and this seems like the ultimate convenience food. I hope I win the prize- one of my hesitations in purchasing a cooker was trying to figure out what kind to get. I am excitd to hear that the book includes advice on this topic.

MY favorite veg? It's so hard to choose at the moment with everything fruiting- it's all so good! Right now I am especially enjoying cucumbers and tomatoes, green beans, fresh sweet onions, beets, corn.

I hope I win! I am looking forward to waving my days of buying canned beans with a cupboard full of dry beans good-bye!

Thanks for the give-away!

Purple Cherokee tomatoes! Hands down! Zucchini is the runner up.

Hi Renee, at the moment my favourite vegies are silverbeet and kumara but that will change with the season, in a few weeks it will be asparagus and then summer veg. Please put me in the draw and if my name comes out and if you can't send to Australia, would you send the book to the other Rose in Heather's course? Thank you!

I love greens! Collard, mustard, turnip...you name it, yum! Thanks for the giveaway!

I, too, own a pressure cooker, but have only used it once, with no success! I know that if used properly, it could save me LOADS of time in the kitchen! My favorite summer veggies include tomatoes, green beans, and corn (preferably eaten in the same meal!) Yum!

So hard to choose..... I love them all. Thanks so much for the video over at heather's and for the opportunity to win the ebook.

All veggies are great! I could never choose just one favorite, but beans are a staple for me. I also adore winter squashes, artichokes, mache, beets and English peas.

My favorite veggies ...

That's a hard one, because they are ALL so good. I LOVE artichokes (something I regularly cook in my pressure cooker) and asparagus. I love raw carrots but do not care for them cooked. Celery, tomatoes, corn on the cob ... I could go on and on, but I won't. ;)

Oh I have been wanting to begin cooking more with my pressure cooker! My Sister in law does all the time. As for my favorite vegetable? That is a tough one! I would say Tomatoes and Corn. There is nothing better than a sun ripened juicy drippy tomato :D

Renee, Thank you SO much for your cooking video over at 30 Day Vegan! I commented over there, too, to thank you for taking the fear out of using a pressure cooker. I can't wait to get one now! Also, Jill lives in my area and many years ago I took a local class she was teaching about cooking vegetables. At the time, I wasn't as committed to eating healthfully as I am now, so I have a renewed interested in what she has to teach, and am excited about the possibilities of using a pressure cooker to save time and energy while creating healthy food. Thanks again.....you should do more videos! :)

Favorite veggie-- I know tomato is classified as a fruit but can't I still call it my favorite vegetable?? Great give-away. Thanks for the opportunity.

Being vegetarian, we like all veggies. We grow a lot and are self-sufficient in garlic so that might make it our favorite on many levels. We have a pressure cooker and I love it. Thanks for the chance to win what looks like a great book!

One of my favorite veggies is cauliflower. I have a pressure cooker but have never used it because it seems difficult to use. It would be great to have an easy guide to using it.

I love garden fresh kohlrabi. It's so crunchy and fresh. This summer though we have none in the garden.. this year my favorite is parsnip. I'm loving 30 Day Vegan by the way:)

Pressure Cooking Scares Me!

I recently purchased a pressure cooker and am also trying to go vegan- all at the same time!! I love vegetables, all kinds, but especially asparagus, eggplant, broccoli rabe, and kale.

I NEED THE VEGGIE QUEEN's HELP!!!

( that's why I would love to win her e-book :) )

Thanks,

Loretta

My favorite vegetables are brussels sprouts (roasted), beets, asparagus, leeks, onions, tomatoes, corn and bell peppers.

This time of year, nothing competes with a fresh-picked heirloom tomato. I recently splurged on a 23-qt pressure canner and have made some excellent sauce with a rainbow selection of delicious tomatoes from my neighbor's garden - also a wonderful batch of curried ketchup. I inherited a standard pressure cooker a few years ago but don't use it very often. Might this finally be the magic tool for cooking creamy corona beans? Hope to have the opportunity to enjoy your advice and make better use of this resource - and make more things to share with my generous (vegetarian) neighbor. Thanks, Jill

Hi! Would love to have this book - we just started using our pressure cooker again to cook beans. I am enjoying zucchini this summer!

Our favorite veggies consist of Spinach, asparagus, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, squash, potatoes (white & sweet), pumpkin. We love LOTS of them though, really snap peas & green beans should be added....... Please count me in the E-cook book give-away. I have a pressure cooker that I was lucky enough to receive as a gift last Christmas. I need to use it MORE than I do! Thank you!