It was all stainless steel, not aluminum, those were thought to cause Alzheimer's, oddly enough the woman had had dementia when she passed. And so when she asked me what I wanted all those years ago, I had said that I wanted a stainless steel one, way back then!
Even then the stove-top ones were expensive, but I did not know, and she did get me one.
In all the years I knew her it was one of the few things that I did ever asked her for.
After all, she did ask.
So now that one is a goner, but what can anyone do with a broken pressure cooker these days...putting it out in your garbage might bring a SWAT team to your home???
I know, not funny, at all!
But a possibility of being true.
Even in a recycling bin.
Hubby came up with a reuse idea for the pond fish food, even without its perfect seal, our smarty rat more than likely will not be able to open it, one can only hope.
So that is its new designation, pond fish food storage in the garage!
And now after all was said and done... I wanted my very useful kitchen tool back, but a new and improved one!
I have had a pressure cooker for as long as I can remember! As a married woman, great meals and soups have come from them!
So now was the dilemma of what to get to replace it, this very useful implement of the kitchen variety that both Hubby and I enjoyed using.
Since the olden days, so many are available these days, stovetop and electric.
We both agreed that now that we had to shop it. I suggested we would go to America's Test Kitchens site and see which ones they recommend. Their show has been on PBS for decades, with cooking too, of course!
Hubby and I decided that we would like to try the new-fangled electric ones that had a few tricks up their sleeves, make that in their components. Thirteen different ones were tested by the people at America's Test Kitchens, and they did like the Instant Pot brand and eval model.
I did not realize that all the different models of the same brand had been tested amongst the many being evaluated.
Ours that we did eventually buy a 6-quart DUO CRISP + AIR FRYER 11-IN-1 meaning a Pressure Cooker, air fry, roast, bake, saute, and more! It does also dehydrate, broil, slow- cooks, steams, Keeps food warm, and Sous Vide. Sous Vide, in Francais, means a method of cooking food, especially meat or fish, by vacuuming sealing, and immersing in warm water. (For those of us who did not know!)
And for all that the cost is quite dear, $120! It came from Walmart same-day free delivery! But if it does do it all, it's worth it, hmm?
We, in fact, never did get ourselves a fiftieth wedding anniversary gift, so there it is! LOL... we had hoped to go to Hawaii by then. I mean after fifty years that was what I thought anyway... PANDEMIC changes things, health, and finances too.
Although, like many, we did receive those government helpful payments, yes, we qualified and not prorated. So why not a couple of items that are a bit more than we usually would get, hmm? Most all of the monies are saved for those scary possibilities. And we all know those things can happen way too often, better to be safe than sorry!
And so we must go for now...
I am called Aussie, because my Mom asked a sixteen-year-old girl, who had been looking at me, in the crate at the adoption site that day what she thought I should be named. And without hesitation, the teenager had said, Aussie! She was just looking, by the way,... so Mom did not steal me from her.
We never did find out the girl's name, and Mom liked the name Aussie too. We have since found out that it is a very common name, but it is still just right for me! My parents think that I am uncommon though,...some might say even unique! I do like that.
I am an Australian Shepherd. Here is an interesting factoid, I was supposed to be a miniature Australian Shepherd, but...as you might know, I AM NOT! Although I am now three years old, so I am the baby, though tipping the scales around seventy pounds, HA! I must admit, a very big one!
I was three months old when Mommy and Daddy adopted me. I had been taken out of a hoarder's home in the Carolinas with my litter. Below is my new PIC that had been taken on the birthday that I share with my Dad, but Dad is much, much older than me!!! I was the first to be adopted, February 16, 2018, his brother's birthday.
Please don't forget me, I am Chance, pictured above, a Bichon Frise! I am six years old, so they think, and the eldest, and I like getting up early with Mom and Aussie. Bella sleeps in with Dad, till after seven most days, even later! I enjoy a good tug-of-war on the ropes that Dad had twisted for Aussie and me, and sometimes even Bella plays too! I was the last to be adopted, on January 23, 2020.
I was wandering the neighborhood for days and then saw Aussie and Bella in their living room window so I hung out there... The Animal Welfare League checked me out and kept me for sixteen days until I was allowed to be adopted. Good evening?
Now my name of Chance is because I was given another chance, it could be only the second one or perhaps more... The animal control lady came out to see if I had a chip with her machine, and Dad told her that he wanted to name me Chance. His reason being, that if no one claimed me, I want to give him a second chance! So that is how I got the name Chance!
Easy as Aussie, Bella, Chance, now you got it!
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