Pressure Cooker Mesquite Ribs

Ingredients

  • 1 cup water
  • 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 4 pounds pork baby back ribs, cut into serving-size portions
  • 2 tablespoons mesquite seasoning
  • 3/4 cup barbecue sauce, divided

Directions

  • Combine water, vinegar and soy sauce in a 6-qt. electric pressure cooker. Rub ribs with mesquite seasoning; add to pressure cooker. Lock lid; close pressure-release valve. Adjust to pressure-cook on high for 35 minutes. Let pressure naturally release for 10 minutes, then quick-release any remaining pressure.
  • Remove ribs to a foil-lined baking sheet. Preheat broiler. Brush ribs with half the barbecue sauce. Broil 4-6 in. from heat until glazed. Brush with remaining barbecue sauce.

 

Hearty Hamburger Soup

Ingredients:

  • 1 pound ground beef
  • 4 cups water
  • 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
  • 3 medium carrots, sliced
  • 2 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed
  • 1 medium onion, chopped
  • 1/2 cup chopped celery
  • 4 teaspoons beef bouillon granules
  • 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper
  • 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 1 cup cut fresh or frozen green beans

Directions:

  • In a large saucepan, brown beef; drain. Add the next 10 ingredients; bring to a boil.
  • Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15 minutes or until potatoes and carrots are tender. Add green beans. Cover and simmer 15 minutes longer or until the beans are tender.

Baked Walleye and Vegetables

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Ingredients

  • 1 small onion, thinly sliced
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 2 small zucchini, julienned
  • 1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper
  • 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese, divided
  • 4 walleye fillets (about 6 ounces each)
  • 1 tablespoon butter, melted

Directions:

In a nonstick skillet, cook onion in oil over medium heat for about 2 minutes. Stir in zucchini and mushrooms; cook and stir 2 minutes longer. Sprinkle with pepper and garlic powder; stir in lemon juice. Cook and stir 30 seconds longer. Remove from heat; stir in 1 teaspoon cheese.  Place fillets in a 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish coated with cooking spray. Top each fillet with about 1/4 cup onion mixture. Drizzle with butter and sprinkle with remaining Parmesan cheese.

Bake, uncovered, at 375° for 18-22 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork.

Insta Pot Pot Roast

Pot Roast Receipe

Ingredients

Beef:

  • 3-5 lb beef chuck roast*
  • 1 tbsp kosher salt
  • 1 tbsp fresh cracked black pepper
  • 1 tbsp garlic powder
  • 1 tbsp onion powder

Broth mixture:

  • 1 cup red wine
  • 3 cups beef stock
  • 6 oz tomato paste
  • 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
  • 6 cloves of garlic pressed
  • 3 springs thyme
  • 2 bay leaves

**Vegetables:

  • 3 long ribs of celery
  • 1 lb carrots
  • 1 yellow onion
  • 5 lb baby gold potatoes

Thickening (optional):

  • 2 1/2 tbsp cornstarch
  • 2 tbsp cold beef stock

Instructions

Beef: Combine seasoning in a small mixing bowl. Season the beef chunks generously on all the sides and leave the remaining of the seasoning for the broth mixture. (Depending on the side of meat, you will probably use 1/2 to 3/4 of the seasoning.) Preheat Instant Pot on “saute” setting and drizzle oil over the bottom and some up the sides. Sear the beef halves until golden-brown on all the sides.

Cooking Pot Roast:

  1. Combine all the ingredients for the broth mix in a mixing bowl and whisk together until smooth.
  2. Take the beef out of the Instant Pot.
  3. Pour the broth mixture into the pot slowly while scraping the bottom of the pot with a wooden spoon.
  4. Let the broth mixture heat through and return beef to the pot.
  5. Close the lid of the Instant Pot and make sure it is latched. Turn the valve to “seal” and set the pot to cook on high pressure for 70-75 minutes. (Make sure to consult your pressure cooker manual for exact control specifications of your appliance.)
  6. Let it naturally release for 10 minutes and then carefully quick release the pressure. *Add vegetables into the pot, close the lid and make sure it’s latched and valve is turned to “seal.” Set to cook on high pressure for 6-8 minutes, depending on the size of baby potatoes.

 

Thicken Gravy:

  1. If you want to thicken the broth and make gravy: take cooked meat and vegetables out of the pot right away. Turn on “saute” setting and stir cornstarch mixture together with hot broth in the Instant Pot until it thickens.

 

 

Eelpout-Poor Man’s Lobster

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By Paul A. Smith of the Journal Sentinel

 

Eelpout is a fish known by many names. To those who have eaten the fish, however, there is only one description: delicious.

The fish, related to cod and haddock, is also known as “poor man’s lobster.”

Here’s a simple recipe for eelpout (burbot) that results in fine dining.

 

Ingredients: One liter of Sprite or 7-Up soda (not diet); eelpout; melted butter.

Directions:

  1. Fillet the fish, focusing on getting two long, bone-free sections of backstrap.
  2. Remove the skin from the muscle.
  3. Cut each fillet into 1- to 2-inch cubes.
  4. Boil a liter of Sprite or 7-Up.
  5. Drop eelpout cubes into boiling soda.
  6. Remove cubes when they float and turn white, about 2 or 3 minutes.
  7. Dip pieces of cooked fish in melted butter.
  8. Enjoy a native bounty.

 

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