Instantly Southern

Fire up your multicooker or Instant Pot® and discover why Southern cuisine “takes to the appliance like butter on a biscuit” (The Washington Post). NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Atlanta Journal-Constitution • The Washington Post • Country Living • The Post and Courier From jambalaya to deviled eggs and praline cheesecake, in Instantly Southern you’ll find 85 ways to get fresh, delicious, and soulful breakfasts, lunches, and dinners on the table with less fuss than ever. Featuring supermarket staples such as winter squash, beef chuck roast, pork shoulder, and sweet potatoes, as well as signature Southern ingredients like okra, greens, beans, and Bourbon, these dishes are easy to make and easier to love. • Breakfasts: Shrimp and Stoneground Grits; Ham and Cheese Bread Pudding; Hummingbird Coffee Cake with Pineapple Cream Cheese Glaze • Hearty mains: Holiday Ham with Ginger-Peach Glaze; Chicken and Fluffy Dumplings; Bourbon and Cola Beef Short Ribs • Soups, salads, and healthy sides: Winter Squash Soup with Apple Butter Cream; Barley, Peach, and Cherry Salad with Sweet Tea Vinaigrette; Quick Greens • Dessert: Red Velvet Cheesecake; Salted Caramel Banana Pudding; Pineapple-Upside Down Whether you're cooking for company or your family on a hectic night, there are plenty of tempting options for every meal of the day. Praise for Instantly Southern “This IP title shines a bit brighter than the rest of its ilk because the author is fun to read, and this cuisine takes to the appliance like butter on a biscuit.”—The Washington Post “If Sheri Castle gives me a kitchen tip, I take it seriously. She has completely convinced me that I can’t cook another day without my own Instant Pot.”—Vivian Howard, award winning chef, author, and host of A Chef’s Life

There's no kitchen countertop appliance we love more than an Instant Pot&®, which is a busy cook's best friend. The test kitchen pros at Southern Living will show you how to turn out easy and delicious meals with their favorite Instant Pot recipes, including classic Southern favorites like macaroni and cheese, fried chicken, jambalaya, chicken and dumplings, beef stew, and more. We've also included our best air fryer recipes, including French fries, chicken tenders, fried okra, and more. You'll be amazed at how these gadgets can turn out tasty weeknight dinners in half the time!

THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Brittany Williams lost more than 125 pounds using her Instant Pot® and making all her meals from scratch. Now she shares 125 quick, easy, and tasty whole food recipes that can help you reach your weight loss goals, too! Brittany Williams had struggled with her weight all her life. She grew up eating the standard American staples—fast, frozen, fried, and processed—and hit a peak weight of 260 pounds. When her 4-year-old daughter’s autoimmune disease was alleviated by a low-sugar, dairy-free, grain-free, whole-food-based diet, Brittany realized she owed her own body the same kind of healing. So on January 1, 2017, she vowed to make every meal for a year from scratch, aided by her Instant Pot®. She discovered that the versatility, speed, and ease of the electric pressure cooker made creating wholesome, tasty, family-satisfying meals a breeze, usually taking under thirty minutes. Not only did the family thrive over the course of the year, Brittany lost an astonishing 125 pounds, all documented on her Instant Loss blog. Illustrated with gorgeous photography, Instant Loss Cookbook shares 125 recipes and the meal plan that Brittany used for her own weight loss, 75% of which are recipes for the Instant Pot® or other multicooker. These recipes are whole food-based with a spotlight on veggies, mostly dairy and grain-free, and use ingredients that you can find at any grocery store. The clearest guide to navigating your Instant Pot® or other multicooker that you’ll find, Instant Loss Cookbook makes healthy eating convenient—and that’s the key to sustainable weight loss.

Welcome to 103 Southern Living Instant Pot Magic: Recipes for Quick and Southern-Inspired Cooking - a cookbook that celebrates the time-honored traditions of Southern cooking and the convenience of the Instant Pot. Southern food is all about bringing people together, whether it's around the table for comfort food classics like shrimp and grits or soul-warming stews and casseroles. That's why it's so perfect for the Instant Pot - it helps to create heartwarming meals that are as delicious as they are easy to make. This cookbook features a collection of 103 recipes, inspired by the flavors of the Southern United States, that are perfect for busy families, or anyone who wants to enjoy delicious Southern cooking without spending an entire day in the kitchen. From pulled pork to gumbo, this cookbook has everything you need to bring the authentic taste of the South to your kitchen. Additionally, every recipe can be served either as an appetizer, side dish, main course, or dessert, so no matter your preference or occasion, you can easily find a dish to fit your needs. Plus, with easy to follow instructions and step-by-step photos, you can whip up delicious Southern-inspired meals in minutes. So if it's your first time using the Instant Pot or you're already a Southern cooking pro, this cookbook is the perfect guide for creating quick and flavorful dishes. Discover how easy it is to make Southern dishes like creamy mac and cheese, collard greens, peach cobbler and more with the help of 103 Southern Living Instant Pot Magic: Recipes for Quick and Southern-Inspired Cooking. Enjoy every bite and mealtime is something to be savored and shared with family and friends.

Southern food and food stories are bound together. This book will reflect people, regardless of where they come form, who claim Southern food as their own, whether for a lifetime or a mealtime. People feel deep affection for their local community cookbooks, especially those well-worn volumes that serve as a timestamp of a particular place and time. No other type of recipe collection is more generous, gracious, and welcoming. Before we give you a bite, we Southern cooks have to tell you about what we've made. Southern food is evocative, so our food and food stories are bound together in our communities. A memorable Southern cookbook holds good food and a good read, the equivalent of a brimming recipe box plus the scribbled notes and whispered secrets that cover the tips, advice, and stories that a generous cook shares with family members, friends, and neighbors. These recipes bring all sorts of cooks, recipes, and stories to a common table to bring readers a cookbook filled with good things to eat that have something to say.

The first electric pressure cooker book devoted specifically to French food, Instantly French! brings the scrumptious flavors of traditional French cuisine to your table—without the hours of slow cooking French food normally requires. Author of Mastering the Art of French Eating, Ann Mah is undoubtedly an expert on all things relating to French food. But when she discovered the electric pressure cooker, she realized that it was the secret weapon the French have used for years to speedily prepare the complex dishes of la cuisine de grandmère. In her first cookbook, Ann celebrates everything gastronomically French that an electric pressure cooker can do with over seventy different recipes that cut cooking times in more than half. The delights of Instantly French! range from appetizers like eggplant caviar, pâté de campagne, and savory mini blue cheese cakes to soups like traditional French onion or an autumnal purée of butternut squash and chestnut. For main courses, there are classics like boeuf bourguignon, cassoulet, chicken tagine with preserved lemons, and blanquette de veau. Desserts feature poached pears, flourless chocolate cake, and crème brulée. And, all of these dishes can be made in a fraction of the time they usually take. Illustrated throughout with full color photos, Instantly French! is the essential guide to fast, delicious French cooking with your electric pressure cooker.

With over 600 recipes hand-selected by the busy Southern Living Test Kitchens Professionals and Food Editors as their very best fast favorites to prepare for their families and friends, the cook can be sure the recipes in this hefty, 100-pound paper stock book full of pretty photos are indeed quick and delicious. The book was designed for readers to find the recipes they need in a flash; a make-ahead symbol on more than half of the recipes, over 250, identifies at a glance recipes than can be partially or totally made ahead. Other recipe banners highlight those recipes that can be prepared in 30, 20, and even 10 minutes, start to finish.

This lively, handsomely illustrated, first-of-its-kind book celebrates the food of the American South in all its glorious variety—yesterday, today, at home, on the road, in history. It brings us the story of Southern cooking; a guide for more than 200 restaurants in eleven Southern states; a compilation of more than 150 time-honored Southern foods; a wonderfully useful annotated bibliography of more than 250 Southern cookbooks; and a collection of more than 200 opinionated, funny, nostalgic, or mouth-watering short selections (from George Washington Carver on sweet potatoes to Flannery O’Connor on collard greens). Here, in sum, is the flavor and feel of what it has meant for Southerners, over the generations, to gather at the table—in a book that’s for reading, for cooking, for eating (in or out), for referring to, for browsing in, and, above all, for enjoying.