Pressure Cooked Hard Boiled Eggs

Do you ever cook hard boiled eggs then when you go to peel it, the darn shell sticks to the eggs and you end up having like craters in your eggs! That ain't gonna work definitely when you need the egg looking all pretty for presentation purposes. So I read up on how to cook eggs in the pressure cooker, as scary as that sounded, I decided to give it a try. What's the worst that can happen (eggs blowing up!)?

To get the eggs to cook evenly, you would normally have to submerge the eggs in water. But with my Philips electric pressure cooker, you don't need to submerge them. In the pot of your pressure cooker, put a cloth on the bottom and put a steaming rack on top of the cloth. Then add about a cup of water. Arrange the eggs on top of the rack and close the lid. Set the knob to Seal and press the steam button, and set the keep pressure time to 6 minutes. Once it has finished cooking, you can let the pressure cooker release the pressure automatically. If you were doing this for a soft boiled egg, you would want to release the pressure manually so as not to over cook the eggs.

Once the floating valve has dropped, you can safely open the lid. Submerge the eggs in some cold water. This will help stop cooking the eggs as well as make it easier to handle. 

Once they're cool enough to handle, peel away!

I cooked about 25 eggs here and each and every one peeled off perfectly.

Here's a bit of tip, if you need the egg yolks to cook perfectly in the middle of the egg then you'll need to stand the eggs upright in the pressure cooker. You can use some old metal lids from bottles. But in my case for this instance, I was cooking the eggs for devilled eggs and I wanted to cook a whole bunch all at once, so there would have been no way I could have fitted that many eggs in the pot had I stood them up. But in not doing so, you can see in the picture that the egg yolks are on the sides of the eggs, so presentation wise not the best.

So this is what I made with all those eggs! Spider Devilled Eggs! Spiders were made by cutting pitted black olives and arranging them to look like spiders. Spooky? :)

Pressure Cooked Corn and Spam Rice

This is a really easy one pot dish that's popular with kids...unless of course your kids don't like corn or spam. But if they don't then you can substitute it with green peas and chopped ham or bacon. Sure you can cook this in a rice cooker, but it's so much faster in the pressure cooker.

First wash your rice as your normally would and add it to the pressure cooker pot and fill up with the right amount of water for your amount of rice. If you're using fresh corn off a cob, use a knife to cut off the kernels and add them to the pot with the rice. You can also use frozen corn. Now, get your can of spam and cut it into cubes and add it all to the pot. Add some salt and pepper and close the lid and turn the valve to Seal. For Philips Pressure Cooker, set it to the Rice mode and press start and that's it!

Once the cooker has finished keeping pressure, you can either manually release the pressure or wait for the pressure to be released automatically. I am usually very impatient, so will usually release the pressure manually with a long cooking spatula, and I will release it little by little, not in one shot.

After all the pressure is released, stir the rice, and if you want, you can add a dollop of butter to make it more rich, and taste to adjust the seasonings. You can take this recipe further and turn it into a baked rice. Spoon the rice into heat proof ramekins and sprinkle with mozzarella cheese. A white sauce underneath the cheese is optional. Bake it in a hot oven until the cheese melts or you can place it under the grill/broiler to brown. If you have a Philips Air Fryer, you can also cook it in there.

If you don't like corn, feel free to substitute with any other vegetables such as frozen peas, capsicums, broccoli, etc.

Hope you try this recipe and let me know how it goes. Enjoy!

Day 4 of TR90

My Coach says What is Success without a little sweat!

It's true, losing weight has never been easy for me and for anybody who ever has had a weight problem.

My biggest challenge with this is just trying to have proper portion control on my meals and to eat healthier options. I do feel myself getting hungry every so often, but this time I'm super determined for this program to work, so I will consciously choose what I snack on, such as fruits, sweet potatoes or yogurt, etc.

One of the hardest thing to get used to is having to replace your dinner with the Trimshake. For now I can't replace the entire dinner with just the Trimshake yet as I still feel hungry and I do feel the need to eat/chew something. So when I'm preparing meals for my family I do take a bit of this or that. I think it's ok as long as you aren't eating a full meal as well as having Trimshake. I think the Trimshake is supposed to replace the bulk of your meal and it's ok if you want to nibble on some meat and or vegetables, so long as you're not having a plate of carbs.

I'm grateful that this program has a Coach because it really helps you to feel motivated when you have someone to talk to or have someone talk about how you're feeling on the program. Also it helps you to stick to the program as there's someone you are accountable to.

I started off with 76.1kg, and on Day 4, I weigh 75.4, so is that just water weight I'm losing? Or is this program really working, we shall see!

Day1 of TR90

I woke up and was feeling excited at the thought of this was the beginning of me getting back into shape. Don't get me wrong, I was still a bit skeptical that I'm gonna lose weight on this program, but I am determined to make it work!

So the first thing you have to do every morning for 15 days is to take the Jumpstart mix. You have to mix this powder with water and then drink it up.

Once mixed with water, it looks a bit like juice, it kinda tastes like juice...but....it doesn't really taste like 'good' juice. I have to chug it down in one shot because it has this slightly weird taste, like metallic taste.

Then after 30 minutes, we have to take the Complex and Control supplements and wait for 15 minutes before we can eat anything. The Complex and Control supplements aren't hard to take coz they're capsules. I manage to swallow 2 of each one in one go.

I had my breakfast t the local market, mornings I am usually famished, and well I chose Prawn Noodles....lots of carbs i know....

it's not that unhealthy right??

Then after breakfast you have to take some more supplements. These sets of supplements are a 'killer'. Seriously they're a little big and there's 4 of them! 

I'm not sure if my body was adjusting to the supplements or what, but I got hungry really fast for lunch and then started getting a little woozy. So then I prepared lunch for myself. I made a mixed salad bowl with whatever stuff I had at home. I added cooked Quinoa, cooked Millet, Lettuce, half a can of Tuna, some sliced mushrooms, some cooked broccoli and cooked cauliflower, and cooked sweet potatoes.

Cooked Quinoa and Millet. My favourite!

My anyhow thrown together salad bowl. It tasted great!

So after lunch, I started getting gastric pains, I'm not sure if it was from the food, or coz i was too hunger, I just don't know. So I had to lie down and take a nap and take some antacid which kind of helped a bit.

Dinner came around, and again it's a repeat of taking the supplements 15 minutes before dinner. Dinner was the Vanilla Shake. I was a bit nervous about it because I've tasted some horrible shakes in the past. This one was alright, thank God, tasted just like a vanilla milkshake. I was surprised that it filled me up and I actually felt quite full! I did have to cook dinner for Caelyn and hubby, so that was slightly difficult knowing that I can't eat what they're eating. I made Siu Mai, so I did eat one or two. And I cooked them noodles, so I had to try it of course. So it's not like I didn't eat anything and just had a liquid dinner, but it's just that I replaced the bulk of my dinner with the Shake.

Caelyn has been super good in keeping me on track and reminding me to take this and that. I really want to do her proud and show her that Mummy can do anything when she puts her mind to it! I'm excited for the review in 2 weeks time.

TR90

When you sign up for the TR90 program, by NuSkin, you will receive all of the following to set you up for the program for 1 month.

Let's go through the contents one by one.

Resistance Band, which also can double up as a skipping rope according to darling daughter. 

This is called Jumpstart, it comes in individual sachets which you mix with water. This lasts for 15 days.

This awesome Shaker Bottle. I really love this, It has a wide opening to make it easier to pour in your shake and the metal thing on the inside is great at breaking up any lumps.

a measuring tape, in case you don't have one.

LifePak, multi vitamins conveniently packed in little sachets.

Vanilla Shake, 15 sachets per box, so you get 2 boxes.

A nifty pill storage box.

TR90 Control, 120 capsules per bottle

TR90 Comples, 120 capsules per bottle