Around a year ago, for some reasons, pressure cooker was mentioned. After a while, Totof told me he purchased a pressure cooker online.
We were excited when we received it. We wanted to try something with it. Luckily, this pressure cooker came with a recipe book. We read through it. Da la la. I wanted to try onion soup. The ingredient list looked simple. The preparation and cooking time looked reasonable. Ok. That was it. We went to Safeway to get all the necessary.
So excited. We were like two excited kids. We wanted to try our new toy.
Chef Totof chopped 5 medium onions. Put a tablespoon butter in a fried pan. The fun began. The recipe book said all onions needed to be cooked to golden brown (another golden brown. why golden brown is so popular in recipe books?) We followed the instruction and cooked onions around 20 min. Then, we moved all onions to our new toy - pressure cooker. On top of onions, we poured 6 cup chicken broth. We used high end chicken broth... Not because we were rich... Just because we purchased six packages organic chicken broth a week ago. We put pinch grind pepper inside. These were all we needed. Then we covered the cooker and locked it.
We used the second choice. This pressure cooker had 2 choices: 1 and 2. 1 took more time and 2 took less time. Of course we were eager to see the results. So, we agreed to use 2. The recipe book said it took 15 min to cook onion soup.
15 min waiting time. Not bad. So we turned on projector. Maybe we were playing Guitar Hero. Maybe we were watching an episode of something. Bang. The cook time alarmed went off. We went to kitchen. We heard the pressure cooker's si si sound. Please imagine the si si sound. Chef Totof turned to Physicist Totof. Physicist Totof said the si si sound was an indicator of the pressure cooker's condition. When a pressure cooker had a si si sound, it meant the pressure was about the threshold. You needed to release the pressure before you opened the lid. Otherwise you would be hurt by the high pressure.
I half believed half doubted Physicist Totof. But it did not matter. As long as the soup was tasty, I would not mind his bullshitting if he made up this explanation.
Physicist Totof released the pressure. The si si sound turned up to super si si sound. So loud. We needed to cover our ears when we were there. If you let yourself expose to this super si si sound for 30 min, you would turn to a deaf.
After the pressure were gone, Chef Totof unlocked the cooker. The smell was fantastic. The smell proved that our soup was successful. Was it? We setup the table and scooped some soup. The recipe said we needed Parmesan cheese. We did not have it. So we put some Mozzarella. We needed some couton. Safeway did not have it but it had some crispy Italian bread. Good enough. We got some. We took the bread package and opened it. We put one in each bowl. The soup was ready. Mission completed.
We could not wait any longer. We tasted. Oh la la. The soup was absolutely a hit.
So simple so healthy so delicious.
