{"id":13678,"date":"2019-04-18T15:18:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T20:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=13678"},"modified":"2019-04-18T15:19:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T20:19:06","slug":"instant-pot-ham-brussels-sprouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=13678","title":{"rendered":"Instant Pot = Ham &#038; Brussels Sprouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Side note:\u00a0 I just learned that it is in fact Brussels sprouts with an &#8220;s&#8221; a the end of brussel.\u00a0 Huh.\u00a0 I always thought it was brussel sprouts.\u00a0 But thanks to red lines under my misspelled words, I am now wiser!\u00a0 So, if you didn&#8217;t know that&#8211;now you do too!<\/p>\n<p>I made a ham yesterday in my Instant pot in preparation for Sunday, which is EASTER!\u00a0 Yippie!\u00a0 It turned out quite well, so I am excited to make it again on Sunday.\u00a0 And it was so fast compared to heating it for hours in the oven.\u00a0 It had a nice flavor with crushed pineapple and honey and brown sugar smothered all over it, so really, what&#8217;s not to like?!<\/p>\n<p>Family breakdown:\u00a0 Josiah loved it.\u00a0 The rest of the kids were just ok with it.\u00a0 Tim and I both liked it a lot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=13681\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13681\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13681\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/instant-pot-ham-R-764x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/instant-pot-ham-R.jpg 764w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/instant-pot-ham-R-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Then today I made Brussels sprouts.\u00a0 It ended up being Brussels sprouts in sauteed onions with a little seasoning&#8211;and I&#8217;m still on the fence about it.\u00a0 I am pretty sure I like it.\u00a0 I just have to come to terms with little tiny cabbages.\u00a0 It was a tad too peppery, so my mouth felt a bit spicy after I ate a few.\u00a0 Maddie and Levi sampled it and came back for a 2nd and 3rd bite, so I can say that they approve.\u00a0 I did like the convenience of the speed of cooking it in the instant pot.\u00a0 It was a few minutes to saute the onions and then I put the lid on and pressure cooked it for 5 min. (which really isn&#8217;t 5 min. because it has to come up to pressure first which can take 5-10 min, but it is still unsupervised cooking time, which I can appreciate).<\/p>\n<p>One of my friends suggested I saute the sprouts with bacon, so I&#8217;m going to try that tomorrow.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I can imagine that the bacon will give it a nice flavor boost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=13680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13680\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13680\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/brussels-sprouts-R-764x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/brussels-sprouts-R.jpg 764w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/brussels-sprouts-R-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Side note:\u00a0 I just learned that it is in fact Brussels sprouts with an &#8220;s&#8221; a the end of brussel.\u00a0 Huh.\u00a0 I always thought it was brussel sprouts.\u00a0 But thanks to red lines under my misspelled words, I am now wiser!\u00a0 So, if you didn&#8217;t know that&#8211;now you do too! I made a ham yesterday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13678"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13684,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13678\/revisions\/13684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}