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How to Instant Pot your picnic, with recipes for pate, savory cheesecake and dessert

Now that I've been cooking in the Instant Pot for a while, I've been trying to think outside of the box about it. I've tripped up a few times (overcooked vegetables, undercooked beans), but I feel confident about Instant Potting everything from cheesecakes and flan to yogurt and paneer to risotto and biryani. It's time for a new challenge.

I came across a recipe for country pate, a dish I had never tackled, done in the Instant Pot. Brilliant! Instead of being mildly overwhelmed by foil-wrapped bricks, water baths and caul fat, why not pressure-cook your forcemeat in a canning jar? And, if it's already in a jar, why not take pate-in-a-jar to a picnic? And why not round out the offerings with more portable Instant Pot

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