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The photo is of my Instant Pot Paella dish from Williams Sonoma that use all the time for a dinner when I am tired or exhausted.  You have to add chorizo sausage, peas and chicken according to directions.  You add the peas after the cooking phase.  I also add about 1/2# of peeled shrimp at the same time as the peas.  We love it.  I have only had one of the IP instant dishes that I have not liked.  I restock any time I am in the store.  

Actually I want to tell you also about something I consider a must have for saving for future meals find in this months Fine Cooking.  They are called Souper Cubes.  If you have read this for a while, you will know that I make my own broth.  I have been canning it and may still can the next broth, but what these cubes allow me to do is divide the broth into cubes that are pre-measured to be 

2 C, 1 1/2 C, 1 C, 2 T.  After the broth is frozen you can store in plastic bags.  I don’t intend to but what this does it allows me to have the smaller portions than 1 qt. without trying to figure out what to do with the rest of the quart.  If you go to soupercubes.com it takes you to Amazon and prime customers get free shipping.  You can buy the sizes separately or all in one package.  This even works if buy store bought broth.  Even the dried cubes now make 2 C at a time.  You can freeze the rest and not worry about using it up or throwing it away.  

Live alone and like homemade soup but do not like eating it for a week, the 2 C size is the perfect serving size.  Freeze it for that night you get home late just don’t want to cook.  That and your microwave will be your best friends.  

I really like the Williams Sonoma Instant Pot starters.  We had the Tuscan Lentil Soup Starter tonight.  It was excellent.  We have a serving leftover.  I served it with a salad and cheese and crackers.  Easy meal.  Didn’t take a photo, looked like lentil soup.   

We now have 3” of snow on top of the frozen sleet and ice coating the area.  Even if we could clear our driveway, the streets in our area have not been touched.  Lucy had fun in the snow this am and finally has started eating.  I took movies of her outside with Jim.  She lays in it and rolls in it and thinks it is normal.  

Taking it easy this week.  I am in love with the new Williams Sonoma InstantPot starters.  I made the chili tonight.  It has beans in it, but I would addd a drained can of black beans next time.  It was too hot for Jim.  I sprinkled it with Mexican cheese and cut up avocado.  We have 2 very generous servings leftover.  Didn’t take more that 15 minutes to make.  

About a month ago I ordered InstantPot pumpkin risotto.  You had to go to the store to pick it up.  While there I looked over all the starters and also picked Paella Starter.  We had it last night and it was wonderful.  It makes 6 servings and we have more leftover for tonight.  You add to the starter chicken thigh , chorizo, and peas.  I also thawed 8 oz. of shrimp.  I like for paella to have a seafood also.  I am definitely going to buy more of these starters.  This was delicious and real easy.  They probably did not include seafood as it does not fo well in an Instant Pot.  Before you add the content of the jar, you sauté both the chicken and the sausage.  At this point you could give the shrimp a quick cook.  At the end of the cooking after releasing the pressure, you put in the peas and recover the pot for 5 minutes.  I put the shrimp and the peas in at the same time, buried the shrimp in the Paella and covered the pot for 10 minutes.  Everything was perfectly done.