
Instant Pot Rotisserie Chicken from Cooking With Curls yields tender, juicy, lick-your-fingers good meat for dinner now! It also makes for fabulous salad or wraps as leftovers. Right off the bat, this one is a GAME CHANGER! You can make a whole rotisserie chicken (okay, a faux-tisserie chicken) in the Instant Pot! WHAT!? No more frantic 4:30 Costco runs?! That’s right, folks, you can cook your own in just about 30 minutes. (Pssst! If you have leftover food, be sure to try these leftover ideas ! Modify seasonally or based on what’s taking up room in your fridge.) “Winner-winner-chicken-dinner” Recipes, Instant Pot style! 1) Rotisserie Chicken When it comes to those marathon dish cleaning sessions and the usual need to rotate kitchen stations a hundred times per meal… this is literally a life (and back) saver! Most Instant Pot recipes are one-pot stops. It takes a bit of adjusting but it’s worth it in the end. You should understand that preparing your favorite recipes with a pressure cooker is different from other traditional cooking methods. Yes, I know my dance moves look even more ridiculous when I’m pregnant.Easy Chicken Instant Pot Recipes That Anyone Can Make (Really!)Ĭooking with an Instant Pot is certainly a massive time-saver. Stir in the cilantro and lime at the end. Add your garlic and cook for a minute more, then add the shredded chicken and ¾ cup of the enchilada sauce and heat through.

Add your chopped onions and peppers and cook until softened, stirring occasionally. How will I motivate like this when I’m not pregnant anymore?Ī little pop and lock with a big baby bump during a warm up brings a whole lot of laughs to everyone. Heat a large non-stick pan over medium heat and spray with olive oil cooking spray. Teaching while pregnant is an instant motivator – so many people have told me that if I can do it while pregnant, they’ve got to try too. It would be a bit embarrassing, maybe a little gross for the gym floor, but then also exciting! Towards the end I worry that my water will break during a class and that my face will turn a new shade of red. And hey, if your water breaks it will hide that better too! I have peed myself a little during jumping jacks. I do a whole lot more “form checks” the more pregnant I am. Not because I am working out really hard, but this child is pushing on my lungs and the whole moving/lifting/talking thing gets tricky.

And THEN we start working out.Īnd then I can’t breath. Sometimes (most times) I am already sweating just moving my weights around and setting up for the class. It helps me fight the tired and pregnant feelings. I love my classes, my people and I love how exercise makes me feel.

When you’re pregnant and tired, and tired and pregnant, it is SO hard to stay motivated to move, so I feel pretty blessed that I receive forced motivation to exercise almost daily.Įven when I really don’t want to teach (see tired and pregnant above) I NEVER regret it. If it wasn’t my job, I would not be working out like I do.

What can I say? It’s endearing to hear nice things about yourself! (Everyone tell pregnant ladies how great they are, it makes them feel good) It really does make me smile ear to ear when people tell me how amazing they think I am for teaching and doing what I do – while 9+ months pregnant. Because it hasn’t been that long since I was pregnant, and they are all SO TRUE. So with my first post baby workout in, now seems a great time to share my confessions of a pregnant group fitness instruction. I had planned to share it that weekend, but then Nova arrived! And newborn life happened. Today’s post I actually wrote 2 days before I had Nova, the day I taught my last Body Pump class. I didn’t realize how big of a difference that made until the baby bump was gone. The class was easier than I expected, and I realized the reason why – I wasn’t pregnant anymore. I kept my movements easy, and it felt AMAZING! Turns out I missed the endorphins too. It had been a little over a month since my last workout (which was fitness yoga the day before I had Nova!), and my body was beginning to crave it. Yesterday I taught my first post-baby fitness yoga class, and while I had not initially planned to do the workout as well, I was itching for some movement.
