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What’s for dinner tonight? Well all out of the blue I shared some refried beans with family to try so I had none in the freezer. Making fresh refried beans without soaking them can lead to a disaster but I’m telling you can still not soak the beans and have perfect refried beans. What is the secret to warm very good refried beans it’s Bay leafs for most who do not cook beans with meat would never think of using a Bayleaf in a recipe for refried beans.     I have tried cooking beans in the pressure cooker before and I have to admit the first time I failed. It sucked for us for dinner but was able to find something else to eat. Anyways here is how to cook Pinto beans in the Instapot mine is a Crockpot pressure cooker there fairly inexpensive especially when you consider Christmas sales at Best Buy about $50. What a steal and came with a free item.  Amanda’s Recipe No soak Instapot Easy recipe Wash with purified water  the 1/2 bag about 16 oz pinto beans in a strai...

  Cooking air fryer at 290 for 12-15 minutes depending on your air fryer  these ones below were cooked in a Gourmia air fryer 290  for 12 minutes. To prepare for the air fryer you have to cut the corn tortilla chips into triangles than add olive oil on both sides of the tortilla triangles.  Than place the triangle corn tortillas into the air fryer. Flip with tongs every 3 minutes. You’ll find some that might not cook all the way ,cook those 3 minutes more for the most part the ones I found were very few. Most people want air fryer chips so that they don’t have to eat fried chips. Chips Bag of corn tortillas fajita size cut in triangles 6 tbl extra virgin olive oil        Air fryer  Add any spices you want to the chips or salt     Cook 290 for 12 minutes - 15 depending on your air fryer.   I’ve tried the 350-300 for cooking the chips but they always come out very dark even with oil so those temps...