Coco Morante

Coco Morante
Business: The Lefty Spoon
Location: Portland, Oregon
Education: Self-taught (The Fannie Farmer Cookbook school of cooking, class of the 90's)
Expertise: Instant Pot, Air fryer/air fryer oven, Weeknight dinners, Kid-friendly recipes
  • Author of five cookbooks on Instant Pot cooking, including a #1 bestselling title on Amazon.
  • An industry expert on Instant Pot cooking.
  • Contributed to multiple print and online publications, including Simply Recipes, People Magazine, Epicurious, Taste Magazine, The Kitchn, Edible Silicon Valley, J.Weekly, Your Teen Magazine, Austin360

Experience

Coco has loved cooking from when she could first reach the kitchen counter, whisking up scrambled eggs and mixing up hot cocoa before preschool. Now a mom of two food-loving preschoolers herself, she has nine cookbooks under her belt including The Essential Instant Pot Cookbook, a #1 Amazon bestseller. Her latest project, The Instant Kitchen Meal Prep Cookbook will be available wherever books are sold in Fall 2025.

Cookbooks: The Ultimate Instant Pot Cookbook, The Essential Instant Pot Cookbook, The Ultimate Instant Pot Healthy Cookbook, The Essential Diabetes Instant Pot Cookbook, The Essential Vegan Instant Pot Cookbook, The Instant Kitchen Meal Prep Cookbook.

Most-beloved cooking tool: "Most-beloved cooking tool: "My hodgepodge "set" of knives. Good knife skills and decent knives make cooking so much easier and more enjoyable."

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5-Minute Chocolate Mousse (In a Blender)
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The 5-Ingredient Dip My Grandma Rachel Made All the Time—Now I Make It Too
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Garlic-coated roasted potatoes topped with fresh herbs on a plate with a spoon
My Garlic Melting Potatoes Are the 4-Ingredient Side Dish You Need To Make
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Ina Garten's Time-Saving Trick Changed How I Made Pasta
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Pesto Shrimp with Cherry Tomatoes
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The 4-Ingredient Smoothie I Make for My Kids Every Single Week
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Instant Pot Mexican Pulled Pork
115 mins
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The Easy Ground Beef Skillet Dinner I Make Every Summer
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