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[Instant Pot] Wegmans Italian Classics Cheese Tortellini

Why would anyone write Instant Pot instructions for a frozen skillet meal? Small children taking every opportunity to try to destroy the house while you are slaving over a hot stove you cannot step away from, that's why!

I have not tested this recipe with any other frozen skillet meal but the one listed in the title, yet I highly suspect that it will work identically. If you try it, drop me a line and let me know whether my suspicions are accurate.

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[Instant Pot] Vegan Vegetable Soup

Let's talk about No Scrap Left Behind, which is one of my frequented subreddits. It is a movement all about taking the scraps from one recipe and using them in a different recipe. Since I'm a vegetarian, my scraps are almost always vegetables. And so, I make soup. In my Instant Pot. And so can you!

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[dehydrator] How To Store Extra Onion | Not Quick; Total Time Days

Don't you hate recipes that call for 1/2 an onion or 1/4 an onion? I do. What am I going to do with the rest of the onion? I do batch cooking, so it will be a long time before I get to using up the rest of that onion. I used to just throw the whole onion in, but that often times would upset the flavor balance.

But then I figured it out: dehydrate the onion.

Need that in more detail?

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