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This is a very specific recipe for a very specific machine which I happen to have access to. The instructions which come with it do contain an English potion which has recipes for whole soy beans but say "wet and dry beans".

Wet beans means that you've thought about it ahead of time and soaked your soy beans. Those of you who have been a reader of my blog for a while know that I'm not that person. And I don't want to pull out my Instant Pot in order to quick-soak the soy beans, either.

So I figured out a recipe to make soy milk in this maker from 100% dry beans!

Let's get to it!

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!

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?

First, let me say that this recipe is not a quick way to put dinner on the table, but in terms of actual time you have to do any actual thing, it will only involve your human labor for about 15 minutes. Meets my patient-yet-lazy standards!