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IN SEASON ALERT! It is winter and that means citrus is in season so that means they are cheap and plentiful!

As a person with executive dysfunction, I loathe grating citrus zest. One of the substitutes I like to make is a powdered citrus peel. I make this from the peel of citrus fruits I was otherwise eating anyway, and simply reserve the peel for this extra process. This is a /r/NoScrapLeftBehind kind of #frugal winner.

It is very simple to make: raw (as in not boiled to otherwise cooked) citrus peel (including pith) dehydrated and then ground up in a spice grinder.

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IN SEASON ALERT! It is the beginning of April and the ingredients you'll need are in season so that means they are cheap and plentiful!

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!

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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.

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