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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!

Let's get to it!

This is a vegan Lebanese dish of spiced lentils, though Egypt has a similar dish (different spice profile, natch). If you have lentils, onion, garlic, rice, and some olive (or other high temp) oil kicking around and you want a quick and filling meal, this is a good dish to try.

You will need two mixing bowls, a knife, a big stirring spoon, and a cutting board as well as the Instant Pot. Also, if you want, a third mixing bowl and a strainer that fits within it so that you can freeze up some vegetable stock.

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!

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 10 minutes. Meets my patient-yet-lazy standards.