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[Instant Pot] Mujadara 2.0 - More Dump, Fewer Bowls

I have an earlier version of this recipe kicking around and wanted to update now that I've got executive dysfunction AND a toddler. That's double not able to attend to my cooking, so I shifted things around and made this more of a dump-and-go recipe.

Mujadara is a vegan, middle-eastern dish of spiced lentils. It's name means "pockmarked" which is in reference to the rice looking pockmarked by the lentils. The spice profile used here is lebanese because yum. In the Notes section, I'll offer other sources of other spice profiles from other countries and cultures.

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Taco Seasoning

I love a good make-ahead spice mix. It helps in terms of economizing if you can make it in a large enough batch and/or have multiple people to part it out between. Much as we did with the makhani spice mix, here's the recipe to replicate a packet of taco seasoning.

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[baking] Minimal Effort Peach Pie

Today is Pi Day! While I much prefer to buy my pies and let some food processing robotic line somewhere handle pie crust and keeping the edges unburnt while getting the middle cooked through, when someone has dietary restrictions that don't allow for robot pie baking lines to labor for me, it means I have to cook it myself. Ughhhhhhh.

Here's a recipe that never lets me down. Crumble topping so I don't have to deal with that most finicky of pie crust edge burning annoyances.

See the notes section at the end of this recipe for the simple substitutions one needs to make this vegan.

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McCormick's Butter Chicken Spice Mix