A Gujarati khichri for breakfast, to taste-test the Indian/Punjabi style pickle made with chinotto orange.
The chinotto orange pickle is Ok, still with a slight bitter edge which is Ok as bitter is a flavour missing in Western diets #Ayurveda. I think it will go extremely well with rice, vegetable curries and chole. I'll wait for my final opinion when I try this way.
The beetroot and orange kvass is bottled and in the fridge. It tastes awesome - so slow to ferment because of the orange (slows it down) I thought it would never develop a rich taste. But it has. Usually it is better after some time in the fridge so can't wait for that. The fermented beetroot, strained of the kvass liquid, is in the oven to bake.
The beetroot and turnip (and ginger) kvass is coming along nicely. It is a stronger fermenter, and will be ready in 1-2 days (I started it some days after the other one).
I tasted the Quince Vinegar in the fridge - ooohee it tastes good. I used some in the lima beans I am cooking in the #InstantPot.
The Orange Scrap Vinegar is coming along nicely - lots of weeks left for it. It is likely to be a vinegar used for cleaning.
Lima beans/butter beans are in the #InstantPot - these will go into soup and others into the freezer. Also I put some on to bake in the oven, Italian style, with herbs, garlic, olive oil etc. These will be ready in 2 hours.
When I cook butter beans in the #InstantPot, for soups etc, I add a little salt, vinegar and oil, as well as whole garlic cloves and parsley stems*. For soaked beans, it takes 9 mins at HP plus a FNR (about 20 mins). Times will depend on your IP and your beans.
*Sage and rosemary are good alternatives to parsley stems.
Ik sta toch zo ont-zet-tend lekker te koken!
Al courgettesoep gemaakt (4 x voor de vriezer) en nu een kip curry in de instantpot. Óok voor de vriezer.
Niemand thuis en heerlijk op m'n gemakje. 1e keer weer zo uitgebreid sinds de winter. Heerlijk!
(Dat ik daar weer lol en vertrouwen in heb komt door de #instantpot) 
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I've had the #InstantPot caramelize individual veggies on the sauté function, and it works well to cook pasta along with everything else. It's been a long time since I've used a slow cooker.
Porridge for breakfast this morning.
I pressure cooked these Canadian rolled oats for 2 minutes + natural release. Perfection! 
Today I tried my hand at steam canning. Not sure if it’s going to seal up all the way to safely preserve, but at least I made a valiant attempt.
I put some green lentils on to soak yesterday and today I'll sprout them using the #InstantPot. It takes 8-12 hours on a just-warm yoghurt setting. I love to make sprouted-lentil curries with just-sprouted lentils (not the long tailed sprouts that are common here).
Also, late yesterday I did a jar of onions to ferment-pickle. These'll be great for layering on top of dishes for that lovely onion bite. The inspiration is from #KirstenShockey's #FermentedVegetables.
I have made so much soup in the past 2 days. The freezer is very grateful.
Thank goodness I have finished peeling the dried fava beans /broad beans that I soaked the other day - peeling is a repetitive and meditative process that can take aaaaages. You also need a good thumb nail 
The fava bean, fennel bulb and turmeric soup is in the #InstantPot 
It is one of my 2 fav wintery soups.
Here (in Australia) we equate fava beans and broad beans, but recently I have seen recipes and people differentiating between them. I am not sure if this is the case in Italy, or just in the US.
There are many different varieties of broad beans - we tend to grow one main sort here. But the Middle Eastern shops have several different dried varieties, from small to large.
(I prefer the large dried ones for this soup. They have more flavour.)
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I've never salted beans before cooking. I don't add much salt to any of my foods until cooking is complete. I see recommendations both ways.
Totally agree that the #instantPot is amazing with beans, wonderful beans. Also, every sort of grain. I resort to using the rice cooker (also quite good) when the Instant Pot is already occupied.
I was reminded today how great the #instantPot is for cooking beans/grains/lentils and soups. If I never made anything else in it, it would still be worth having.
I needed to cook lima beans without soaking. I did a "quick soak" in the Instant Pot - cover with water, some salt and a good drizzle of olive oil, pressure cook for 2 mins, leave off heat for 5 mins, release pressure, drain. Perfectly soaked* Keep the water they were quick soaked in, it can be broth for another soup.
To cook the beans, cover again with cold water and cook for required time as usual.
Once the lima beans were cooked, I made a simple chickpea and lima bean soup with veg, again using the IP too. It had rosemary and tomato passata, and I added some of my own flavour bomb powders. A handful of chopped parsley gets thrown in. The soup was Oh So Very Good. It was thick and delicious and second-helping worthy.**
*This tip is from #ModernPressureCooking by #CatherinePhipps; the oil is to stop the foaming that happens with starchy ingredients like dried beans
**The soup recipe was adapted from #TheSoupBible by #DebraMayhew. It also included pasta, which I omitted. It has some very meaty soups too, but all the vegetarian ones that I have cooked have been amazing.
I have updated the pickle for today to Pickled Quince, western style - it looks a bit like the pickled pumpkin when I peer into the fridge.
I've made a big tray of roasted fermented vegetables (from the gut shot), left-over pumpkin (from making the ferment) and chickpeas (from the freezer). Inspired by another recipe from #OnePanPerfect by #DonnaHay. It is a dish of roasted pumpkin and other veg bits with chickpeas and feta (replace with tofu).
I managed to use several of my ferments in the dish as substitutes - chilli water and chilli paste for paprika, preserved lemons for lemon wedges, fermented pomegranate and quince honey for honey, and my grape vinegar for the vinegar. Hooray! 
They are all such flavoursome subs. It will be topped with some fennel ferment and some purslane ferment.
The oven is warming the kitchen nicely.
I need to clean the kitchen tho 
then make some chickpea soup in the #InstantPot plus I might put some onions on to ferment into a relish. Making the most of holidays.
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Good morning all you beautiful people. Cold old weather, a few drizzles overnight, not much.
A vegetarian's kitchen is always soaking something.
Lined up on the bench today, looking very lovely and healthy, sitting in different soaking containers, is proso millet, fava beans, chickpeas. Some for cooking today, some for tomorrow. The #InstantPot comes in very handy when I am doing a lentil and bean cook-up.
As usual some of the chickpeas will go in the freezer after cooking. I keep one area of the freezer for cooked lentils and beans to use in quick dishes as needed.
Why wait hours for dinner? The Instant Pot speeds things up without losing flavor! #instantpot #recipes
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I've never really used black-eyed beans much, but recently I have fallen a little bit in love with them.
Even just cooking them in the #InstantPot in the same way I cook all beans and most lentils - with a drizzle of olive oil, some herbs I've dried, salt, and a touch of acid (lemon ju, or tiny bit of vinegar, etc..) - makes a gorgeous, light soup full of flavour.
I accidentally ate them as soup the other day, rather than saving them for a dish I had thought to cook later 
Cooking doesn’t get easier than this. These Instant Pot recipes are packed with flavor and done fast! #food #instantpot #recipes
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