Instant pot pasta

Dunnon if others already do this, I just came up with it tonight. I made marinated beef, dried mushroom, sweet potato and various spices in my instant pot. As usual, there was a good amount of delicious smelling liquid at the end. Hating to waste it, I dumped in some macaroni, and turned on the rice function. I could easily have the meat / potato/mushroom as one meal, and the macaroni with a chunk or two of the beef mashed up in it, or I could just combine the whole lot. Either way, feels like a frugal win for yummy pasta. It reminds me of a casserole my mom used to make when I was a kid, I hated it, it was simply pasta, tomato chunks, and I don't know if there was any other sauce. This with the beef liquid it delish. I know many will bottle the liquid and use later, but I know I won't do that, better to use it up.