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Architecture and polenta lunch.

Irises, forget-me-nots, and buttercups in the back yard. Still waiting to see what some of the other plants are.

Black sesame seed latte tasted like peanut butter. Glad I got that out of my system.

Immersion blender for memorial day cookout! Wasn't needed for ice cream.

Iced coffee the brute-force way: more concentrated pour-over directly over ice.

First fizzy coffee of the season!

In between the weeding and mowing and assembly, I also baked a batch of GF potato rolls. Starts the night before by baking a potato. Then the assembled dough has an 8 hour proof / rise / whatever time. Had them in time for dinner (pork chop, broccolini, rice).

Mowing and weeding and assembling all in time for an alternate patio set-up. Lots of weeding still to do.

Porch chicken from my dad then cheesecake and Eurovision when the rain started.

I made sauce the other day and had just enough left over, along with other ingredients, to make a quick passable chicken parm. It was fine. But it was mostly nice to eat a pile of meat and acid and scratchy that might be very bad for anyone else in this house right now.

With no lilac tree at the new house, I had to steal a few from my parents. The smell kind of worked with my London fog?

A friend had a birthday at Mint mojito bar, so I got… I don't recall. It was a week ago.

The potato rolls taste good. As I pulled one off the mass, my hand told me the texture was bread Jell-O, and yeah, just a bit.

Still tasty.

But then I get a lovely fist of bread with a great crust that I devour almost entirely when it comes out of the oven.

Paired with the salty coconut chocolate balls (yes) I brought home from Fabrique and had quite the butter bomb fika.