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> be me > going to cook lamb + potatoes with rosemary > look in the spice rack. rosemarys empty. used it up last week > this is good! time to open up the new nicer thing of rosemary > look in the refills row of my spice rack > no rosemary > look through the rest of the spice rack in case it was misplaced > no rosemary > look in the long-term dry goods shelf of the pantry cabinet > no rosemary > go back through my emails to find the order history > I never ordered rosemary > fuck > have a small breakdown > pull myself together. improv with italian seasoning + thyme + oregano > cook lamb, have dinner. pretty good. > go to put away all the spices I pulled out of the rack earlier > decide to reorganize while I'm at it > start to take everything out of the spice rack > spare rosemary

Decided to try a recipe for 10-minute microwave sticky toffee pudding. Since I've never had it and don't have any dates in the house, I instead followed someone's comment and used half a banana to produce something that is absolutely not sticky toffee pudding but is quite good. Kinda the consistency+taste of banana bread but a little more puddingy, drenched in caramel sauce with ice cream on top. And it did genuinely come together very quickly with a minimum of fuss/mess and was a nice novelty to randomly have a warm homemade dessert. My note for the future would be to let it cool more before adding the ice cream.

thank you! I am very smug of it

I'm calling this lunch culturally inaccurate gyudon, because the rice was leftover from a lemon garlic shrimp dish and the beef and onions were originally for birria tacos. the egg was normal

first dinner of 2026! mussels with garlic herb butter (already prepared in the frozen foods section), orzo with mushrooms, and roasted broccoli

basque cheesecake! the recipe was sized for a proper springform pan and I only had a much shorter round pan, so I wound up with a full muffin tin of leftover cheesecake

bbq tofu sliders! extremely messy to eat but very good and easy to make. also some roast cauliflower on the side