still making headway into the dumpstermeat: ~15 packs of 2x chicken breasts remain. (in addition to the freezers of lamb, sausages, meatballs, steak, and fish.) barbecued last night two steaks in fresh lemon, rosemary, sea salt, crushed b. & r. pepper, little bit of tamari on recommendations from the pater, who grilled steaks for me before i understood fractions. i'm trying to break the habit of coating things in smaller other things. (i chopped rosemary etc., rubbed the steaks in oil, and encrusted them. it's delicious but a bad habit, i'd like to branch out. the 4 bags of jumbo shrimp we dumpstered also went the way of the Coating, getting battered in egg, flour, pepper, and fried. those were phenomenal, though: butter and lemon juice made them the best week-span of lunches i've had since january.)

also: the 2-cubic-feet glob of milk chocolate (with hints of raspberry and coffee) we got a month or so ago is chunking away into intense and thick hot chocolate. very sweet.

made a simple syrup, and steeped rosemary as it cooled. with the lemons i picked in california made rosemary lemonade. delicious. breakfast was such as runny-yolked eggs with cheese and grain-based meat (" ") on potato bread.

my friend kris came by with dumpster booty in the form of fusili and penne-- we've now got a 5-gallon bucket overflowing with pasta. come get some, whoever you are.