i have one more can of tomato sauce to use up for pizzas and 3 pitas left over that i'm going to use for a leftover meal of bison meat quesadillas, but i need to order some more groceries first. i'm out of olives for the pizza and don't have key quesadilla ingredients.

i'm going to jump ahead tonight and make another batch of broccoli soup. i have my new blender in and it's a substantively more powerful motor. i think i just put too much in the smaller one and it seized.  bought it in 2014, so it lasted a long time, for the $10 i paid. i have two coffee makers (pot and single serve) and will buy another cheap one person blender, too. smoothies are no longer a key part of my diet, they've been replaced by orange juice, but i may revisit that.

this broccoli soup is a work in progress. let me remind myself:

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- put the bacon on first. i'm using an entire 375 g pack.

- take a full package of oxo cubes and let it sit in a bowl with water, stirring until it dissolves. this will be intense beef gravy.

- chop up broccoli florets

- chop up an entire bulb of garlic

- chop up 75 g of kale stalks

- chop up thawed or defrosted broccoli stalks and put them in a blender.

- add chopped up citrus peels

- add unflavoured, unsweetened soy milk

- blend a little, just to cut it up a bit

- use a very big frying pan

- start with olive oil margarine

- i'm chopping up kale stalks instead of celery. fry them in the margarine for two minutes, covered.

- add the entire bulb of chopped garlic. another two minutes, covered.

- add the blended mix with a 1/2 box of vegetable or chicken broth (500 ml) and the bowl of dissolved oxo cubes

- add the chopped broccoli florets

 - let this come to a boil (uncovered)

- cook it covered on reduced heat for 15 minutes 

- cook for another fifteen minutes on increased heat, until it's boiling again

while it's cooking, put the following in a bowl:

- chopped fresh dill

- two avocados (chopped)

- also, grate some cheese (200 g monterrey jack, 200 g mozzarella, 200 g cheddar, 200 g marble)

- chop up some bread (this time, i'm using up the remaining sourdough)

- put the contents of the pan in the bowl

- put the bacon with the grease and oil in the bowl

- add the following: 

- frank's

- pepper

- cayenne

- oregano

- cumin

- paprika

- dried dill

- add bread

- add cheese

- microwave or broil to melt cheese (i'm broiling)

when done, add the following on top:

- nutritional yeast

- hemp seeds

- ceasar

- fresh broccoli florets

the last load of laundry from the pile of clothes in the bathroom just finished. i still have some laundry to do, but that's the bulk of it. i just need to finish caulking in the bathroom, and do a bit around the kitchen, and then i can spend the next two-three days in the shower cleaning myself, put on some clean clothes and spend some time typing.

i have four out of nine rooms essentially set up, but this is a weird space. yes, there's nine separate spaces in here, not including the furnace room or water heater closet. four of them are rooms with doors and the other five are distinct enclaves in a continuous space that is shaped sort like an H. there are five segments in an H, two on each of the vertical sections and the horizontal section. the other four rooms behind doors fall off of the H. there's still a lot of work to do, including work to do in each of the four cleaned spaces, but i can put that off for a few more days.