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Making use of what I have

Trump won the presidency again. I can't fucking believe it. 

My spoons are all gone, and I am clinging onto any semblance of normalcy. I went on an amazing behind-the-scenes tour of The Bureau escape room today through Slice, which was a very pleasant distraction. And when I came home I was starving.

I haven't done a full grocery run in a while, and I'm running out of food in weird phases. I think partially because Kerri is using certain foods inconsistently. Like I am suddenly out of all my butter lettuce and I know I didn't use all of it. And no matter what I eat this week, I am never full. Not sure if it's the adjustment to my medicine, the stress of work, or it's just one of those weeks. 

Either way, I didn't have the time or energy to go grocery shopping after the escape room, and I didn't want to buy dinner again (I got Japanese food last night and used some of it for lunch today); so I Googled recipes for the odd foods that I still knew I had in the fridge. That strangely included dill. I don't know why I had dill, but I did, and I barely used any of it.


All the recipes I found were soup based and used coconut milk, which I ran out of the other day. I didn't want to buy more because it's expensive and I didn't want to go to the store at 9:30 p.m., so I kept looking and eventually found a Polish recipe that looked really interesting. It used potatoes, which I also didn't have any of and I'm a bit sick of using potatoes in my soup; but it said you could substitute it with pasta or rice. I just so happened to bought some really fun Halloween pasta the other day and thought that could be a good substitute. 

It turned out that it was! I made the same mistake as last time, even though I tried not to, in that the pasta absorbed all the water and just ended up as a giant thing of pasta. Definitely learned my lesson this time. 

It ended up being totally delicious! I've never had a soup that tasted anything like this before. I typed it up in my Google drive recipe folder and I'm going to print it out at work so I can put it in my recipe book. I really loved it and will be excited to make it again the next time I have dill or want something a little unique. 

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