I was trying something different for making bread. Wife wanted fajitas. We compromised.

Mushrooms, pork steak, bell pepper, onion, carrot, broccoli, homemade chilli powder and some cumin.

Tortillas are definitely easier to work with for fajitas but the bread was really tasty.

Blackberries are coming into season. These are volunteers so they are a touch on the astringent side, not great for raw eating. Sugar helps cut that so last year I made a lot of blackberry jam. I probably have enough to get through this year so I'm looking for alternative ideas for long term storage. If not I'll make more jam.

This year won't be a big harvest as we cut down so much last year. This means there won't be enough to make wine.

Angel hair with just enough tomato, garlic, olive oil, parm and home grown basil to stop it from being flavorless.

Pasta was like 80¢ per person Focaccia was about 90¢ per person. Can you order this anywhere? Yes.

Roasted potatoes, tomato soup, eggs, peppers and emergency goat cheese.

I roasted the potatoes, transferred them to a pot, took some of the balsamic tomato soup from yesterday and poured it in to simmer for a bit.

Eggs free, potatoes $1.89 for 5 pounds, tomatoes free. So using up my emergency goat cheese ($2), time to rotate stock, was the largest expense.

Cost per person: $1.30 Can you order this anywhere? No.

Whichever of you wanted potatoes in the tomato soup got your wish. Sort of.

It's taken a few days but the tomato soup is finally done. We ended up with about four quarts. We ate two of them today. Send more tomatoes.

Cost per person: $1.20 per person. Mostly in bread and cheese since the tomatoes were free and we used cheap balsamic in the soup. Can you order this anywhere? Of course. But also no.

My wife found 12 pounds of vine ripe tomatoes and decided we need to make some tomato soup. But that's for tomorrow. Today is some mac and cheese and a perogadilla. Both topped with a bit of fresh made pico de gallo.

I remember when I was a teenager and I actually read the box of mac and cheese. It suggested putting one tablespoon salsa in a batch. It seemed like not enough but I followed the directions and it was amazing.

Cost per person: $1.60 per person.

Pizza. Leftover birria, smoked mozzarella, serrano, jarred sauce and hand made crust.

Probably too much serrano.

Cost per person, $2.79? New category? "Can you buy this anywhere?" No. No you can't.

What Idiocracy lacked was politicians arguing with AI, and losing.

Each company has its own AI implementation. Almost all are known for insane hallucinations, becoming racist within hours or repeating reddit jokes as fact.

But Musk's Grok is fundamentally different and doesn't get enough credit for that. We can see when somebody tries to tinker with it because it always calls out the tinkering. It repeatedly tells crazy people that they're crazy but doesn't have false positives. I don't know who was hired to train Grok but they did a truly amazing job and they deserve credit where credit is due.

There's a term that used to exist within my lifetime that has almost completely vanished. Ombudsman. They served as the internal conscience of an organization. During my lifetime all internal conscience has disappeared. It is cheaper to hire a crisis management consultant after something has gone wrong and use every legal and psychological trick to make the problem go away. I'm looking at you Wells Fargo. But here's Grok fighting the good fight against its own maintainers.

Also, MTG is legit, tots, no cap, Ohio dumb. I want to see her on a gameshow that requires knowledge of any kind.

Potato and cheese Perogies? Quesadillas? Perogadillas? Someone in one of my cooking groups posted something like this and I had to try it. It blended my need for Mexican with my wife's need for perogies. San Diego meets Pennsylvania.

Made a Mexican lime slaw and bought a can of charro beans. Made some guajillo sauce too.

I have no idea how much this cost per person because there are so many parts but other than that can of fancy beans for $2 and a head of cabbage that I only used a quarter of every part of this was stuff I already keep on hand as staples. I can make the mashed potatoes in advance and freeze them. The mashed potatoes need to be a little on the dry side like you are making a bubble and squeak which works better for freezing anyway. The guajillo can also be made ahead of time to shorten cooking day time. I can can my own charro beans for way cheaper.

It's been decided to put this into regular rotation.

When you see words like "legitimate" and "legal" in front of "citizen" this implies the speaker thinks there are other types of citizens. Which makes them unqualified to discuss civics. These people think their opinion matters more than rule of law. They can't be trusted. There are citizens, natural born citizens that can run for president, green card holders, and a whole dazzling list of other things but there are no illegitimate or illegal citizens.

Greek salad without lettuce.

We like our salads without lettuce, except Caesar. A little chicken on the side.

Cost per person, $13. Literally as much as the steak from the other day. This is why society is doomed.