I keep putting off an entire rant that it would be unwise to post so here’s my GOOD news….
Continue reading “Friday Flotsam: Big round numbers”Reading Wednesday: Weighty Stuff
I’ve worked my way through all but one of the novels in the pile, and the CJ Box book I’ve been waiting for only just came in.
Continue reading “Reading Wednesday: Weighty Stuff”Moving Monday: from Canada to Chile
My step challenges press on… and so I left behind the virtual West Coast Trail…
Continue reading “Moving Monday: from Canada to Chile”Friday Flotsam: Revisiting Ireland
It’s been a week and then some but it’s also St Patrick’s Day… so let’s quickly revisit …
Continue reading “Friday Flotsam: Revisiting Ireland”Reading Wednesday: Two Novels. Two Not.
This week‘s completed reading includes…
Continue reading “Reading Wednesday: Two Novels. Two Not.”Moving Mondays: Rohan to Helm’s Deep, and the West Coast
After peddling my little legs off (necessitating a reduction in daily miles to save my aching knee), I finished The Conqueror’s Lord of the Rings Rohan mission and move on the Helm’s Deep.
Continue reading “Moving Mondays: Rohan to Helm’s Deep, and the West Coast”Friday Flotsam: Endless Varieties of Roasted Chicken
It began of course with the basics. Thyme as the primary seasoning.
Always the roasted chicken is stuffed with onions – for flavoring the meat though it’s fine to eat some too. Usually there are potatoes, often carrots, last time, plantains.
Since then it’s a rotation of flavorings.
Lemon, infused with thyme.
Home-roasted garlic butter under the skin.
Or Berbere and other seasonings, an Ethiopian flair.
Or this week, with a jollof seasoning rub from Ghana.
A roasted chicken is a great excuse to invite the folks over, to share a meal. Plus all the leftovers to enjoy for days after.
Do you have a favorite way to season a chicken for roasting? Let me know in the comments. I’m always tweaking to make something otherwise basic into something new.

Reading Wednesday: This Week’s Books
I’ve been reading all week.
Among this week’s entries were 2 of a 4 book series by Octavia Butler — but when I went to start book 3 I realized that books 1 and 2 stood alone and I didn’t have to continue in order to get something from the story. And it felt like it was already full. So I didn’t continue.
Continue reading “Reading Wednesday: This Week’s Books”Moving Monday: Virtual Brazil to Virtual British Columbia
It look me a bit longer than it should have, but in a final push I did finish it this week: Virtual Estrada Real
Continue reading “Moving Monday: Virtual Brazil to Virtual British Columbia”Travels Revisited: Niagara Falls
Just because sometimes a little travel-related flotsam is needed after a tough week.
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