Smoke gets in your eyes … but exhaust fumes get up your nose.
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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.

That first pause
It was difficult to let the 1128 day posting streak go. It was difficult… and then it wasn’t.
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I was never a person who read more than one book at a time. And I was never a person who would quit on a book.
Or so I would tell myself.
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The Bloganuary prompt the other day was on poetry. A poem or song that speaks to you.
Continue reading “Poems”Even More Thankful
I was downstairs, on the phone with S, pedaling my overdue miles, when I heard an unholy sound. A high-pitched alarm sound.
Continue reading “Even More Thankful”Too interesting
A severely time laggged post
If something happens at the school behind my place – say for instance a bomb scare occurs – apparently I live in the red zone. Care to guess how I know that?
Continue reading “Too interesting”Transit Back to the Grind
Now that I’ve worked through all my prescheduled flotsam to cover my “away” time, here’s the real news, now on a lag.
Continue reading “Transit Back to the Grind”Unexpected houseplants
The other day I needed a green onion for a recipe.
Just one.
They don’t sell them as just one here though. I got a small package of 6-7.
Continue reading “Unexpected houseplants”Daylily days
It’s that time of year. Only a few of the day lilies here are blooming but in a few days it should be quite a riot of color at the top of my hill. Where I can’t see them without effort , but even so.
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