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I had a long entry written about the chicken I was cooking last night- an Ina Garten recipe, the one with lemon and thyme in the chicken cavity on a bed of veggies, which does make the house smell marvellous. But then my tablet turned itself off and on again and of course DW's auto-save doesn't. So I went and compiled that 100 Influential Books meme, cudgelling brains for things from childhood and adolescence and forgetting obvious ones like Tolkien and The Three Musketeers. And then my tablet ran out of battery so I didn't post it anywhere.
As for the chook recipe, note that no, do not cut the veg large because the carrots and potatoes and even some of the parsnips will not be done, not if you have a scant four pound bird that cooks for only an hour. Maybe a larger bird would work, but Happy Hen chickens cost so I got the smallest size. (Happy Hen aka Rowe Farms also does rotisserie, somehow larger bird for less money, but home-cooked is better.) And whatever my meat thermometer said about done-ness at the thigh, the breast today looked raw, so I gave it another half hour. Also no, there is no gravy to be had either: juices all go into the veg, which I don't mind but won't work if I ever cook this for someone else.
Today did not rain, for a change, so I took a library book back just for the walk, and as well I did, because my branch will be closed Wednesday and Thursday so they can finally fix the sliding doors that stopped sliding yonks ago. Bits of greenery start to spring up in the neighbourhood yards and someone down Barton has a whole yard of snowdrops, hidden by their evergreen fence. Had vague thoughts of raking some of last year's leaves out of the median strip between me and NND so our own shy buds have room to come up, but I believe you're supposed to leave the ground cover in place for the insects-is-it? to do their thing. And anyway, they're saying snow again this week.
As for the chook recipe, note that no, do not cut the veg large because the carrots and potatoes and even some of the parsnips will not be done, not if you have a scant four pound bird that cooks for only an hour. Maybe a larger bird would work, but Happy Hen chickens cost so I got the smallest size. (Happy Hen aka Rowe Farms also does rotisserie, somehow larger bird for less money, but home-cooked is better.) And whatever my meat thermometer said about done-ness at the thigh, the breast today looked raw, so I gave it another half hour. Also no, there is no gravy to be had either: juices all go into the veg, which I don't mind but won't work if I ever cook this for someone else.
Today did not rain, for a change, so I took a library book back just for the walk, and as well I did, because my branch will be closed Wednesday and Thursday so they can finally fix the sliding doors that stopped sliding yonks ago. Bits of greenery start to spring up in the neighbourhood yards and someone down Barton has a whole yard of snowdrops, hidden by their evergreen fence. Had vague thoughts of raking some of last year's leaves out of the median strip between me and NND so our own shy buds have room to come up, but I believe you're supposed to leave the ground cover in place for the insects-is-it? to do their thing. And anyway, they're saying snow again this week.
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The lemon and thyme are in fact only there for flavouring, but the juices are supposed to cook the veg and then make gravy. So either I didn't havea big enough bird or I added too many veg, or probably both.