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Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 10:59 pmFrost warnings for the burbs tonight. Hardy me refuses to close her bedroom window again, but the city shouldn't get much below 5/ 40 in the wee hours and I'm back to winter rig- hoodie and socks and all- plus wool blankets and beanbags. Especially beanbags. This one anti-inflam a day is not working, though it was spasming myscles that did it today. So I went and bought gin which, well, didn't do that much, actually. Except fill my sinuses.
I bought an on-sale chicken yesterday and felt the need to cook it today, using Ina Garten's recipe that calls for stuffing the cavity with a bunch of thyme (literally a bunch) and a lemon cut in half and a clove of garlic ditto. I left out the garlic, partly because I'm not a fan and partly because I forgot to buy it, but also because itvwas a 3.5 pounder and not a 5 and there simply wasn't room for it. The chicken sits on top of various vegetables including carrotsm which I prudently parboiled in advance, and onions and fennel and potatoes. Getting all this sliced and diced was painful, and then I cut into my finger, and then I forgot the potatoes and had to take the chicken out of the oven to add them. But it got done and seems pretty good, though by the time it had cooked I wasn't hungry any more. Had some of the veg, since the whole point of the exercise was to make veg palatable. Which it was.
I bought an on-sale chicken yesterday and felt the need to cook it today, using Ina Garten's recipe that calls for stuffing the cavity with a bunch of thyme (literally a bunch) and a lemon cut in half and a clove of garlic ditto. I left out the garlic, partly because I'm not a fan and partly because I forgot to buy it, but also because itvwas a 3.5 pounder and not a 5 and there simply wasn't room for it. The chicken sits on top of various vegetables including carrotsm which I prudently parboiled in advance, and onions and fennel and potatoes. Getting all this sliced and diced was painful, and then I cut into my finger, and then I forgot the potatoes and had to take the chicken out of the oven to add them. But it got done and seems pretty good, though by the time it had cooked I wasn't hungry any more. Had some of the veg, since the whole point of the exercise was to make veg palatable. Which it was.
