Digging new brain channels
Blogging is a new experience for me. Now that most of my friends and I are "over the hill" in our 50s, we've become concerned about keeping our brains functioning. One piece of advice we've gathered from "experts" is to keep learning new things. Figuring out how to write and post a blog is definitely up there with playing Scrabble,making a new friend, balancing the checkbook, teaching from different textbooks each semester, rearranging the furniture and driving home by various routes. Ruts are unwelcome. Pushing comfort zones keeps new brain channels forming and life more interesting. It's like reaping the benefits of crop rotation. . .
Yesterday, while Christmas shopping, I found a package of four mini tagines, those volcano-shaped middle-eastern cooking pots. Each tagine is about 4-5 inches across. Adorable and tempting. Of course I bought them. Now what will I cook in them? Something my four-year-old grandson will want to eat, of course. Individual servings of pork cooked slowly in a savory BBQ sauce? A chicken thigh cooked with lemon and olives? I'll haunt my cookbook library this afternoon. Any suggestions from readers?