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It’s cool this morning. Clear. Which is welcome, because yesterday we had cold rain, the sort that just seeps into your bones and freezes a body in place.
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I have ribs on the pellet grill this morning. I use the 3-2-1 method. Three hours on the grill, two hours steamed, one hour for the glaze to set.
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I put just a bit of seasoning (salt, pepper, garlic) on the ribs this morning and put them on the grill. After the first forty-five minutes, I’ll start spritzing the ribs every fifteen minutes for the first three hours. Spritz mixture is pineapple juice, tamari, maple syrup, rum, and water.
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After three hours, I’ll wrap the ribs in aluminum foil. Make a boat for them, pour in the remaining of the spritz mixture, then cover. Steam the ribs for two hours.
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Once the two hours is up, I’ll put the ribs directly on the grill again and glaze them. I have a pineapple chutney that I made yesterday for the glaze. Then, it depends on how done the ribs are. Sometimes I just let the glaze set for fifteen minutes. Other times, I let the ribs cook for the full last hour.
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My ribs generally turn out tender and delicious. I don’t cook them a lot, though, because they’re a lot of work.
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Here’s the current cook, just before I start spritzing them.
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We went to a birthday party last night, talked with a lot of writers and artists. Spent a little bit of time chatting with a woman who’d just turned 70.
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I discovered that I need to adjust my attitude. Though I’m now 63, that isn’t old. Not like, OLD old, ya know?
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Yet 70, wow. That’s ancient.
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Chatting with this woman gave me much more hope that I can do the same, be as vividly alive as she is at 70, writing and editing and having a good time.
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Because my writing is still bringing me so much joy. Finished the novel. Almost done with the first short story. I have two more to write, so I figure all next week is short stories. Then during Christmas week, I’ll start the next novel. Will write a lot those two weeks, or at least that’s the current plan.
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Anyway – I hope that your current holiday is as stress free as possible.
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Hey! It's December! Ice & Berries is now generally available!
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A cozy fantasy tale of friendship, work, and going out into the world. Oh, and snow cones!
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When the Ice Elf Elbriarien Itamar—or just El, for short—fails to get her Mage Mark after her apprenticeship, she decides to leave the frozen north and head south.
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Someplace where snow doesn't stay piled up in corners during the heat of summer. Maybe walk barefoot in the sand next to the ocean. Perhaps even chuck out all her learning and take work in a bar. (A fate worse than death, at least according to her parents.)
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However, without her Mage Mark, El cannot legally practice spells or do complicated magic. Just little things, cantrips native to her Ice Elf heritage.
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Join her as she makes her way in a new life and a new city, finding friends, business opportunities, a love of snow cones, and perhaps, if she's lucky, a sapphic love as well.
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To celebrate the publication of my new cozy fantasy novel, my first cozy fantasy novel is now on sale for $0.99!
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The spell to transform Killian the champion fails. Instead of a worm, he’s transformed into a wyrm. Swell. Now what? Thus begins the story of Talon the dragon and his eventual battle with a god. Or something like that. It’s a lovely cozy fantasy filled with humor, found family, gods and myths, and breaking of the fourth wall.
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Also, to celebrate Blaze Ward's latest Science Officer novel, Exile, which is available now on the KRP site (after Dec 10th everywhere else), we've put the first Science Officer Omnibus on sale for just $2.99.
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Javier will survive the pirates. Will they survive him?
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