Tanka Tuesday

Hi, well its the last Tuesday and the last day of February – almost Spring 🙂

This week’s challenge in Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday is a bit spicy! #TankaTuesday – We have to choose a spice from our kitchen, and relate its flavour to an event that happened in our life recently.

Curcuma longa

Asia had the advantages of Turmeric for centuries long before it touched European shores. First used as a dye, the vibrant orangey- yellow powder is used to colour the robes of monks and priests as it is viewed as auspicious and sacred. Later for its beneficial properties in folk medicine and of course in cookery. A couple of weeks ago a few members of the family started with the onset of colds – so I reached for the spice rack…

so to ward off chills

cup of warm turmeric tea

winter’s protection

A J Wilson ©

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