It is as simple as that, come up with your own mixture and season your bird two days before you will cook. I cannot stress this enough because eating dry chicken, season-less chicken breast is akin to a punishment so pleas, please, season your chicken.
And whilst we are at it; test your new recipes, if you want to take the time to perfect a new recipe or try a variation of it, this is the time, you have time to replace the ingredients or make notes, but test out the recipes you will be serving over the holiday and whilst you’re at it, make sure your boiler works so there are no surprises there.