Trudy, I've brined and fridge-dried. 24 hours I think is optimum for the drying... and ~8 hours for the brining (we do it overnight)
Don't worry about the butterflying, that's sort of a niche technique (though delicious!) but brining is everywhere.
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Spike's Bitches 33: Weeping, crawling, blaming everybody else
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Nora Deirdre - Nov 17, 2006 8:21:46 am PST #2044 of 10004
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Tom Scola - Nov 17, 2006 8:23:57 am PST #2045 of 10004
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Happy Birthday Jilli!!!
Steph L. - Nov 17, 2006 8:27:29 am PST #2046 of 10004
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Happiest and Battiest of Birthdays to the Lady of the Manners!!!!
Nora Deirdre - Nov 17, 2006 8:27:29 am PST #2047 of 10004
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Do you need tips, Trudy? Here's a classic (for me)...
you can run a search at foodtv.com or epicurious.com and find some different brines... there will be variations on flavoring of the brine, amounts of sugar/salt, etc.
I think last year we just did the one in the Big Book of ATK/CI Best Recipes. I recommend grabbing it from the library for Thanksgiving if you can get your hands on it. [link]
That's just us, though.
erikaj - Nov 17, 2006 8:31:48 am PST #2048 of 10004
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Happy Jilli Day!
Trudy Booth - Nov 17, 2006 8:33:58 am PST #2049 of 10004
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Hmm... I won't have 24 hours to dry.
I can brine for eight and dry overnight. Is it worth doing if I do it for 12 hours?
squeeeeeee!
I'm so excited.
Ailleann - Nov 17, 2006 8:35:21 am PST #2050 of 10004
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Bitches 34: I'm brining a turkey AIFG!
SailAweigh - Nov 17, 2006 8:35:24 am PST #2051 of 10004
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Happy Birthday, Jilli!!!
Steph L. - Nov 17, 2006 8:36:36 am PST #2052 of 10004
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I have way too much work, both 9-5 and freelance, and I'm SO OVER these cramps, and The Boy's ex is in town this weekend. Glurg.
This is the ex who is the polar opposite of me -- she's this outgoing, really bubbly, friendly extroverted person, and she's all dark curly hair Latina stunning, and she's, like, LEGENDARY and beautiful and everyone loves her. And The Boy lived with her for 4 years and almost married her.
Stressed? Me?
I'm this introverted, socially retarded misanthrope who would much rather read comics or a treatise on the semi-colon, for god's sake, than go be all bubbly and bouncy and effusive in a crowd of hundreds. And I'm, y'know, blonde and bland and pale and chubby fat and I'm cranky and difficult and make it really hard for people to even get to know me, much less love me, and I have huge issues that make me an emotional minefield.
So this should be quite the weekend.
Typo Boy - Nov 17, 2006 8:37:55 am PST #2053 of 10004
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Hippo Birdies Jilli.
Trudy - back before we became health conscious our family had a tradition of basting turkeys with our own recipe which was butter, rum, and honey. Just about every nutritional no-no possible, but it tasted good and was never dry.