Jayne: We was just about to spring into action, Captain. Complicated escape and rescue op. Wash: I was going to watch. It was very exciting.

'Shindig'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - Oct 14, 2012 4:30:16 pm PDT #25692 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

sometimes your adventures in ER land sound like a really sadistic version of Groundhog Day.

As long as I don't have to make out with Andie, I might be coming out ahead, now that I think about it. But yeah, remarkable reset button powers these people have. Maybe they're huffing that amnesia inducing painkiller.


Jesse - Oct 14, 2012 4:30:55 pm PDT #25693 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Zucchini would come with (at least some of) its own moisture, wouldn't it?

Yep.


shrift - Oct 14, 2012 4:58:04 pm PDT #25694 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

My fave way to eat kale.

Speaking of kale. I got another huge bunch of it in my CSA yesterday, so tonight I made a vat of kale and white bean soup with andouille sausage.


Strix - Oct 14, 2012 5:16:17 pm PDT #25695 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Zucchini would come with (at least some of) its own moisture, wouldn't it? The All Bran recipes take a lot of extra liquid, and also measures the make the ersatz wood mushy enough to cook with. Bran flakes might be easier.

Grated zukes are very moist; in fact, you usually have to press liquid out before you use it. I haven't cooked with bran, so I don't know how much it would suck up liquid. But zucchini bread is very moist and delicious, freezes very well.


smonster - Oct 14, 2012 5:30:18 pm PDT #25696 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

so tonight I made a vat of kale and white bean soup with andouille sausage.

Ohhhh, that's yum.


Kat - Oct 14, 2012 5:31:05 pm PDT #25697 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Dry Brine turkey basics: [link] Williams Sonoma has one for $16 [link] but we buy one at fresh and easy for $2.99 and it's excellent. We dry brine whole chickens, chicken breasts, pork, you name it.

And you can dry brine while defrosting, which is excellent. Just be sure to rinse the brine from the meat before you put it in the oven.


§ ita § - Oct 14, 2012 6:10:26 pm PDT #25698 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Kat, can you dry brine just for the chemistry not for the saline flavour? I don't see those sources mentioning steaks--is that a coincidental omission, or deliberate?

The muffin recipe called for half a cup of shredded carrot--maybe I'll start by doubling that, and halving the sugar, and maybe wedging one or two pineapple chunks in each one. I could probably add half a cup of crumbled bran flakes and one or two extra ounces of crushed pineapple.


Burrell - Oct 14, 2012 6:57:36 pm PDT #25699 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

ita, what about adding flax meal? Although I suppose it's the same texture as the bran, so never mind.


Connie Neil - Oct 14, 2012 7:39:18 pm PDT #25700 of 30001
brillig

I just mentioned dry brining to Hubby, and he shrugged and said, "It would never get through the skin." What say the people who have actually done this?


DavidS - Oct 14, 2012 8:02:22 pm PDT #25701 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

and he shrugged and said, "It would never get through the skin."

This is a well tested approach, so...it does.