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.

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

Ohhhh, that's yum.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

The article says the dry brining gets way through the skin--they mention that it's not just the skin that's salted, it's the flesh. Which is why I don't think it's for me. If it was just making it tender and juicy, that'd be cool. I'm not as interested in salting.

Burrell, do you think flax would need the amount of hydrating that All Bran does? That's up to and including boiling water and overnight soaking.

Good Wife is nice and snarky tonight, but I'm pretty weirded out by what's happening between Kalinda and Marc Warren. When a relationship has too much consensual combat for me, I feel it's an extreme outlier, and I wonder what it looks like to people who don't do krav. At the very least I'd imagine there are some of the overbearing social justice types all twisty in their knickers. But the show's very title is so very heteronormative, even if it's the story of her liberation from that confining role.

Speaking of fandom--if you were an Xphile and a Noromo, were you against all ships, or just the big one? I mean, if you were (as is perfectly sane) shipping Mulder/Krycek or Scully/Skinner did you get that moniker?

I carefully did not have a muffin for dinner, but pasta instead.

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

Hubby prefers more detailed answers. I'll see if he cares enough to do further research.

Ginger, thanks for those exercises! I will try them out.

As a child, I used to lick the salt licks my dad put out for the cows (and deer) and I tried the sidewalk salt too, so I think salty is never gonna be a problem for me...