It's TDE tangerine season! I bucked highway and bridge traffic and made my way to and from the only store in the greater vicinity where I can get them. Bought a case. Some of them, I've snarfed down in the manner of Cookie Monster. 16 of them gave a quart of juice, which I've frozen in 2-cup flat zipper bags for use in future sorbets and sherbets and ice creams. I sliced some and put 'em in the dehydrator (french toast futures). Also in the dehydrator: the zest peeled off the ones I was about to juice – take a look at my zest art, d'apres "Starry Night".

Some tangerines had developed soft spots by the time I got round to it, so I cut those off and put the good segments in the dehydrator. That was last night; this morning I found the segments' outer membranes had gone dry, still encapsulating most of each segment's juice. I slashed each segment, folded them open bookwise, and returned them to the dehydrator. I reckon those membranes aren't done making a nuisance of themselves; we'll see.

@rigger