Yogurt
Yogurts (Dairy Odyssey: Part 2)
I have been on a dairy kick since the cheese-making class I took a few weeks ago. After having made butter, I was all jazzed to make other things from the class and started on the yogurts a few days ago. Since I had such a hard time with yogurt previously, I asked Linda about some ways I can try to improve and wanted to try out her suggestions. So, one of the yogurts I made is based on her recipe and the other is an attempt to improve upon my experimentation from last fall. The yogurt Linda talked about is based on the Piima culture she gave out in class. I’m always looking for “Greek style” yogurt, the kind that’s really, really thick and...
Read MoreHome-made crock-pot yogurt
YIPPEE! Finally, SUCCESS! You see, I have been trying to make home-made crock-pot yogurt ever since I read Sofya’s post on this. This is my fourth attempt. Another thing you probably know about me by now is that I really can’t follow directions. Which is why it has taken so long for me to come to some semblance of yogurt in my crock-pot. I know it doesn’t look like much, and it probably looks kinda icky. But it’s yogurt. On my first attempt, I got fairly close, but it was too liquidy. On my second and third attempts, it was complete failure. I had just really hot milk at the end of the process. On the third time, I re-heated it and...
Read MoreFood-related goals
I’m a big fan of goals. I love New Year’s resolutions, personal goals, career goals, reading goals, traveling goals, etc. This year, I’m adding a food goal to my list. This might sound funny to some of you, but yes, I’m adding a culinary goal to my life. You see, I have an absolutely unnatural and irrational fear of baking. I know, strange. No good reason for it. Other than perhaps the fear of the mess I’d make, but my kitchen always looks like a tornado went through it after I’m done cooking. But baking towering cakes doesn’t really appeal to me and I’ve never been a dessert person (well, until a few years...
