Yogurt Throw Down 2006
Vanessa graciously agreed to host our first yogurt off at her apartment on Sunday. We all brought our latest creations from our new yogurt makers and compared the results. Vanessa offered a whole milk yogurt with a Fage starter. Mindy brought skim milk with a starter from her last batch of yogurt (which began at some point in a Stonyfield container). I tried my hand at a whole milk honey flavored yogurt with apples and walnuts, which I started with a mysterious Greek yogurt from Sahadi’s.
Everything tasted fatastic, especially with all the topings we brought along, including pomegranate seeds, dried cherries, almonds, and granola. Mindy also surprised with an amazing dessert made from yogurt. Her strained yogurt and brown sugar pie with a pecan crust was amazing and our heads were spinning with all the new possibilities for our yogurt.
As a side note, each of our partners, apparently competitive men, all, was very concered about who actually won. We insisted it was more of a yogurt tasting, not a competition, but truth be told, I think Vanessa won. Her yogurt was nice and creamy with a very mild taste. I have to admit mine was a bit thin and we couldn’t taste the honey as much as I had hoped.
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how about serving your yummy yogurts in handmade ceramic jars? check out this site that shows early french ceramic yogurt jars (ignore the annoying flashing text bits). i can’t even handle some of the shapes… so cute and so simple! i swear yogurt tastes better from a little glass or ceramic jar. could you combine your love of yogurt with that of ceramics… wink wink, nudge nudge? http://perso.orange.fr/yaourtophile/ceramique.htm
oh, not only are the so cute… but it makes me wish i could taste all the different types of yogurt that used to be in there.
i’ll make my fortune in yogurt jars! if it only warms up enough to let me go outside and get the the pottery studio.