I've had enough yogurt...lets try making some!

If you've read my previous post, you know I had all 4 wisdom teeth removed and have been living with the misery these past few days. I had done ample preparation prior to my operation.
I had bought:

• Apple sauce
• Pudding snack packs (chocolate and vanilla swirl and vanilla)
• Ice Cream (Double Vanilla)
• Yogurt
• Eggs (for scrambled eggs)
• Milk (which I thought was Soy Milk at the time...OK so I don't always read carefully :))
• Odwalla Superfood (Jug size)

Every thing that was mushy and easy to eat...I even considered baby food! OK so maybe I did freak out about it too much...I almost felt that I could eat a burger on Friday (more on this later).

I actually got sucked into Kitchen Nightmares on Hulu. After not watching TV for 3 years I guess I've been sort of living under a rock. That Gordon Ramsay huh? Sure can yell. Anyway I looked up some of his recipes on Youtube and tried his recipe for scrambled eggs. His recipe called for beating the eggs in the pan with some butter and constant stirring, almost like a risotto. It was quite nice...the eggs turned out really fluffy, perfect for a person in my condition.

Other than that, my sustenance came from pudding snacks (healthy I know) and ice cream (even healthier!) and apple sauce. I did attempt to eat some ramen which turned out alright but I digress.

The main reason for this post is that I'm trying to figure out what to do with the half-gallon of whole milk I bought by accident. Being unfamiliar with the Kroger I grabbed the milk next to the vanilla soy milk (I hate flavored soy milk!) and thought it was just plain soy milk! I am lactose intolerant so I'm not crazy about the thought of having to drink it. I thought about baking something with it...but the oven in the house I'm renting is kinda groady...very groady! The owners melted aluminum foil! How do you melt aluminum foil in an oven???!

So I've decided to try my hand at making yogurt! Its healthy and the bacteria produces lactase so I won't have any lactose intolerance issues...hopefully.

I did some research online and found a great many sites detailing how to make yogurt, which doesn't seem that difficult at all!

The first site I checked out was MakeYourOwnYogurt. It provides all the necessary steps for making your own yogurt...but like the good little researcher, I never stop at the first one. Other sites used were wikiHow and BeanSprouts although I'm wondering about the thermos. It sounds like a great idea but from everything I've read, the bacteria need to breathe...isn't a thermos airtight? I'm going to be attempting to make a Greek style yogurt where a lot of the liquid is drained off. I'm planning on using this in cooking to substitute for sour cream and creme fraiche.

More on this process in the next post!