I’m making my own yogurt now, and I’m soooo addicted! Nearly every morning I have homemade yogurt with granola. The sweet and crunchy granola plus the creamy and slightly sour yogurt make a perfect combination. And knowing that I made it myself makes it all the more delicious.

Pictured here is my first attempt at fruity yogurt. The three in front are plain but the four in back have cherry jam. The cherry ones weren’t that great really, but I’ll keep trying. I bought a pineapple so I can try real fruit rather than jam.

For those who aren’t familiar with the mystery of yogurt making, it goes like this:

Yogurt = milk + yogurt

which can be re-written as:

Yogurt = milk + (milk + yogurt)

which can further be re-written as:

Yogurt = milk + (milk + (milk + yogurt))

Keep going as long as you want until you end up with just milk.

The yogurt maker makes it easy, but if you have some other way of keeping the mixture warm for 6-8 hours but not too warm to kill the culture, you can do it without any special device (maybe set a jar on the radiator?)

Anyway, thanks to Burt and Linda Cohen for the wedding gift. It took a while to really get into it, but I’ve probably gone through 2 gallons of it in the last couple months.