Category Archives: Dairy

The Difference Between Pasteurized and Ultra-pasteurized Milk

By Drew | Published: February 24, 2010

A reader asked me recently if the pasteurized milk in her grocery store would work for making yogurt. The directions said not to use ultra-pasteurized, is that the same thing? The short answer is no, pasteurized and ultra-pasteurized are not the same thing. And the “regular” pasteurized your grocery store most-likely carries will work for yogurt. This [...]

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How To Make Yogurt

By Drew | Published: February 12, 2010

I’ve got a quick one here from Larry, the Keep It Simple Engineer. He’s the same guy who did the sourdough bread recipe. Today he shows how easy it is to make your own yogurt. Take it away, Larry.

Also posted in Technique | 13 Comments

Asiago Cheese Crisps

By Drew | Published: February 4, 2010

This came from a sandwich my wife had when she went for tea with our daughters and her mother. She described it to me — and by the way, yes she tells me how great the food was when she comes back from tea … and no I still don’t want to go to tea [...]

How To Make A Banana Smoothie

By Drew | Published: February 20, 2009

There’s really not much to a banana smoothie. I don’t know how stores can stay in business doing nothing but throwing fruit and milk in a blender and charging four bucks each for it. Oh, wait … I think that four bucks each might be the secret. Okay, so what I don’t get is why would [...]

Also posted in Breakfast, Drink | 15 Comments

Heluva Funny Label

By Drew | Published: October 27, 2008

I noticed a while back that I had to be careful to check the ingredients even on things that seem like you can’t mess with them. Like cream. Lots of “heavy whipping cream” has added stabilizers and other stuff added so that it will whip up better. Not that it’s hard to whip real cream, [...]

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