The most important concern with yogurt is to maintain a constant incubation temperature of about 110ºF (43ºC). This is the temperature that those friendly bacteria become the most active. There are several ways to do this depending on the season and where you live in the world.
Simply use as much milk as you want yogurt. I generally like to make a couple large jars as I use yogurt for many things – including a morning fruit smoothie to keep the bacterial garden in my intestines growing in a healthy manner.
Generally, I measure the milk into the jar intended for incubating and then pour this into a pan, and heat. When using industrial dairy milk be sure to bring the milk to a boil before cooling it down to around 115ºF. When I was making yogurt with the milk pictured above, I only heated it to around 140ºF. I have never tasted such disgusting yogurt as what resulted. Clearly some undesirable bacteria that were already in the milk hadn’t been destroyed before I added the yogurt culture.
Chicken broth is a practical and affordable addition to any diet. Broths and stocks provide powerful nourishment. Organic chicken legs are generally a reasonable price and sometimes even cheaper than buying the whole chicken. You can leave the skin on if you like. I like to fry the chicken ski ...
This dish is known in Myanmar as Bachelor's Chicken Curry. Traditionally young men would steal the chicken and other ingredients if hunger overtook them while out on a romp. In their haste to cook the meal over an impromptu fire, garlic cloves were pounded and thrown in, skin and all. On occasi ...
Serves 4 1inch ginger, pounded
6 cloves garlic, pounded
1 medium onion, sliced and pounded
3 tomatoes, pureed
1T oil or more if necessary
½ t turmeric
1t chili powder (or more to taste)
12-16 large prawns
salt or fish sauce to taste Method:
Prepare the curry gravy by pounding the ...
This recipe will make about two weeks worth of balachaung for about 4 people, using it as a condiment. Usually I make this if I know I am going to be too busy to cook the next coming weeks, or if I am broke. This way I can simply cook up some rice and have a simple nutritious meal with rice and ba ...
Originally published in Healthy Options, July 2004, New Zealand Perhaps the oldest seed utilized by man, sesame has been used for thousands of years as medicine, food and to light lamps. Although the first written record of sesame is 3,000 BC, Assyrian mythology gives sesame a role in the origins ...
Originally published in Healthy Options, November 2003, New Zealand It is uncertain where the first wild apple was cultivated to eventually produce the sweet and fleshy apple of today. From that small, sour, seed filled apple we now have more than 5,000 named apple varieties. Apples have been eat ...
