Yogurt

I put yogurt in pancakes/waffles, muffins, granola, smoothies etc. Plain, no fat yogurt. The kind I like can be $6 or more for a 750 ml tub, so I recently started making my own again. Two things brought this on:

1) we bought an electric blanket to warm up the bed before crashing for the night.

2) after bone density scan last summer, docs recommended 1000 IU of Vitamin D daily and more dietary calcium.

I used to use powdered skim milk very cheaply, but in my town now powdered milk costs about the same as bags of ready-to-use skim milk (about $1/litre).

I just made three large jars of yogurt for about $2.50 in milk and a little time (mostly waiting for the milk to cool):

Simple instructions:

Buy a candy thermomenter.

Heat milk up to "scalding" - 150F on my thermometer.

Let it cool to 110F.

Poor the milk into jars.

Add 2 tablespoons of plain yogurt into each jar and stir well.

Wrap the jars in the electric blanket. Set the blanket on high.

Leave for 7 or 8 hours. Ta Da

My electric blanket shuts itself off after three hours, so I had to check it a few times and make sure it was on.

Aside from saving $15-$20, it's nice to have lots of yogurt available to put in the dishes mentioned above, it's delicious, and I made it.

I'd love to do a photo-essay of the process, but I still can't seem to easily turn my phone pics into jpegs (tried imgur) that come up on hubski as pics instead of just links. Help welcome.