Yogurt!

I read the blog SimpleBites in my Google reader and saw an explanation for making homemade yogurt on it not long ago.  Oliver's parents have made homemade yogurt for a long time - without a fancy yogurt maker - so I knew it could be done.  I even tried it in the last year.  I ended up with a quart of sour milk instead of yogurt.  This time, it worked.

The SimpleBites method suggests pouring the milk/yogurt mix into a saucepan and using a heating pad, towel, and maybe the oven to keep it warm.  I poured my milk/yogurt mix into a big thermal mug with a lid and set it on the top of the refrigerator.  And it worked!  I've got yogurt that tastes like Dannon!

Now I just need to wean the kids from vanilla yogurt with granola to plain yogurt with granola.  I've "stretched" the last of a container of vanilla by adding almost an equal amount of plain yogurt to it - they had no idea.  I'm not sure how long it will take to convert them to plain though.