IN A CARDBOARD BOX!!!!

Found a video on youtube. Seemed SOOOOO simple. And it is.

I made it yesterday, and it was ready this morning.

OF COURSE I MADE A VIDEO.

And when I have the yogurt, I then make it like FAGE or Chobani (which is thicker Greek yogurt.

You can even make cream cheese out of this. It's all in how much liquid you let drip in the bowl underneath.

I make it like cottage cheese.

for Alan, I put honey, splenda and vanilla. And then some wheat germ.

Me?? I like it just the way it is, with some wheat germ sprinkled on it.

So take a look!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTTr4ink4V8

That's very cool, Melody!

So, did you actually make the original yogurt, or did that come from a carton?

Twinks:

That's the funniest question I have gotten.

You can't make yogurt (in a cardboard box), from original yogurt.

You take milk (I use Alba fat free). You heat it up to 180 degrees, then cool it down to between 100 and 110.

and here's where the important step comes in.

You need (for the first time), a big teaspoon of ANY KIND OF PLAIN YOGURT), THIS IS CALLED THE STARTER YOGURT.

So after cooling down the milk to 110 or so, you gently blend in the little amount of yogurt (from a container, or you can use active live yogurt cultures that you buy from either a health store, or the internet).

After blending it in gently, you have two choices.

You can put the milk in the yogurt machine (this machine only makes one quart), and I've been doing this for about 3 weeks now.

Or you can do what I did the other day. It's what people have been doing for CENTURIES before yogurt machines were invented.

I took my milk blend, I poured it into a two quart mason jar, I capped it tightly. I put it in a cardboard box that already had blankets in it.

I then covered the mason jar with more blankets and closed the box.

I started this at 11 a.m. one morning, and when I got up the next morning, I opened the box.

AND I HAD PLAIN LOVELY YOGURT.

Then I strained it (like I showed in my video), and in a few hours, you have thick greek yogurt. The longer you strain, the thicker it becomes.

You can do this with 2 mason jars, and you'll have 4 quarts of yogurt. Actually, if you strain this, you have less but it's thicker.

There you go, you have had a lesson in the easiest thing I have ever done. I may never use my yogurt machine again. All it really is in an incubator. It does in 7 hours, what the box did over night. But you can make MUCH MORE YOGURT.

And wait until you see the video of the sprout tray I built.

I'm going to come back and put the link on this thread.

You're going to laugh your head off.

Melody

Twinks:

Get read to laugh.

here's my NEW AND IMPROVED HOME-MADE SPROUT TRAY. When you look at this, go to the right of the screen and see "more from eliz7212" and you will see the other video of my LITTLE SPROUT TRAY that cost $16.43 cents.

I took one look at that one (it sprouts great stuff by the way), but I knew I COULD BUILD A MUCH BIGGER ONE MYSELF. You can buy big ones but they are NOT CHEAP!!!

I'm a do it myself person.

So here's my newly grown broccoli sprouts in my newly formed sprouting tray.

FYI, I'll let these sprouts until Saturday and then I'll just grab em up (roots and all), de-hull them, put them in my salad spinner (I don't even need to put these in indirect sunlight BECAUSE THEY ARE ALREADY GREEN).

Then I'll just put them in my Debbie Myers green bags.

Life is GOOD WHEN YOU SPROUT!!!!

lol

Here's the link. Let me know what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E31aS...eature=channel

That's very cool, Mel!

So, you used a big bowl and a splatter screen? And covered them with a Rubbermade thingie or what?

Twinks:

I bought a splatter screen (the two of them cost $.99 cents). The bottom is some kind of pan with two handles that I had in my house.

the top is the top of a cake plate or something or other.

So combine the three things, and you have:.....

A pan, with a strainer, with a dome shaped lid on it (so the sprouts can GROW!!))

You gotta love this!!

Melody
P.S. I just pm'd you

Greek Yogurt, sprouts...


Ya know something, Mel? Some people would accuse you of having too much time on your hands!


You gonna start making your own honey next?

Has NOTHING TO DO WITH TIME ON MY HANDS.

Rinsing and draining takes exactly one minute when I get up, and one minute before I go to bed.

Let's say I had a full time job BUT I WANTED TO GROW MY OWN SPROUTS ANYWAY.

I'd start them on a Saturday or sunday. All this means is putting them in a mason jar and filling with water. Takes one minute.

Next day, (for 5 or 6 days), one minute when I get up, one minute when I go to bed.

So far exactly 3 minutes have been spent on growing sprouts, right?

When they are finished sprouting, (AND HERE IS WHERE THE BIG TIME CONSUMER COMES IN, LOL (ALL OF 30 MINUTES).

I take them out of the trays or jars, I swish them in a bowl of water so the hulls come off, then I put them in my salad spinner to dry.

then I put them in my debbie myers green bags and store in fridge.

That's it!!! I do not go in a backyard garden and till the soil. I have no soil. All I have is mason jars and trays.

It took more time to build the tray (exactly 2 minutes,) than it does to rinse and drain two times a day.

Oh, it gets better. I just ordered two hemp sprouting bags.

Want to hazard a guess how long it will take me to grow my bean sprouts and lentils in a hemp bag?

30 seconds.

You soak over night in the mason jar. Next morning, you rinse off the water, you pour the beans or lentils or whatever I just soaked overnight...into the hemp bag.

YOU HANG IT ON A KNOB OVER THE SINK.

Twice a day, you dip in water and hang up over the sink. You don't do anything else.

So when my hemp bags arrive, I'll grow a batch of mung beans, and a batch of lentils, DOING EXACTLY NOTHING BUT DIPPING IN WATER AND HANGING IT ON THE CABINET KNOB WHICH IS OVER MY SINK.

Now ..making yogurt. That takes about one hour (from the start to the putting it in the cardobard box or the yogurt machine).

So one hour once a week for the yogurt, and the various minutes it takes to rinse and drain the sprouts.

WHAT TIME?????

lol

I wish I had an outdoor garden, NOW THAT WOULD BE A GREAT HOBBY.

But because I live in an apartment, and I adore my sprouts and stuff, I just take a couple of minutes a week, and do my thing.

So there you go. YOU CAN MAKE FUN OF ME ALL YOU WANT!!!!

I am the SPROUT-LADY.

And that's what they called me last night at the Neuropathy meeting in NYC. I am now emailing many of the members. They want to see what I sprout and how I sprout.

And they LOVED MY MUFFINS.

So there....off with your head!!!!

lol lol lol lol

Melody