Chile-Cocoa Graham Crackers Recipe. How to Make Greek Yogurt. Make your own regular or Greek yogurt at home with this easy method. Next to salad in a jar, homemade fat-free Greek yogurt is one of my most powerful weapons in the war against extra poundage. I eat it a minimum of twice a day–with my breakfast cereal and as an afternoon snack. It’s satisfying. (Similar to milk–see Got Milk?) I honestly can’t think of a better snack. But it can be expensive to buy. Keep reading for all the details or go straight to the recipe below. These directions are perfect for making large batches as opposed to the individual servings produced by an electric yogurt maker. Directions: First: Fill Pyrex batter bowl (my preference) or 2-quart glass container with 2 quarts of fat-free milk. Heat 2 quarts of non-fat milk to 175 degrees F. If a skin forms, remove it, Second: Allow milk to cool down to somewhere between 100 and 115 degrees.
Allow to cool down to 100-115 degrees F. Third: Whisk 2-3 teaspoons of commercial or homemade yogurt into cooled milk. Homemade Strawberry Fruit Leather. If you follow weelicious on Twitter or Facebook, you may have read about my recent fruit leather obsession. My kids love fruit roll-ups and while there are some great brands out there made with just fruit, I know can save a ton of dough making it myself. While I haven't spent a lot of money trying to figure it out, I have spent a lot of time!
As of today, I've made 15 (yes, fifteen!!!!) Batches of strawberry leather in an effort to perfect the recipe. It's been a frustrating challenge to say the least, especially when making fruit leather seems so easy in principal. It's just fruit and heat, right? Here's a breakdown of my results: Batches 1-4: I used juicy strawberries from the farmer's market, baked them for three hours and the batch turned out perfect and chewy with a deep red color. Batches 5-8: So much for being proud of myself. Batches 9-12: Back to perfection using berries from the farmer's market.
Santa Hat Party Mix - Cookies and Cups. This past weekend my husband and I got together with some friends and had a game night. Game nights are fun, aren’t they? Aren’t they? Well, they are supposed to be fun. Until… Men vs. Women. Apparently as a married adult it gets all kindergarten on game nights. When you are in elementary school it’s always boys vs. girls. The sexes seem to come together in the mid teens through your twenties when you are wearing love goggles and you play “couples”. After you have been married for a while, you squeegee the steam off the goggles and it’s all boys vs. girls again. It all seems like good fun when the games start.
Then, slowly but surely, the tide starts to turn. It would be remiss of me not to mention that I was on the losing side of the tide. Sometimes it happens like that. It would also be remiss of me not to tell you that this was a rematch. We have lost before. Losing is not so much fun. Especially when you were the ones that called for the rematch. An isolated incident. Apparently not. Bugles Ingredients.
No-bake energy bites. I probably should have poured a nice stiff drink recipe for you all on this loveliest of lovely tax days. Especially for my fellow small business owners who just gave half of their revenue back to the government. Good grief, I won’t even go there. Instead though, I thought I’d offer my idea of a more comforting alternative. Pasta. When life is good, and when life gets crazy, I turn to pasta. And this pasta recipe is one of my all-time favs.
And just as it has for years, this one hit the spot. Read more This past Friday night was meant for celebrating. The weather was sit-out-on-the-deck-in-the-cool-evening-breeze perfection. And a very special birthday girl turned the big 3-0. Friends, meet Stacey. Read more TGIF, friends. Hope that you all have had a lovely week, and that a relaxing weekend lies ahead. Read more Ever since my friends and I met for a tapas happy hour at our neighborhood Spanish restaurant a few weeks ago, I’ve had sangria on my mind. Read more Read more Read more Happy day, friends!