I agree that home made butter is delectable. Not that I have made it often, but did make it as a school experiment, using a jar full of cream, and shaking it until the butter accumulated on top.
When I was a kid, milk usually came in bottles and the cream rose to the top! The milkman left the milk in bottles on the front porch, and you could have all the cream you wanted if you got the milk bottle first.
These days I usually buy homogenized milk, but I still love full fat yogurt with the cream on top.
When I cut my foot, I was making a strawberry smoothie in the food processor. The recipe:
Put into a food processor ten to twelve individually frozen unsweetened strawberries, one cup sweetened yogurt, one cup apple juice. Blend until the texture is smooth. REMOVE THE BLADE and pour into a large glass.
If you use full fat vanilla yogurt, it will taste like strawberry ice cream.
Variations - use any flavor yogurt, any flavor juice, any frozen berry - sweeten to taste with honey if the yogurt isn't presweetened. Optional additions include soy powder and brewer's yeast.
Original version is full of potassium (strawberries) and calcium (yogurt).
If you don't have yogurt, don't despair, use cottage cheese! Not much in the way of calcium, but lots of protein.
[My ankle was done in by a strawberry-cottage cheese smoothie, with apple juice, honey and lemon juice.
Thank goodness for small favors -- I had just taken a shower and was squeeky clean, also had just put the blender parts through the dishwasher so it was squeeky clean (except for bits of strawberry, cottage cheese, honey and lemon juice - but the strangest thing was that, when I realized that the blade was going to fall out and hit me, I heard a very small voice in my mind telling me "don't make a move!"
And another part of my mind was saying, "what do you mean, don't make a move! That thing is - aughngh! - oh wow it's heavy and very very sharp!"
I had a feeling that I had been there before, and that it was happening like fractals.
The blade hit me right on the point of the ankle and sliced forward, and did very little harm.
If it had gone backward, it would have severed my tibial artery.] |
