Showing posts with label yogurt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yogurt. Show all posts

Saturday, 22 June 2013

Thursday, 5 July 2012

Warming to the frozen yogurt culture | Athens News

Warming to the frozen yogurt culture | Athens News

I remember buying "yogice" at Rackhams department store in Birminghan in the early 1970s.  I don't remember haveing eaten yogurt before I came across yogice.

Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Yogurt Bar

In all my years of travelling in Greece, I have only once been in a bar or cafe specialising in yogurt.  In Andros chora (this was in the 1990s) I found a cafe sellin home made yogurt.  either I have been looking in the wrong places, or yoghurt cafes are well hidden; or there are few.

Whilst I was in Greece in July 2011 I read an article in Athens News Filling the yoghurt niche about a new yogurt cafe in Athens  - the Fresko Yogurt Cafe, not far from the new Acropolis Museum.  I must pay a visit next time I am in Athens.

In case you are` wondering about the differing spellings of "yoghurt", from the Athens News article

THE SIGN catches your eye and, as a native English speaker, you immediately jump on the fact that they have forgotten the ‘h’. Fresko Yogurt Bar, however, has intentionally dropped the ‘h’, in keeping with the original Turkish word yogurt
I often spelling yoghurt with a "j"!

Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Cool sweets made from yogurt

I read this recipe in Ekathimerini
Cool sweets made from yogurt

These are perhaps recipes I might try in England, but look too complicated to make whilst I am in Greece.  Who was it who said thgat life is too short to stuff mushrooms?  I like my food preparation to be quick and easy.

There is a recipe I like in England, using Total yoghurt.  I haven't tried this recipe in greece as I have not seen (or even looked for!) lemon curd in Greece.  I know that I could make lemon curd, but life's too short..................

My recipe is for lemon ice cream.  You need a tub of 10% fat Total yoghurt, and some lemon curd.  the lemon curd should be the pale yellow sort, not the vivid yellow sort.

Mix the yoghurt and lemon curd.  The proportions should be according to your taste, say one large spoonsful of lemon curd to a small tub of yoghrt.

Mix and freeze.

And enjoy!

Writing of Total yoghurt reminds me of the paper discs on top of the yoghurt.  I did recent;y forget to take the paper off, and poured honey onto the paper disc.  It was much easier to get the honey off the disc than I expected.  I remember once having a pudding at a restaurant in England.  I forget exactly what the pudding was, but an ingrediant was Greek yogurt.

I was eating the pudding - and found a disc of paper in the pudding!