On Yogurt

I'm not posted out yet...so here I am again.

I just have some thoughts about yogurt I'd like to share. I just ate some, with walnuts in it. Makes a great snack, although it was fat-free, which is gross. Not that we tried to get fat free, but of the few times we ever get yogurt we somehow mangage to get the wrong kind... I just don't get the point of fat free yogurt, seeing as it's supposedly so good for you anyway.

A few weeks ago I picked up some yogurt at Walmart because I wanted to make some Indian bread. Of all the yogurts (they come fat free in pale blue plastic containers, and plain in other containers, in itty personal servings in strawberry, blackberry, peach, keylime pie, and every other flavor, they probably come whipped, oh, and there's a lot of vanilla...) there was but one brand and one kind of container of plain ol' yogurt. It made me sad. It made me lonely for India, where, if there was a Walmart, plain yogurt would line a kilometer's worth of shelves and people would squint at you when you asked for keylime. Really. So I took my plain little yogurt up to the cash register in a little raincloud of international disgruntlement and had a little pity party. I don't think it affected anybody much.

So this week, I was still on yogurt. I really enjoyed eating the plain kind (with fat) because it has a tang and texture woefully absent in other yogurts- vastly superior. While I had chicken pox (and a sore throat) I made an Indian drink I had in a New Delhi restaurant. It's called lassi (as in Cassi Lassi). All I did was put

1/2 Cup Yogurt
1/2 Cup Milk
1/8-1/4 tsp Salt

In the blender and blended it until it frothed up. It sounds wierd, but it was very soothing and that was pretty much all that could tempt my languishing appetite all day.

So yes, if anyone was reading my blog before, they may no longer. I just felt like getting on my yogurt soap box today. (Gracie!)