This post demonstrates why I love farmers' markets. For $9 I got: two medium heads of broccoli, a large bunch of ong choy, an even larger bunch of pea shoots, a small head of butter leaf lettuce, some giant green garlic (extremely fragrant!), three amazingly crisp apples, and a mountain of button mushrooms. To me, this beats any Safeway in both price and quality.
We had a nice chenin blanc "cocktail" since neither of us really loved the wine. One slice of juicy navel orange and a sprinkling of chopped strawberries later and it was fruitily delicious.
And this weekend's dessert project: frozen yogurt! This approximates the taste and texture of Pinkberry, but is much healthier since it's made with real yogurt and pure cane sugar, not chemical powder.
The recipe is simple: one tub of Trader Joe's Greek Style yogurt, about half a cup of sugar (more or less depending on your sweet tooth; I used less), and a splash of milk (probably less than 1/8 cu). Stir the ingredients together until the sugar is distributed, then refrigerate it overnight to make sure the sugar completely dissolves into the yogurt. Give it a good stir before putting it into an ice cream machine for about 20 minutes, or until it's the consistency of a thick milkshake. Scrape into a container, freeze for at least four hours, and dig in!
6 comments:
9 bucks for all that? Hey Pei, why are you oppressing the poor peasants :-P
That's how cheap produce is when you don't go through a middleman. I am happy to directly support local farmers at whatever they consider market rate. It's a lot better value to me than paying for Safeway's overhead, staffing, and storage costs.
I didn't even haggle or charm my way to freebies yesterday, even though if you bring your own bags the farmers sometimes throw in an extra apple or a few free mushrooms to encourage people not to waste bags.
Oh man, there was a whole article in the Health section of the paper today promoting artificial sweeteners. Ew ew ew. I refuse to believe that there's anything superior about the chemical version. Plus it tastes funny, but given the popularity of Pinkberry and other artificially-sweetened things I can assume I'm alone in thinking that way.
Awesome with the Pinkberry clone, I'll have to try it. Now can you show us how to make fresh mochi for the topping?
OMG, fresh mochi....please pretty please recreate the one that Pinkberry makes.
I also make this frozen yogurt at home, but I use agave sugar and a little vanilla extract. Putting it in the freezer for 4 hours, does it make it icy? also, I don't add milk, what does it do for it?
Just came across your site - absolutely fantastic, really has inspired me to whip up a whole heap of dishes.....have to ask though, whats your obsession with frozen yogurt?
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