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Jul
15
You guys, I woke up super early this morning all in a panic because I feel like there are 10 kajillion things that should have been getting done that I have neglected to do. Tomorrow is -R-’s infamous Blog Share, so the post here will not be my own but an anonymous one. Which also means that I will be posting anonymously elsewhere, on one of the other participating blogs. I’ve also been madly writing the first section of the Choose Your Own Blogventure (it’s finished! yay!), and getting all the participant info together, as well as cooking up a storm for the Whip It Up Challenge but then forgetting to take pictures of everything. Not to worry: I did manage to get pictures of today’s delicious and extremely easy recipe.
Not that I’m trying to shirk my duties as a blogger or anything, but real life has also been hectic, what with yesterday’s root canal procedure (long and uncomfortable, but so far pain-free), dog-sitting (did I mention my cousin’s french bulldog Brutus is staying with us for the next few weeks? And that he pooped IN MY BEDROOM yesterday morning, right after I took him for a walk?), and still not having unpacked from the weekend wedding extravaganza. So basically my house is a mess and all I want to do is ride my bike and maybe pick up a new iPhone but OH NO, there is laundry to do. Bah.
Anyway, you came here for recipes and not my usual drivel, so here we go!
Last week I was cooking up a storm- I tried my hand at buffalo burgers with cheddar, jalapeno, and avocado, homemade no-knead bread, crash hot potatoes, and a pineapple-cucumber-mint salsa that was divine. But I will be talking about none of those today! Today we will discuss my yogurt cream with berries, shamelessly stolen from the Pioneer Woman. I wanted to make this recipe because I was looking for something to have for breakfast that wasn’t my usual store-bought yogurt, but I wasn’t ambitious enough to try making my very own yogurt (yet!). This seemed like a good alternative. And bonus: Chris doesn’t even like yogurt, so it would all be for me! Bwahahaha!
I started out with 1 1/4 cups of heavy cream and whisked in 1 1/2 cups plain, unflavored yogurt. I used fat-free yogurt, but you can use whatever your little heart desires.
Mmm. Yogurt-y.
Then I grabbed about a 1/2 cup of loose brown sugar (you can certainly use more if you like). Also, how much do you love the vintage orange Tupperware my mom bought me?
Then I poured out the mixture into a casserole dish.
Oh, fickle morning sun. Why do you forsake me when I’m trying to document my recipes?
Anyway, then I sprinkled out the sugar over the top, making sure there were no big clumps of it anywhere.
Okay, FINE. So I’m not great at sprinkling. I covered the dish with air-tight plastic wrap and threw it in the fridge for a few hours. It came out looking like this:
Gross, right? WRONG. I got my whisk back out, stirred all that delicious liquefied sugar into the yogurt mixture, and never looked back. Because this yogurt is amazing. Smooth and creamy and totally not fat-free. At all.
I poured it over some fresh blueberries for a belated breakfast, and voila! A meal fit for a lazy blogger.
Seriously: so good. I might even need to make more today. I also mixed almonds into a couple of the blueberry-yogurt mixtures, which was pretty good, and in case you don’t like blueberries (blasphemy!), I think granola, strawberries, bananas, or raspberries would also be delightful with this yogurt.
Full recipe after the jump.
1 1/4 cups heavy cream
1 1/2 cups plain, unflavored yogurt
1/2 to 3/4 cup brown sugar
fresh blueberries, strawberries, bananas, or whatever fruit you like in your yogurt
Mix together the cream and yogurt until smooth. Pour into casserole dish. Sprinkle brown sugar over the top evenly and do not stir the mixture. Cover with plastic wrap and throw it in the fridge. A few hours later, once the sugar is all settled into the yogurt, take that puppy out and stir it until the sugar is all mixed in. Pour it over your yogurt topping of choice and enjoy.
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mmmmmm yogurt. Take plain yogurt and put it in a cheese cloth, tie it up and put it in a strainer in the sink for awhile. Once all the liquid comes out it makes a nice spreadable yogurt cheese that is great on syrian bread with olives.
I’ve never been a fan of yogurt. I’ve tried to eat it in it’s many forms and varieties but a taste for it has eluded me. Your blueberries look good though!
I hate yogurt too. I always thought I was the only one. It still looks yummy though!
I used to hate yogurt, but then I realized that, thanks to my hatred of milk, I was getting almost zero calcium in a day. So I forced myself to learn to like yogurt with lots of granola, and now I can stomach it straight up. Raspberry, peach, or lemon, please!
Okay, I don’t like yogurt that much either, but add HEAVY CREAM and then I think we’ll be in business. Yummy!
MMMM, easy and yummy-looking!
I made that a couple weeks ago, too! I agree: the Pioneer Woman has NOT steered us wrong on this one. Soooo tasty! (I want some right now.)
OOoh! That looks so good!
Wow, that looks super yummy! I’d totally mix in raspberries and strawberries with the blueberries.
mmmm sounds deeeeeeeeeeelish!
I’m glad the root canal went well and that not all dentists are asshats like mine that couldn’t get my root canal right the first time.
Looks delicious! And I’m glad to hear your root canal was pain-free.
Oh those crash hot potatoes are SO. GOOD.
But I’m afraid to make this one because I’ll love it too much and then I’ll have to invest in elastic waist pants.
All of these Whip It Up posts are making me super hungry!
Yum! What a great way to get through all these berries that I’ve been buying compulsively (hello, they are CALLING OUT TO ME!). And the vintage Tupperware? Awesome.
I saw that on Pioneer Woman and thought it looked delish. Now I know it is and I’m going to have to try it soon!
Looks really yummy, and dave is a yogurt FIEND, so I will def be making this for him/telling him about it.
And I think my mom has that exact same orange tupperware!! Couldnt tell you how old those are haha, at least 30 years (since my parents have been married that long). Haha. Love it!
I am a MAJOR fan of yogurt-berry-cereal breakfasts, so I’m sure I’d love this! Have to try!
That sounds really good. I could go for some right now.
Well now I’m just thinking about a root canal. Yeesh.
I have been itching to try this. I’m so glad someone I “know” did and I can take your word for it.
I don’t really like yogurt but I like those yogurt juices things that you can down in two seconds and feel like you’ve done something healthy.
I love when you document stuff. It is cool.
Do you have 30?
I LOVE that you made a breakfast recipe! I always eat the same stuff for breakfast and I want to be more creative, really I do, but who has the time!?! This looks yummy though and might just motivate me to give it a shot!
I have nothing un-neanderthal to say. Just want to let you know that I’m severely digging the food posts (and the foto Friday posts, but this isn’t one of those, is it…).
Request… Can you do a healthy whip it up? Though I imagine (minus the tons of brown sugar I would probably dump all over my fat free yogurt) that this is relatively healthy. Looks delicious.
WOW, I can’t wait to make this. I’m glad to hear you liked it so much too, since I’ve been drooling over it since I saw it on PW blog.
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I love PW!!!
She always has the best recipes….
Have you tried her Chocolate Sheet Cake??
ITS AMAZING!