Okay, old post, but: Learning from making a mistake

What I learned here: Milk from a cow MUST BE BOILED ON THE FIRST DAY!!

Here is milk I tried to boil 2 days after receiving it. It was all stringy and thick and after being boiled I got cheese stuff and sour water?? Ergo! Boil milk from cow on first day!!! even refrigerated!!

Another thing I learned too with milk: do not put vanilla extract in milk when trying to make yogurt (refer to older entry about yogurt making). I did that...in my attempt to make vanilla tasting yogurt, and after 1 1/2 days, I still had milk...and no yogurt.
Fortunately, I decided to immediately boil the stuff (1/2 already boiled milk, 1/2 pure from the cow milk, and vanilla extract) and I ended up with perfect vanilla tasting milk. I think I killed all the bacteria with the alcohol in the extract.















Here is my knee when I SLAPPEd the mosquito While it was sucking my blood. I killed it in action and it was very satisfying....unfortunately I think I made the mosquito panic and inject or not inject what was normal. From now on: lesson learned: let the mosquitoes do their business and deal with the problem afterwords.

That thing lasted a few days longer than the normal bite. It's gone now...but I've got these bedbug bites to deal with instead.

Who wins a metal for most eaten? In Romania? which is in Europe, which is not Africa? Who'd a thought there was such a mosquito threat here?!

Making Yogurt is Easy!!

I have yet to make a great batch, but I ate this batch TWICE!! and I didn't Die!

So what to do:

Step 1: Find a cow, but preferably a cow with an udder to milk. (This is a cow from my village, but I didn't have a female picture, just a male cow picture.)


Step 2: Take that sticla (bottle) [stick-lah] of milk and boil half of it to pasturize it.


Step 3: Wait for the boiled milk to cool and then combine both halves: boiled and unboiled into a container.


Step 4: Let the container sit outside for 6 hours (use your desgression depending on weather, temperature of air and milk, humidity, etc.... I haven't had time to perfect this part yet).


Step 5: Eat and/or put in the fridge to eat later.
Step 6: That was it.

p.s. I left mine out for 2 days...= it tasted like sour dough, but it was edible with 1/2 cup of sugar and 2 spoonfuls of honey.

Emily said that since she lives in the city, she was taught to boil all of it and then to drop a spoonful yogurt you buy at the store to room temp milk and stir and then let it sit overnight ~ 8 hours. She said it tasted great. Let's all try and tell me how it works!

I am waiting for another lady to give me a sticla of milk to try again...