6 Days of Creation

Took a couple of weeks off from my 6 Days of Creation posts cause I was on the road, but I'm back now so here's some of what I've been blessed to create this week!

Sunday: Noodles
Monday: Home made crock pot yogurt
Tuesday: Banana chocolate yogurt- mix mashed bananas, yogurt cocoa powder and your favorite natural sweetener! Yum!
Wednesday: Started telling the Easter story to my grandkids. I love to dramatize my stories so the kids will  get it :) They really jump when you grab one of them and pretend to cut their ear off!
Thursday: Made some hoop covers for my raised beds. Hopefully I made them well enough that they won't blow away!
Friday: Started work on a "That Says" game for my grandkids. They know the basic sounds so we are working on more complicated sounds like ch and ck. It's a fun card game that the kids are involved in creating. Just one of the many activities I'll be sharing in the book I am writing, "Almost Unschooling Grama"

That was my week!

What did you create?

God Bless You All!


~Grama Sue

Yes! It is still on the market! I sold mine a few years ago thinking I wouldn't be teaching anymore. The kids loved this game. The grandkids I am teaching are still to young for this, but I'll have to put this on my wish list. Fantastic game!

Crock Pot Yogurt

I used to make my own yogurt all the time. My gas oven has a pilot light and for years it was just the right temp to make yogurt inside. All I had to do was heat up the milk, bring it down to 110 degrees, stir in a little of my old batch, stick it in the oven and voila! Yummy yogurt in the morning. Then a few years ago for some reason the inside temp fell by a couple of degrees and all I could get out of it was sour milk.

Anyway, I've been reading lately about making yogurt in a crock pot, so I decided to try it. First I heated up my milk to 165 degrees. Then I took the top off and stirred it until the temp came down to 110. I got tired of stirring so I cheated and threw in a few ice cubes. Then I folded in some yogurt that I bought from the store,  put the lid back on, took the actual crock part out  of the crock pot and wrapped it in towels. Then I stuck the whole thing in the oven.

I used to put a sign on the oven saying YOGURT INSIDE!!!!! but since I rarely use the oven to cook for just Grampa Tom and I and had no plans to use it the next day, I lived dangerously and skipped the sign.

The next morning I had wonderful yogurt. I decided I wanted to make it into Greek yogurt so I  lined a colander with a flour towel and set it in a big pan so I could drain off the whey. I set this in my refrigerator until the next morning. It made the most awesome, almost cheese like Greek yogurt!

I also had 2 quarts of whey. Not sure what I will use it for. I'm thinking I will try using some of it as a base for a meat marinade. I understand it is pretty good plant food too. If I was still making bread, I'd use it as the liquid, but I've sworn off bread for a while. You can dry the stuff, but I don't want to spend all that money cooking it down so I'm going to just freeze it until I want to use it. 

I decided to try my hand at frozen yogurt. I've been seeing some sites about how to make ice cream without an ice cream freezer. Basically you put your ingredients in a bowl and use a mixer to mix in a bunch of air, then put it in a deep freeze to freeze it quickly. I used my Greek yogurt, an egg, some blueberries and a little bit of stevia. Don't know how it will turn out, but I thought it would be fun.

The grandkids ought to be here tomorrow afternoon. I'll use them as guinea pigs and let you know!

God Bless You All!

~Grama Sue