Don't Be a Picklebump

One of my goals this year is to try new things in the kitchen. The first thing I tried happened yesterday after I got my milk allotment at the local farmers market. While I’ve had yogurt before, I’ve never made my own yogurt. My goal with this experiment was to see if it was worth my time and effort to do this on the a regular basis – it is.

The longest part of the yogurt experiment, other than the fermenting after adding the culture, was getting the milk up to temperature and keeping it there long enough for the milk proteins to reorganize themselves. I deem this mission a success and homemade yogurt is now something I will be doing regularly. The great thing is that I can use my current batch of yogurt to reculture new batches.

The second addition is a seasonal recipe that will allow me to have peaches when they are out of season and super expensive in the store – Spiced Peaches. My Aunt Mary sent me my grandmother’s recipe a few weeks back and I found a couple more recipes on-line. I combined them all and came up with these:

You wouldn’t think that vinegar and peaches go together, but you don’t taste the vinegar at all. Instead you taste sweet syrup with cinnamon and cloves in it.  I’ll post the recipe in the next few days.

Oh yeah, not only do spiced peaches go well with yogurt. It’s fantastic when it’s slightly warmed and spooned over vanilla ice cream.