I kinda love that in this forum you have to specify non-consensual.

Heh. It would never have occured to me NOT to.

I've been thinking about making sour cream substitute (plain yogurt strained through cheesecloth) for recipes.

I read your LJ post this morning, and it sounds like my kind of book. I need to pick it up.

Woo! I look forward to hearing about how much you love it.

I am not sure I like this yogurt. It's very tart. It tastes more like straight-up yogurt; I need my fruity flavor! Come on, fruit, get fruity, dammit.

I've been thinking about making sour cream substitute (plain yogurt strained through cheesecloth) for recipes.

I caved and bought a special strainer for that years ago; it was cheap and works really well. You can get it pretty thick.

Everything has HFCS in it. Bread. Tomato sauce. Salad dressings, ketchup, mayo. Canned beans.

This is what I've been saying for a while. It's very annoying. Shopping at Trader Joe's cuts down on that a little bit, but reading all of the labels all of the time gets exhausting.

I have a neighbor who makes her own yogurt all the time...and this is a woman who can't be fussed to recycle. I should try it. But everytime I think to do so, I remind myself that I don't 'do that much dairy.' Then I get a huge craving and go buy the mondo-spendy stuff at the healthfood store. Speaking f which, 7 Star Farms is my absolute favorite and their maple flavor has no hfcs.

Oh Sparky, it did look like Babyfrass was giving you a workout. I can't imagine what that is like...plus the sore hip. Ugh. You were a real trooper.

Maybe extra activity in utero will translate into atheletic prowess and B'frass will end up supporting you in your dotage off of Beckham sized endorsements. Then, you'll look back and think it was all worth it...um, right? It could happen!

What's driving me crazy is how hard it is to get a salad dressing of any sort that isn't loaded down with sweetener of some sort. I dislike sweet salad dressing and I'm usually too lazy (or pressed for time) to make it from scratch.

I'm eating organic barley (99 cents a pound, bay-bee) with organic agave nectar (okay, that was a little pricier, but I don't use much) and (non-organic, Costco-purchased, cheap) cinnamon for breakfast, AIFG.

I've been thinking about making sour cream substitute (plain yogurt strained through cheesecloth) for recipes.

Worth it! (Although, okay, I strain mine through a layer of coffee filters over a mesh strainer, but same idea.)

I really need to start making my own yogurt. I have the maker from the House of Mom Kitchen Supplies Emporium (also where I got my Cuisinart, my food mill, and a lot of my canning jars--never say there's no silver lining to parent who hoard!), so it's just a matter of doing it.

I'm about to pull the trigger on the food/sustainability/gardening/conscious eating blog that's been swimming around in my head, thanks to last night's discussion. And I need a blog name. And I have NO ideas.

Let's see...I started with Eno's album Another Green World.

Then I thought of some bad puns off that that didn't work.

But it brought to mind the Green World theory of Shakespeare scholarship.

Green World is a literary concept coined by critic Northrop Frye. In some comedies by William Shakespeare, the main characters escape the order of a city for a forested and wild setting adjacent to the city. This natural environment is often described as a green world. It is in this more loosely structured, fantastic environment that issues surrounding social order, romantic relationships, and inter-generational strife, which are a prominent part of the "city world", become resolved, facilitating a return to the normal order.

So I'm wondering if there's a Shakespeare quote that can help. Something set in the forest of Arden maybe.

eta: Or, you know, work in the Jossverse ref with Illyria.

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