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How Can I Make Better Fat-Free Yogurt Dips?
Good Questions

Q: I was wondering if you had any insight on dips. Lately I have been trying to make veggie dips with fat-free Greek yogurt and everything has fallen kind of flat compared to their full fat sour cream...

Loving Right Now: Liberté Yogurt

It's time for Greek yogurt to stop hogging all the attention. This yogurt from Montreal is our new favorite for breakfast. It's outrageously delicious, and we could eat four or five containers at a ti...

Can I Make Soy Yogurt At Home?
Good Questions

Q: Is there a way to make soy yogurt at home? I don't eat dairy and I love soy yogurt. But it's fairly pricey in my area of the country, and I want to cut my food budget. Has anyone successfully mad...

Catherine's Cilbir (Turkish Poached Eggs over Yogurt)
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Cilbir (Turkish Poached Eggs over Yogurt) Category: Vegetarian How long does it take? 20 minutes Name: Catherine Why is it a favorite meal? Yogurt sauce and poached eggs are two of my favori...

Quick, Cool Cucumber Sauce for Sandwiches and Vegetables

This is not tzatziki. We know it looks like tzatziki. And before you ask, "How many cucumber-yogurt sauces does one really need, anyway?" let us explain the difference......

Cool Down Tip: Toss Your Yogurt In The Freezer!

It doesn't matter if you're making your own yogurt or you have a favorite store bought brand, one of the quickest ways to have a sweet treat (that's also easy on the hips) is to freeze it! We've pic...

Recipe: Frozen Nectarine-Yogurt Pie

In the summer, we want fast, easy, and, if it's hot out, cold desserts. This is one of the simplest out there—even quicker if you use a prepared pie crust. Just fresh, ripe fruit, yogurt, some whipp...

What's Your Favorite Warm-Weather Breakfast?

We're not ones for elaborate breakfasts (which is why we've devoted quite a bit of space to grab-and-go recipes and things you can make ahead of time). This is even more true when the weather turns wa...

Seasonal Yogurt Topping: Rhubarb

While perusing local markets during our recent trip to England, we were intrigued by an ingredient combination that popped up again and again: yogurt and rhubarb. From jars of rhubarb-on-the-bottom yo...

Is It Cost-Effective To Make Pantry Staples Yourself?

We love offering DIY recipes — recipes for things like butter, instant oatmeal, chocolate pudding, yellow cake, crackers and jam. You can see a huge list of all our DIY recipes here. But is it m...

Afternoon Snack: Yogurt Swirled with Peanut Butter, Honey, and Graham Crackers

Did you eat graham crackers with peanut butter when you were a kid? We did. (Of course, you won't find peanut butter anywhere near a preschool these days...) This is a grown-up version that satisfies ...

Recipe: Yogurt Barley Soup

A recent meal at an Armenian restaurant inspired this recipe for yogurt barley soup. Creamy without being heavy, the zesty yogurt provides a nice balance to nutty and chewy barley. When the barley is ...

Tip: Use Yogurt for a Creamy Soup

Those are the ingredients for Sara Kate's Fridge-Clearing Avocado Soup. Maybe not the most seasonal group of ingredients in the middle of February, but it exhibits a very good (and healthy) idea for m...

Straus Family Creamery
Sonoma County, CA

If you've shopped at Rainbow Grocery or Bi-Rite Market, you've probably seen those glass bottles with the cream-top milk and creamer. Most likely, they came from Straus Family Creamery in Sonoma Coun...

The Locavore’s Delight: Five Delicious Reasons to Appreciate the Bay Area

De la Paz Coffee. They'll roast your coffee in the morning and deliver it to your home or office that afternoon. On their bicycles. Four more below the jump!...

Recipe Review: Orange Yogurt Cake

So if it has yogurt in it, can we pretend it's healthy? Pretty please? This recipe for Orange Yogurt Cake comes from one of our favorite blogs, Farmgirl Fare. We made it for a barbecue dinner party l...

Good Question: Does Anyone Have Tips for Making Cheese and Yogurt at Home?

As long as we're talking about yogurt, here's a great question from reader Sarah. I just finished reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, and I'm interested in the chapters re: making your own cheese an...

Make This: Yogurt, Lemon, and Herb Dip

We discussed our love of Greek yogurt over the weekend, and now that we have you whipped into a dairy frenzy, here's a beautiful shot of yogurt dip (with radishes and baby carrots from the garden!) to...

Weekend Reading: Greek Yogurt Revival

Are Greeks better cooks than the French? Michael Symon, chef of Lolita in Cleveland, says so, and attributes it to the Greek love of their particularly thick yogurt. Higher in fat, protein, (and flavo...

What's For Lunch? Blueberry Yogurt and Homemade Graham Crackers

We often end up eating what amounts to nursery food for lunch during the week - simple meals of toast and jam and fruit. Here's our lunch - yogurt with honey and semi-frozen organic wild blueberries f...

Recipe: Dill and Yogurt Chicken Salad

Chicken salad is spring and summer food at its best - easy, creamy and cool. Everyone has their favorite - this incredibly simple version is our own. We are not fans of lots of mayonnaise; we like the...