This is the most delicious desk-breakfast! It travels well in a small container, it's got protein and carbs and vitamins and antioxidants, and it's pretty.
First you strain your own yogurt. I learned this trick from
executrix and now I use it all the time.
Buy plain, inexpensive yogurt in the fat-content of your choice (I make my own 2% by combining a quart of whole-milk yogurt and a quart of nonfat). Put a strainer or colander on a bowl, put a big coffee filter into the strainer, dump the yogurt into the coffee filter, and put the whole thing into the fridge overnight.
The result will be, in the bowl, a significant quantity of whey (which has a variety of uses); and in the coffee filter an almost cream-cheese consistency strained yogurt that is wunderbar. Decant this back into the yogurt container and refrigerate.
Now get some Trader Joe's dried wild blueberries. (Fresh and frozen blueberries have their place, don't get me wrong, but dried? Whole different order of wonderful.)
The night before, put a layer of blueberries in the bottom of your lunch-carrying container. Put strained yogurt on top. The next morning when you get to work, open, stir and eat.
The thick, snow-white yogurt turns kind of pinky-purple, the dried berries will have softened a bit and will form little sweet bites that burst with blueberry-ness in the tart/sour creamy yogurt, and the combination of flavors and textures is out of this world.
First you strain your own yogurt. I learned this trick from
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Buy plain, inexpensive yogurt in the fat-content of your choice (I make my own 2% by combining a quart of whole-milk yogurt and a quart of nonfat). Put a strainer or colander on a bowl, put a big coffee filter into the strainer, dump the yogurt into the coffee filter, and put the whole thing into the fridge overnight.
The result will be, in the bowl, a significant quantity of whey (which has a variety of uses); and in the coffee filter an almost cream-cheese consistency strained yogurt that is wunderbar. Decant this back into the yogurt container and refrigerate.
Now get some Trader Joe's dried wild blueberries. (Fresh and frozen blueberries have their place, don't get me wrong, but dried? Whole different order of wonderful.)
The night before, put a layer of blueberries in the bottom of your lunch-carrying container. Put strained yogurt on top. The next morning when you get to work, open, stir and eat.
The thick, snow-white yogurt turns kind of pinky-purple, the dried berries will have softened a bit and will form little sweet bites that burst with blueberry-ness in the tart/sour creamy yogurt, and the combination of flavors and textures is out of this world.
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