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Showing posts with label Leigh Caron humorous women's fiction writer Akumal Mexico Greek yogurt. Show all posts

Monday, February 11, 2013

IT'S GREEK TO ME


It snuck in…
Almost unseen…
But not quite…
Because…
I found it!
The Greek!
Yogurt, that is…
Here in Akumal, Mexico!
Finally!
I’m so excited!
Since moving here a year ago...
I’ve been on the hunt for Greek yogurt…
But nada…
OK, there was one store that caters to gringos…
It was 20 miles away…
And always by the time I got there…
The Greek yogurt was sold out.
And yeah, I’ve have made my own yogurt…
But to make it Greek…
There’s a lot of straining involved…
a.k.a lots of time involved...
Time I don’t want to spend over a cheesecloth.
So there I was the other day…
In the dairy section of Chedraui…
(a big brand supermarket here in Mexico)
When what to my wondering eyes should appear?
But containers of Greek yogurt by Nestle!
I almost did a happy dance right there in the aisles.
Yeah, I know, Nestle isn’t the most authentic brand…
But it is thick…
And has that same creamy, not too sour taste.
And…
It has an expiration date.
Because the other downside of making my own yogurt…
Is I never know when the expiration date is…
So I wind up throwing half of it away…
For fear of getting food poisoning…
From my own food!
So?
Are you a yogurt fan or aficionado?
Or what’s your favorite gringo food…
You wouldn’t want to live without?


Always, Em-Musing