Yogurt - What Yogurt ?????? YUCKKKKK!!!!

This past week something drastic happened in my kitchen. My husband :-( eat our yogurt sample that I always religious used save to carry on the yogurt legacy in my home. So I had no fresh sample of yogurt remaining to produce a new batch of yogurt almost every day....If you are a south indian you get me by now...We are yogurt monsters as all others call us. As result of this mishap I had to revisit or should I say had to use my own described recipe to make yogurt where I had preached Dannon!!!! 's yogurt with live culture is a great thing to have if you want to start making homemade yogurt. Haa haa haa...what a joke I tried it and it was misery.... the yogurt i got was very thin and touch was like mucous...if u understand what i mean . I am very very finicky person so I could not swallow my own recipe and went on the crazy hunt for making perfect dahi. So finially I found this freeze dried yogurt sample on amazon by euro cuisine (others brands are yogourmet, rolmex) which put the life back into my curd.... So The MORAL OF THE STORY IS: if you are a starter don't use Dannon to make your yogurt but use the freeze dried yogurt starter.

Homemade Garlic Bread

The first time I tried garlic bread was when we arrived in USA. Before this I had no exposure to any foreign cuisines except the indian version of chinese we used to eat at larries (I used to love it I must say). We used to eat garlic bread generally as a snack whenever we were hungry...but the ones we used to buy from Walmart had a huge amount of butter in it. So I wanted to try making some of my own as I liked its taste.

Ingredients:

1. Unsalted Butter
2. Fresh garlic pods.
3. 2 green chillies ( optional).
4. Parsley , oregano , dill or any other herb.
5. Fresh French Bread Slices.
6. Pestle.
7. foil Tray.
8. Oven.

Method:

Herb Butter:

1. Crush the garlic pods , chillies and few strands of parsley or dill or oregano using a pestle.
2. mix this paste with the room temperature butter to make herb butter.
3. Add salt if you want.(optional)
   

Garlic Bread:

1. Preheat the oven at 450 degrees .
2. Spread the herb butter on one side of each slice of french bread.
3. arrange it on buttered bread slice on the foil tray.
4. heat it in the oven for about 5 - 10 min .
5. if you want to get the browning on the top fast just keep the oven in the broil mode just for 30 -45 secs otherwise the slices will burn.
6. Take out and serve with soup or pasta.