Thanks to all of you who emailed me, left me a comment and facebooked with me on this new place of mine. I love it here, nearly as much as I love Australia. But not quite
Now my lovelies I really wasn’t intending on blogging in my new place about yoghurt. But as is usual with me I regularly go off on a tangent and so why limit that to real life?
So I give you the Beach Cottage Homemade DIY Yoghurt.
This all started with my happening upon this old bottle a while back…it was just what I was after for my umm milk believe it or not…for too long I have not enjoyed those big old plastic bottles in my fridge…I wanted a lil’ bit more, you know, je ne sais quoi when I grabbed the milk for my tea in the morning…
So when I saw this in the Frenchy shop I scooted past a couple of other browsers and dived across all manner of pretties to snatch this to my person before any other vintage-style-milk-bottle-loving gal (or guy for that matter) got to it before me.
And with it clutched tightly to myself I walked around that shop just oh-so smug…oooh yeah baby, wait ’til the morning, I will pour the milk in my tea all vintagey and Frenchy, I will rock this cottage with all things stylish in milk
After pottering around a bit longer, trying and failing to not spend money so my kids could eat that week, I took it to the counter, whereupon the lady serving said she loved seeing hers in the morning..and we oohed and ahhed and gushed…and then another girl added that she loved to keep her yoghurt milk in there.
Your what?
The milk I use to make my home-made yoghurt that I eat with my home-made granola every single morning on the verandah. Yep she was floating around in linen too.
Oh my goodness me. I am sure by now you’ll know what was happening to me. I wanted a milk yoghurt bottle. I wanted home-made yoghurt. And floaty linen.
And somewhere in the back of my mind, I remembered my bath companionJamie Oliver mentioning way back about making yoghurt and when I got home found it in possibly my fave book of his ‘Return of the Naked Chef’
And so the other day on an absolutely beautiful Winter’s day here in Sydney, where the temperature was about 70F, the cottage was bathed in delightful sunshine and the sky was a wonderful blue I pulled up the old sash windows in the kitchen and made yoghurt as per my friend Jamie.
*1 litre full fat milk, 1 x small tub live yoghurt
*boil milk, leave to cool for 40 mins, whisk in live yoghurt, cover & leave out for 6/8 hrs. Put in fridge. Chill.
Spoon into an old jar, grab your vintage bottle, take some photos. And swoon.
Next I’m making granola, as ever if you have a recipe that is throw-it-together Beach Cottage style I’d love if you could leave it and thanks for the black bean soup recipes to those who took the time to leave them for me…I’ll have more on that soon.
Anyway, I’d love to know what you think of my new French friend?
It was a pleasure meeting your new French friend. I’m sitting here trying to imagine the gorgeous day you described. What a wonderfully peaceful image.
Love the milk bottle…stunning! You have just reminded me that I have a vintage yoghurt bottle…not french, but I am assuming Australian vintage. Interestingly yoghurt is actually spelt “Yoghourt”…would love to put some home made yoghurt in her!
Hey girl, so glad you’re back and looking better then eva! Really love the milk bottle and the image you conjoured up for us. I love ladies spoting linen and vintage shopping. I raise my white flag to you. Not only are you the most creative people I ‘ve come to know, have a gorgeous home and a gorgeous family,but now………you’re making your own yogurt!!!!That’s it I’ve been slacking big time. I’m not going to try to make yogurt, but I’ll make something…. my children will have you to thank! Ps also love the new header…very snazzy! <3
Ooh la la! I love it! I have never tried to make yogurt, but if I had a lovely french milk bottle I think I’d be heating and stirring in a second! I think we must have the same kind of vintage loving DNA because if I found a lovely milk bottle like that those big ugly plastic jugs would be so gone!
What an awesome bottle Sarah. Fits right in there at the beach cottage.
Love the way you set up your pictures for the post today.
Debbie@houseatthelake
A deliteful read. Now I want to put my half and half in something pretty for my coffee in the morning.
I have vintage bottles somewhere! From thrifty long ago. I think I will gather them up.
You have inspired me. And I love the floating in linen thing!
I have been wanting to make yoghurt for a long time now. I am inspired as I too have been dreaming of yoghurt, granola and fruit for breakfast. Sadly, I do not have a cool french bottle to put it in. I MUST go thrifting!
Always wanted to try making that yogurt, but have never gotten around to it!
Very ‘linen floaty’ and ‘vintagey’ effect for your mornings now! I have been trying to smuggle a couple of old milk jugs out of my Mum’s house without her noticing… no luck so far, she keeps catching me! Flick
I invisioned you in slow motion reaching across the table for your prize and grinning from ear to ear then clutching the bottle to you like a new born child, and a beautiful child she is…what is her name? LOL Perhaps…Lilly or Loo Loo!
I want one!!!….vintage milk bottle that is. Yep could easily trade in the plastic ones for one of those. As for the homemade yoghurt…who would of thought is was that easy. It’s now on my list of things to try.
Love that post.
Love the bottle
Love that your making your own yoghurt – (using yoghurt in the milk is needed because of the ‘live culture’ which is needed-guess you already knew that.
Love that your going to make your own granola
All it needs now is for you to MAKE your own something in linen (I just loved how you equated that with all the other bits
I know!! make floaty baggy linen pyjamas, then it would look tres chic when you want to wear them on the school run, but definitely not now, too cold, but in summer……maybe?? Nah!!….didn’t think so.
I wonder was her floaty linen – a natural colour – I bet it was.
Actually that bottle is rather gorgeous.
Something homey about it. It looks likes it has a real purpose.
Sarah, I have several granola recipes, and one of them is on my blog if you want to check it out. Let me know if you want something different…like I said, I have several different ones.
loving the photies…..you are soo funny- that is exactly what i would have done- and exactly the reason i learnt to make bread…and i became OBSESSED with baking bread…NON STOP so warn you kiddos that they will be yoghurted for months till you jump onto something else…& then just make a reasonable amount a day…well week!
& surely our friend Bill has a great ‘get-up-&-go’ granola in one of his books…he has a gorgeous museli in his ‘Everyday’ book….
love the new site-i’m just back from hols & everythings gone even lovlier….and i’m still looking for more of those chairs you have sitting in the ocean up there for us both!!
melissa x
Ohh! I must look for that recipe after this weekend. (I can’t look now as Jamie’s book is wrapped up and hidden, waiting to be given to my dad on Sunday, for Father’s Day.)
Funny …. just lately I have been hell bent on replacing as much plastic with other stuff as I can… even in the pantry if its plastic I’m wanting another way to store stuff…. surprising how good little changes make you feel. Bet you’ll enjoy your brekkie even more with that lovely bottle. Great find Sarah have a good week end.x
YUMMIE!!!!! I WANT THAT!!!!! but……..my translator translates your live milk into something really strange…..something like “living milk”…uhm……????? Don’t know if I want THAT?????
can you explane please???*GRIN*
Love the “Le bon lait” bottle/carafe. And the “yep, she was floating around in linen too” line made me lol!
As for homemade granola, just get all the dried fruits you love the best, some good quality rolled oats, bran, chopped almonds or pecans and some favourite flakes, mix it up & YUMMO!
I love putting greek yoghurt, honey and LSA on mine.
I looove your milk bottle!! I’ve seen some like this on my recent trip in France. French people are able to make ordinary things look extremely charming, don’t they??? And also I like how yummy looks your homemade yogurth. Your images are truly lovely. Like them!! xx Zaira
I love the new/old milk bottle!!! And, I love the idea of making yogurt at home. I have recently gotten into Fage Greek yogurt with honey spooned on top. I love the tart flavor. I’ll have to give Jamie’s recipe a try and use my salvaged Bonne Maman jam jars to store it!!!
Sarah!!!! LUV your blog home! JUST BEAUTIFUL!!! As usual, you hit it — spot on, girl! I can’t believe how much talent just oooozes out of you —– constantly! You’re amazing…..
Your new milk bottle is adorable. What a great find! I can hardly wait to go vintage treasure shopping with my sis, Debbie, at a local flea market held one Sunday per month next weekend! Hoping to bring home some things you’ve inspired me to look for!
I love that bottle and I love the idea of homemade yogurt. I eat yogurt and granola most mornings, although not homemade and I am certainly lacking in the floaty linen department : ). I’m going to look up the recipe and give that a try.
Sarah! I have just realised you said yoghurt milk. Is the recipe not for ordinary yoghurt, but for a milk,
just like those drinking yoghurts? That sounds interesting. Am so interested and would love to know.
I want to make some too!!
I would delight in finding an old milk bottle like that. I don’t drink milk though…only soy(lactose intolerance)…I do eat yogurt, but have not attempted to make my own yet. It is just too easy to buy healthy organic yogurt at my favorite Trader Joes Market. I do make homemade Granola…my children turned young adult/teens still ask me to make it. My 18 yrs old likes to take it to college for brain power snack! The recipe I use is from the Jenny Raymond Vegan Cookbook.
HEY, I want a french friend like that!
AND, to float around in linen!!!
Think I’ll have to give it a go ~
just because it is SUMMER here in
the USA {sorry} and my kids love
to try new things in the summer.
We’ve already decided that we have
to learn to make from scratch pizza….
and creme brulee…..
so why not yogurt, as well???
Thanks for the inspiration!
Now, to find the right bottle…..
Hope your weekend is fab!
xx Suzanne
Ahhh! Sarah, I never imagined such a bottle existed. However, I was talking to a lady in a thrift store the other day who also sells at the same antique mall I’m in. My eyes froze on a clear glass bottle with a stopper like yours; and guess what????? It is a french lemonade bottle. She poked her head back around the corner as I made some sort of sound when I grabbed it off the top shelf. I am ecstatic! And it’s not going to the shop….yet:)
Sarah,
I am loving your new site. I absolutely love making my own yogurt – now I need an incredible glass bottle for my milk! lol The granola I make is from Sue Gregg, but I don’t know which book. It is easy and so good.
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
2. Mix together:
½ c. honey
1/4 c. olive oil or natural peanut butter
2 tsp. Vanilla extract
1 tsp. Cinnamon
3. Combine honey mixture with:
8 c. oats
½ c. sliced almonds
4. Spread evenly in a 9 x 13″ pan and bake for 30 minutes, stirring well every 10 minutes. Allow to cool.
5. Add 1 cup diced dried apricots or other dried fruit and store in tightly closed container. (If your family doesn’t eat it all before you can get it put away)
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G'day ladies, let's have a Too Easy Beach Cottage recipe yeah? The original place for Too Easy Recipes on the web ;-)
So, after my last salad went down a storm in my inbox, that's here if you missed it, I had to do this one seeing as I make it most weeks.
There is a problem with this salad and kiddos though...it looks, well, it looks, kinda yucky...but once they try it, they'll ask if and when they are next having it....at least that's what happens in this ratty old cottage...but I must interject here that my kiddos are 'good eaters'? ...they didn't get a choice in that ;-)
Now, stop, don't start running and hitting that next on your blog reading list, pulses are your best friend in the Too Easy Dump & Go kitchen for the busy mum, or busy anyone for that matter...that reminds me I must blog the garlic canneloni Go To for when you forgot to do dinner, feel like a bath but have three ravenous young Beach Cottage Kiddos on your hands...another day.
I am almost embarrassed to tell you how easy this is, we have it so much that I always have a couple, make that six, cans of lentils around and a jar of goat's cheese in the fridge...the great thing about this is that it's all too easy to get ready in just a few minutes, but it looks, tastes and seems like you did oh so very much more than that.
You can obviously too change it up a bit depending on what you have to hand in your kitchen, and I must say that is how I settled on this version...because one day when I made it I didn't have enough Parsley in the garden and so I chucked in some basil too, and liked the Summer feel it added.
I think of this as being a rather posh salad, not sure why, because it couldn't really be further from the truth...the great thing is that it works so well for an average run of the mill day, (when I did this for this blog post, it was a hot Sydney Sunday and I did it just simply to go with Rosemary & Garlic stuffed pork, you can see that pork here),
...but just as easily it works on a regular old Wednesday night when you have lost all enthusiasm for rustling up yet another meal, or indeed on Saturday night, when your friends are on their way over for dinner and you my friend, are in your new vintage inspired clawfoot bathtub (that's me in a few weeks time, k?) without any clothes on, a tipple and no idea what to cook for dinner...
I have a complicated and ever-changing relationship with goat's cheese...it never fails me in its performance and it never fails to impress me (you can find out a bit more on what I like in food here if you like) and I kinda collect it...because it's very easy to collect and has a fairly long fridge-life, I love trying out different ones and there's not many things I love more than goat's cheese on sourdough...but I think the best thing about it is not thinking about it exclusively in the toast/salad department...I've stuffed it in chicken and all sorts of things as a last minute and it's been fab.
But let's get down to the nitty gritty of this super salad that makes you look like an angel who has been on her knees all day scrubbing the front step when really you are in the digital world and spent most of ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, howdy, howdy howdy today for a Beach Cottage Too Easy recipe.
If you like cake, cream, sugar and chocolate, make this.
This is, rather than a recipe, a putting it together...as you know I am no dessert maker, but, I do make quite a few sweet things, because, somehow I have ended up with kiddos, who in their roles as offspring, believe that part of the deal, is that not only do I feed them a home-cooked meal with a few homegrown ingredients in there, yes, they also believe that dessert and not the kind that comes out of a packet is included too in this All-Inclusive Deal they call Parenthood.
So, this, for sure, is no culinary masterpiece, but if you are looking for something that is so very easy, dump-able, uses everyday ingredients and at the same time makes you look like you spent hours pulling things together plus tastes good....well, then this is for you.
Best though, you don't make this for yourself, if you have spent the most part of your week sitting on your derriere reading blogs...this my friend ain't low in the calories department...if, however, you are treating yourself to a delight in a mason jar, this is so for you.
I first had a version of this when at dinner back in Old Blighty with a girl, I once, in another life, caught the train up from our village to London with...she was a funny thing really...I am not quite sure how we got on...she was kinda prissy and a bit bothered by too much...I would run to the train flustered, having got up late, and she would have a spreadsheet on the train times, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, a few years later when we both had bambinos, I bumped into her again and we met up for playdates and dinner sometimes....this particular night, after a lovely meal she served up little bowls of creamy, cakey fruity stuff topped off with chocolate flake...it was delicious!
She didn't serve hers in little jars like this, hers were in a champagne glass and not quite so layered as these ones, plus she used tinned fruit not fresh or frozen.
Years later when said offspring kept requesting dessert, one day I wangled together somehow these from what was around in the fridge and they've been with us ever since.
Most likely, if you ever come here for dinner, and shock horror, you dont' bring the dessert with you, this, if you are lucky, will be what you will get.
Throw it all together, sprinkle a lil bit of chocolate on the top and the blog reading past-time you so rudely left in order to make this, is my friend, your oyster.
Beach Cottage Too Easy Layered Raspberry, Cream & Sponge Dessert
1 small maderia or butter cake or a pack of cupcakes (or of course make your own)
1/2 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup cream cheese
1/4 cup sugar
8 tbsp fruit
1 x chocolate Flake or chocolate bar for grating
1. beat the cream cheese until it is soft
2. whip the cream until soft peaks form
3. combine & add the sugar through
4. cut your cake into portions
& layer into the bottom of your jar
5. add a tablespoon of fruit
6. layer on top the cream combo
7. repeat
8. grate chocolate or Flake on top
*Beach Cottage Recipe Notes : this is just a guide really, you can use any cream that you have on hand...I have made this with clotted cream (don't even go there unless you want to seriously get these babies on your thighs), with double cream and I have even, in desperate times squirted in that, ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, well I thought it was time for some blogging tips here today, alongside a few nice flowers and shells ;-)
I was recently part of a blogger discussion group over at Kidspot and a couple of hours later had a few questions from girls who couldn't make it to the live chat, one was on my Facebook page and one via email, the Facebook one I will deal with in another Real Girl Blogging Tips post...the email one asked me what essentials do I think every blog needs?
Well I have been around here for a while now doing the blogging thing, so I should know this, yeah and I mused this on my walk by the sea this morning I thought well what do you only need?
...I think it is really very easy when blogging, whether or not you are blogging up there in the lofty heights of the Super Bloggers or you are just dipping your toe in the water, to get side-tracked by 101 million different things that are 'essential' to your blog and if you are someone like me who actually gets a thrill from reading blogging tips then you are in an even worse place because you will find yourself literally buzzing with these essential things to add/do/implement on your blog.
However, walking along, gulping down that brisk sea air today (no sunshine & clouds) I thought you actually don't need any of that professional blogging stuff to be successful...but there are a few things that are pretty much crucial ...and once I started to think about it I got it down to about 5 - these are the only things that you need to concentrate on...once you have read through take a look at some of the big girl's blogs...you'll see that actually they don't have bundles of stuff on their blogs...but they do have all of these...
So here are my top things that your blog must have
1. About Page
There are all sorts of About Pages out there, and if you search on it there are many different tips and ideas for what to have on yours
Whatever blogging platform you use, adding an About Me Page is easy, quick and simple and will do everything to grow your blog.
I like a long-ish About Page, I am inherently nosy and I like to know a bit more about the person but at the least you should have on it your name and where you are located. I also think a photo is good too...over the last year or so I think this has become more important in blogging - if you are hesitant about that as I was, you can try using sunglasses or a behind shot until you get comfortable.
There is nothing worse than stumbling upon a new blog and going to find out more to only be faced with a piddly little one liner About Me Page...well there is something worse, not having one at all!
2. Contact Page
The chances are someone, somewhere will want to contact you and you will be surprised what lands in your inbox once you put yourself out there on the world wide web with a blog.
Many bloggers also use this page to include details for PR's/brands that may want to contact them and some bloggers put their stats on there too.
A short, to the point and simple Contact Page works really well...whenever I have wanted to contact another blogger I am often very busy and have limited time so I don't want to hang around sifting through information looking for an email address, so concise and clear ...
G'day lovely Beach Cottage lovelies.
So, yeah, so on a roll people, so on a roll.
I feel kinda home accessory wired right now.
I am always telling people, if anyone ever listens, that blogging is all about passion, not that sort of passion, but about passion that makes one tick.
Things like this make me tick tick boom.
I love finding things that suit my budget and let me treat my home but look amazing too.
So without further adieu I introduce you, ladies of the beach, to the blue vintage glasses that I have been stroking for about a week or two now...
These glasses are from a little boutique I sometimes happen upon, this boutique sells also pet accessories, carpet cleaner, bras and compost...it's quite unique though.
And, thanks to my friend Marnie (she blogs over here, go take a look at her praying position, interesting), who just so happens to be one day having me over for a lil' Greek dinner, has let me in on the fact that we call Kmart....The KMart...with an accent ....as in 'I love The KMart'...just like her MIL does. Oh yeah. Love that.
So I have had my eye on reproduction vintage glass blue wine glasses and being trying to find real true vintage blue glasses for like ever.
Oh yes I have spied them in Frenchy boutiques, I have lusted after them in stores that I shouldn't even enter and I have put them back pretty quickly in those shops with the hand-written price tags. C'mon, you know the ones.
And, though all of the above have tempted me, muchly, really, even with my wardrobe stashing skills I just thought that, actually, I'd rather be saving that casherooni for our next trip overseas..
Hello The KMart.
Tick Tick Boom
Vintage style blue wine glasses.
Do not come to my old place and think you might pick up one of these and smile with pleasure at their handblown quality, their weight, and be secretly jealous that my wine glasses cost more than your car...friend, that would not happen...these do not feel like that...indeed these in a funny way reminded me of my baby girl, she was a tiny little thing, with stick legs, the tinsssssssiest ankles and wrists you ever did see, she slept sideways in her cot wedged in between rolled up blankets and would only settle attached to Mr Beach Cottage or I or a (dirty) pj top of mine scrunched up under her nose...the first few times I picked her up to cuddle, being used to Honeymoon Baby who weighed in at 9lbs at birth and has never really stopped growing, I nearly threw her little bird-cum-rat down covered body over my shoulder.
These glasses are like that...be careful or you might lose your wine down the front of your shirt.
But oh baby, we are not talking picking up here, we are not talking quality, we are not talking house accessory snobbery.
Beach Cottage ladies, we are talking aesthetics.
And this is what I need in my cottage.
Blue vintage style glass, paired with coastal / nautical / beach stuff on my deck.
It's The KMart.
Tune in tomorrow, tomorrow, I have more budget foofing for your home, or maybe it will be the dress that wraps me up in supermarket-chic and makes me feel like me again.
Good Day to you my friends, wanna come hang out on my deck, talk house accessories, The KMart and drink some wine from blue glasses?
Sarah
Yum!! This looks so tasty, and sounds easier than I would have thought…
Love the new beach cottage home too, bright and airy and beautiful
xo
It was a pleasure meeting your new French friend.
I’m sitting here trying to imagine the gorgeous day you described. What a wonderfully peaceful image. 
That is a neat bottle. What fun to make your own yogurt and granola.
Love the milk bottle…stunning! You have just reminded me that I have a vintage yoghurt bottle…not french, but I am assuming Australian vintage. Interestingly yoghurt is actually spelt “Yoghourt”…would love to put some home made yoghurt in her!
Have a great day,
Alison…
Love the bottle! Never saw one b4! Will have to try Yoghurt recipe, thx! Enjoy your weekend!
Is that easy to make yoghurt?
Hey girl, so glad you’re back and looking better then eva! Really love the milk bottle and the image you conjoured up for us. I love ladies spoting linen and vintage shopping. I raise my white flag to you. Not only are you the most creative people I ‘ve come to know, have a gorgeous home and a gorgeous family,but now………you’re making your own yogurt!!!!That’s it I’ve been slacking big time. I’m not going to try to make yogurt, but I’ll make something…. my children will have you to thank! Ps also love the new header…very snazzy! <3
Ooh la la! I love it! I have never tried to make yogurt, but if I had a lovely french milk bottle I think I’d be heating and stirring in a second! I think we must have the same kind of vintage loving DNA because if I found a lovely milk bottle like that those big ugly plastic jugs would be so gone!
hey sarah i love the vintage bottle.
What an awesome bottle Sarah. Fits right in there at the beach cottage.
Love the way you set up your pictures for the post today.
Debbie@houseatthelake
A deliteful read. Now I want to put my half and half in something pretty for my coffee in the morning.
I have vintage bottles somewhere! From thrifty long ago. I think I will gather them up.
You have inspired me. And I love the floating in linen thing!
I cheat re Yog but if you take a look at my blog for Saturday, January 03, 2009
http://yanchepangie.blogspot.com/2009/01/making-of-breakfast.html
you can see what I do!
I still make this all the time.
Off to the op shop…….
I have been wanting to make yoghurt for a long time now. I am inspired as I too have been dreaming of yoghurt, granola and fruit for breakfast. Sadly, I do not have a cool french bottle to put it in. I MUST go thrifting!
Such a great bottle I need one of those myself! For soy milk of course!
Always wanted to try making that yogurt, but have never gotten around to it!
Flick
Very ‘linen floaty’ and ‘vintagey’ effect for your mornings now! I have been trying to smuggle a couple of old milk jugs out of my Mum’s house without her noticing… no luck so far, she keeps catching me!
Hello Sarah,
Wow!!!
Your blog looks amazing!!!
LOVE it!
Hugs,
Maria
I invisioned you in slow motion reaching across the table for your prize and grinning from ear to ear then clutching the bottle to you like a new born child, and a beautiful child she is…what is her name? LOL Perhaps…Lilly or Loo Loo!
Oh it’s so cute! Love it!
I want one!!!….vintage milk bottle that is. Yep could easily trade in the plastic ones for one of those. As for the homemade yoghurt…who would of thought is was that easy. It’s now on my list of things to try.
I love your new milk jug/bottle! What a great find!
Love that post.
Love the bottle
Love that your making your own yoghurt – (using yoghurt in the milk is needed because of the ‘live culture’ which is needed-guess you already knew that.
Love that your going to make your own granola
All it needs now is for you to MAKE your own something in linen (I just loved how you equated that with all the other bits
I know!! make floaty baggy linen pyjamas, then it would look tres chic when you want to wear them on the school run, but definitely not now, too cold, but in summer……maybe?? Nah!!….didn’t think so.
I wonder was her floaty linen – a natural colour – I bet it was.
Actually that bottle is rather gorgeous.
Something homey about it. It looks likes it has a real purpose.
Bye for now
WOW! Look at you! Amazing what one change can inspire! Love your blog. Absolutely beautiful photos.
Sarah, I have several granola recipes, and one of them is on my blog if you want to check it out. Let me know if you want something different…like I said, I have several different ones.
Swoon, I want one too!
This yogurt making method sounds too easy, must try it.
xx
What a lovely bottle… isn’t it just the little simple things in life, that gives one so much pleasure.. love the new blog x
loving the photies…..you are soo funny- that is exactly what i would have done- and exactly the reason i learnt to make bread…and i became OBSESSED with baking bread…NON STOP so warn you kiddos that they will be yoghurted for months till you jump onto something else…& then just make a reasonable amount a day…well week!
& surely our friend Bill has a great ‘get-up-&-go’ granola in one of his books…he has a gorgeous museli in his ‘Everyday’ book….
love the new site-i’m just back from hols & everythings gone even lovlier….and i’m still looking for more of those chairs you have sitting in the ocean up there for us both!!
melissa x
Ohh! I must look for that recipe after this weekend. (I can’t look now as Jamie’s book is wrapped up and hidden, waiting to be given to my dad on Sunday, for Father’s Day.)
Funny …. just lately I have been hell bent on replacing as much plastic with other stuff as I can… even in the pantry if its plastic I’m wanting another way to store stuff…. surprising how good little changes make you feel. Bet you’ll enjoy your brekkie even more with that lovely bottle. Great find Sarah have a good week end.x
YUMMIE!!!!! I WANT THAT!!!!! but……..my translator translates your live milk into something really strange…..something like “living milk”…uhm……????? Don’t know if I want THAT?????
can you explane please???*GRIN*
Nice weekend!!!
Love the find, Sarah, as well as the photography! I’ve got a fab granola recipe to send your way…
Love the “Le bon lait” bottle/carafe. And the “yep, she was floating around in linen too” line made me lol!
As for homemade granola, just get all the dried fruits you love the best, some good quality rolled oats, bran, chopped almonds or pecans and some favourite flakes, mix it up & YUMMO!
I love putting greek yoghurt, honey and LSA on mine.
I want that bottle!! I love all things French and I love yogurt.
Haven’t tried it yet, but this granola recipe looks really good. I’ve made other recipes from her blog and they were great.
http://everybodylikessandwiches.com/2009/12/better-than-from-a-bakery-granola/
I looove your milk bottle!! I’ve seen some like this on my recent trip in France. French people are able to make ordinary things look extremely charming, don’t they??? And also I like how yummy looks your homemade yogurth. Your images are truly lovely. Like them!! xx Zaira
ok, bottle love! it’s so cool. photos are wonderful, are they with your new camera? Loved it all, happy weekend.
Love, love, love it!!
Ooh you will have to tell us how the yoghurt works out
Alison
I swooned so hard, I fell off my chair!!!!
My mornings will always feel a little empty now…
annie
I love the new/old milk bottle!!! And, I love the idea of making yogurt at home. I have recently gotten into Fage Greek yogurt with honey spooned on top. I love the tart flavor. I’ll have to give Jamie’s recipe a try and use my salvaged Bonne Maman jam jars to store it!!!
love the new look. Please stop by with a comment on our front entrance decision – need all the help I can get. Help
yummy. You got my eyes gazing and my stomach excited
Swooning over your new bottle and wanting one for myself!
Sarah!!!! LUV your blog home! JUST BEAUTIFUL!!! As usual, you hit it — spot on, girl!
I can’t believe how much talent just oooozes out of you —– constantly! You’re amazing…..
Your new milk bottle is adorable. What a great find! I can hardly wait to go vintage treasure shopping with my sis, Debbie, at a local flea market held one Sunday per month next weekend! Hoping to bring home some things you’ve inspired me to look for!
xoxo laurie@heavenswalk
I haven’t stopped by in a while, and just wanted to say I love your new banner! Beautiful, beachy pics
I have a bottle exactly like that except I broke the ceramic part :’(
The yoghurt sounds great! Mel xx
I love that bottle and I love the idea of homemade yogurt. I eat yogurt and granola most mornings, although not homemade and I am certainly lacking in the floaty linen department : ). I’m going to look up the recipe and give that a try.
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Sarah! I have just realised you said yoghurt milk. Is the recipe not for ordinary yoghurt, but for a milk,
just like those drinking yoghurts? That sounds interesting. Am so interested and would love to know.
I want to make some too!!
I would delight in finding an old milk bottle like that. I don’t drink milk though…only soy(lactose intolerance)…I do eat yogurt, but have not attempted to make my own yet. It is just too easy to buy healthy organic yogurt at my favorite Trader Joes Market. I do make homemade Granola…my children turned young adult/teens still ask me to make it. My 18 yrs old likes to take it to college for brain power snack! The recipe I use is from the Jenny Raymond Vegan Cookbook.
I do miss your cheery comments…stop by and say hi sometime. ox
HEY, I want a french friend like that!
AND, to float around in linen!!!
Think I’ll have to give it a go ~
just because it is SUMMER here in
the USA {sorry} and my kids love
to try new things in the summer.
We’ve already decided that we have
to learn to make from scratch pizza….
and creme brulee…..
so why not yogurt, as well???
Thanks for the inspiration!
Now, to find the right bottle…..
Hope your weekend is fab!
xx Suzanne
Ahhh! Sarah, I never imagined such a bottle existed. However, I was talking to a lady in a thrift store the other day who also sells at the same antique mall I’m in. My eyes froze on a clear glass bottle with a stopper like yours; and guess what????? It is a french lemonade bottle. She poked her head back around the corner as I made some sort of sound when I grabbed it off the top shelf. I am ecstatic! And it’s not going to the shop….yet:)
Sarah,
I am loving your new site. I absolutely love making my own yogurt – now I need an incredible glass bottle for my milk! lol The granola I make is from Sue Gregg, but I don’t know which book. It is easy and so good.
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
2. Mix together:
½ c. honey
1/4 c. olive oil or natural peanut butter
2 tsp. Vanilla extract
1 tsp. Cinnamon
3. Combine honey mixture with:
8 c. oats
½ c. sliced almonds
4. Spread evenly in a 9 x 13″ pan and bake for 30 minutes, stirring well every 10 minutes. Allow to cool.
5. Add 1 cup diced dried apricots or other dried fruit and store in tightly closed container. (If your family doesn’t eat it all before you can get it put away)