Go Go, Yogurt, Go

Yep.  I’m really diggin’ this homemade yogurt dealio more and more.

A few days ago I hit a Frugal grandslam, thanks in large part to my cheap yogurt.  Here’s the 411:

I roasted up one of my cheap Turkeys a few days ago.  A few days later I knew I could squeeze one final meal out of the shrinking carcass.  That would be the fifth turkey inspired creation from this one oh-so-giving  bird.

Inspiration was starting to lose steam, though.  So I knew it was time to consult one of my go-to cookbooks, The Use-It-Up Cookbook A Guide for Minimizing Food Waste by Lois Carlson Willand.

I found just the recipe I needed, Creamed Turkey Paprikash.  I had everything it called for except…sour cream.  The recipe actually called for a CUP of sour cream which is a lot of sour cream.  Fattening.

So instead I substituted a cup of my homemade non-fat yogurt.  It worked great, and this dish was really yummy.

To summarize, here’s how I figure my el cheapo grandslam: Five meals from dirt cheap turkey; substituted cheap non-fat homemade yogurt for expensive fattening store-bought sour cream; had enough left-overs of Creamed Turkey Paprikash for nice contribution to Thursday night Free Dinner Buffet Night.  Straight outta the park!