Vanilla Frozen Yogurt

I forgot to take a picture of our delicious, creamy, tangy and smooth frozen yogurt tonight. I was so excited to have it turn out that I forgot to grab the camera. We just grabbed spoons and dug right in!

We recently got an ice cream maker. It's a Cuisinart 2 QT Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt and Sorbet maker. There was a little bit of a learning curve with it, and I made banana ice cream before I made the frozen yogurt (so, a few days ago) but it wasn't good and not worth blogging about. It had way too much banana (GASP!) and tasted like, well, a cold and overripe banana. Anyway, I discovered that to be successful in your homemade ice cream (via a machine, though) endeavour, the assembled ingredients should be chilled for a while until you put it in the machine, and you should not take out the frozen bowl until, like, seconds before you put the stuff in.

I winged tonights recipe and was so happy to have it turn out. I need to try a frozen yogurt recipe that uses gelatin because this stuff melts fast and I know that will help. However, laziness won out. C'est la vie. At least it was delicious!

Lisa's Fast and Lazy Vanilla Frozen Yogurt

1 cup of plain whole milk (5%) yogurt
1 cup of vanilla whole milk (5% or so) yogurt
1/2 cup of milk (used 1%)
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp sugar
splash o' vanilla

Mix together in some sort of bowl (not the ice cream maker bowl!) and chill for a couple of hours. When ready, freeze according to your maker's directions. Eat immediately, 'cause it's gonna melt. Everyone loved this, especially Little Miss. She kept grabbing my face and squeezing my cheeks, grinning wildly and crowing, "I eating fwozen yogurt! It's weally dood!" I thought it tasted just like yogen fruz. I think next time I'll add some smashed berries to it near the end of the mixing cycle.