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Yetzirah

Lactose Tolerance
Tue Mar 27 2012

  I am not much of a collector. But I do have a few weaknesses. One is for bowls. I dearly love them. But I keep myself in check pretty well in their acquisition. Most of the time. The other is milk bottles. I don't know WHY I like them so much. But I'm drawn to them like a bee to pollen. Not long ago, Hub Man and I went shopping at Whole Foods. (There's your first mistake right there.) Don't I know it. It's like the Disneyland of food. Well, there I was, minding my own business, browsing the dairy aisle, and I saw it. A bottle full of milk. A bottle unusual size and shape, with cream floating at the top. Here's their website. http://www.stbenoit.com/html/milk.html Real milk! I thought. The kind I used to buy from a rancher years ago in gallon mayonnaise jars. I didn't look at the price… (Yes you did, you little disingenuous prevaricator.) Okay I glanced at it, but my milk bottle obsession overrode my Scotswoman's genetic programing and I grabbed it. Since that day, I have ended up grabbing three of them on separate trips. I decided that I NEEDED at least three of them. Hub Man accused me of being a hoarder. Which if you knew him, and if you know me, is high jocularity indeed. Pot / Kettle. Now that the dreamy creamy milk has been consumed by the male person of the household who likes dreamy creamy, I put my non fat milk in them… They make me very happy. Somewhere in my medulla oblongata.   (You mean somewhere in your monkey brain?) No, I mean they make me happy in a very primitive place deep inside. My happy place.   (You are very easily amused.) I know. It's one of my finest qualities.
5 Comments
  • From:
    Mamallama (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Mar 27 2012
    I'm in love with milk bottles, too. Something so old fashioned about them. I love country old fashioned, especially and they reek of that. Uh huh. :o)
  • From:
    Yetzirah (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Mar 27 2012
    Mamallama…. Shall I pick one up for you? hee hee
  • From:
    InStitches (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Mar 28 2012
    No wonder there was cream floating on top......... it's milk from Jersey cows! I was raised on the stuff; dreamy creamy is right. There is nothing better for making pudding or custard. That stuff they sell in the plastic jugs doesn't even come close.......more like chalky water. And the bottle, well that just puts it over the top. :)
  • From:
    Cheryl Taylor (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Mar 28 2012
    You just HAD to show me those, huh?
  • From:
    404error (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Mar 28 2012
    Straus Family Creamery also sells milk in glass bottles and is widely available at any Raley's/Bel Air, or dozens of other stores. ( http://www.strausfamilycreamery.com/?section=Products Sorry, I don't know how to make a link work here, in comments, yet.) They are also "gently pasteurized" (although at a slightly higher temperature) and non-homogenized, certified organic and KOSHER. Hey, if it's good enough for The French Laundry, it's probably too good for me. (heheheh) I totally <3 their painted, traditional milk bottles, and they look amazing with pruned branches of spring blooms like almond, peach or cherry in them, although it may be too late to do that since the storms of the last week or so. They have butter, yogurt and ice cream, too. If you want yogurt cheese you just put a dampened basket-style coffee filter into a kitchen strainer set into a bowl and put the yogurt in it overnight, covered with plastic wrap, into the fridge. In the morning, voila, yogurt cheese in the strainer and a bit of super-nutritious whey in the bottom of the bowl. That whey is pretty good "hidden" in a smoothie, too. Yogurt cheese is pretty darned good spread on a bagel, or my favorite, toasted raisin bread with a drizzle of honey. Mmmmm. Whole Paycheck (as Whole Foods is widely nicknamed) is, indeed, Disneyland for food, right down to the pricing. One can buy almost anything the heart desires there, raw or cooked, but BOY, is it ever $PENDY! Still, I really enjoy "window" shopping there.