Greek Yogurt or Yogurt Cheese

Greek Yogurt seems to be all the rage lately.

I've been making a gallon of yogurt a week and turning it into Greek Yogurt.

Simply drain your plain yogurt (to make your own yogurt go here) in a cheesecloth bag or better yet use a nylon paint filter bag. 

These bags are a breeze to wash out!

I bought mine at Home Depot.

Yogurt dripping in a 1 gallon nylon paint filter bag.

For Greek yogurt drip for at least 4 hours up to about 8 hours. The longer it is left to hang the drier your yogurt will be. For yogurt cheese let drip at least 12 hours and up to 24 hours.

Breakfast Sausage

This recipe works well with game meat.

For 30# meat:
1/2 cup salt (I used coarse Light Grey Celtic Sea Salt)
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup dried sage
3 Tbsp coarse Pepper
2 Tbsp Cayenne Pepper

Mix into the meat pieces and then grind to get the best flavor distribution.
You can mix the seasoning together and then use 1 Tbsp per pound of meat for smaller batches.

To fix-I make a "hamburger" type patty and fry on a fairly low setting in a pan rubbed with coconut oil. We also use it crumbled and cooked part way on pizza. If you cook it all the way before putting it on the pizza it will be too dry when the pizza is done.