A friend visiting me today mentioned that she would like to give up dairy and sugar someday, and I said I know how hard that is, but I'm making this great fruit mix that tastes like dessert to me, and I gave her some and she agreed. It reminds me of this dessert we used to have when we were kids with vanilla wafers and pudding and bananas and whipped cream, remember that? Right now, the berries from California are good, and when the bananas are good too (ripe), I mix together sliced bananas, berries, 1-2 tsp chia seeds (depending on the amount of fruit), and 1 serving of soy yogurt. I do that in the morning, and then by lunch and dinner, the chia seeds have expanded and gelled with the bananas and that's why it reminds me of pudding. So that's my dessert for lunch and dinner. It's also good without the bananas but not as sweet.
And since people also often ask me about how to make soy yogurt, here's a reminder of that. I use this yogurt maker and this yogurt starter, and a quart of unsweetened soy milk. I open the soy milk container (keep it at room temperature), pour in a bowl, add 1/8 tsp of the yogurt starter, and stir with a whisker. Then add the milk to each of the jars, put them in the yogurt maker without their lids, turn on the machine, wait 12 hours, and then it's done.
Put the lids on and refrigerate. This is the best non-dairy yogurt I have ever eaten. It's a good sour cream substitute so good with veggies, in mushroom stroganoff, on tacos and other Mexican-style foods. It's probably good in potato salad. And of course it's great with fruit.
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