Along the same line - cold cucumber yogurt soup should be made with plain yogurt. Salted cucumber dill scallions chicken stock and vanilla yogurt - inedible to say the least. The memory makes me shudder.

And if you forget the vanilla in your pound cake recipe, don't think that it will work if you sprinkle some vanilla on top of the half baked mini cakes ---- nope, didn't help one little bit.

Thanks, I feel better!! :)

I have accidentally bought vanilla yogurt because the container looks almost identical to the plain yogurt container, and now I buy a completely different brand so that I don't make that mistake again. I now buy Fage Greek yogurt, and they do not make a vanilla version. I am still careful to make sure I am only buying plain. I add my own fresh fruit when I want it to have fruit.

Lars

Lars, same here, I meant to buy 2 plain, but grabbed one of each because the containers are so similar. The difference in sugar content between the plain and vanilla is enough to make one stick to plain.

After switching to plain yogurt, the next step for me was plain goat or sheep milk yogurt. They are fantastic if you like those kind of flavors.

Lars - that is my favorite brand of yogurt, especially their full fat version. It's got such a nice smooth taste and not overly sour. My second favorite is Krinos but I can only find it at one family owned grocery store near me. Nothing beats making my own yogurt but sometimes you just don't have enough time.

My secretary invited me to dinner when she moved into her first apartment. She was quite sheltered and had lived at home with her parents until she was in her late 20s. She made her family's favorite recipe, "creamed tacos." My recollection was it was mashed potatoes mixed with cooked ground beef and maybe onions and some other seasonings rolled in tortillas then laid side by side in a rectangular dish. The some sort of cream sauce was poured over it. One bite and I knew she had mixed up evaporated milk with sweetened condensed milk! Interesting flavor combination. She, too, realized it didn't taste like what Mama made, so I was able to gently explain the difference between Pet milk and Eagle Brand milk.

I moved, we lost touch. But if her cooking skills ever developed to match her secretarial skills, she would have been Cordon Bleu quality!

So she used the condensed on purpose?! I can relate, when I first started cooking I wanted to make spaghetti sauce and when I realized we were out of tomato sauce, I decided ketchup would be an acceptable substitute. And yes, it tasted as awful as it sounds. :o)

Bless her heart. Yes, she used the condensed on purpose. She had no idea there was a difference. She just knew it was "canned milk" and Eagle Brand was in a can. She was extremely bright, just a little inexperienced in the kitchen.