I got my Kefir grains yesterday...I had kefir this morning!

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WOOHOO!! I picked up grains from Carole yesterday; when I got home, I put it

into a quart of whole milk and stirred it twice before I went to bed last night;

when I got up this morning, I had a really NIC jar of kefir...I tried to strain

it through the staniless steel strainer I picked up yesterday, but the mesh is

too fine for the thickened milk to straint hrough...so I grabbed a 'sock' of

garlic I got at the store yesterday, too; its 3 heads of garlic in a plastic

expandable fine mes..and washed the mesh and used that..and I left the kefir

grains in the 'fermenting jar' and added warm milk and pout it back over by the

fridge where its warm, and put the strained kefir into the fridge to

chioll..and I just drank some of the chilled kefir a bit

ago...ooohhh...YYUUMMM!!!! It was a bit more effervescent as compared to my

first taste this morning after I strained it...and it seemed to be a little bit

tarter, too...

I offered some to my husband, (my picky eater) and he said " It needs stuff added

to it " ...*sigh*...so, next week, I am going to have to pick up some stevia and

frozen strawberries and frozen pineapple and make smoothies for him so I can at

least get some into him at least a few times a week...

As for myself, this next batch, I think I will let the strained kefir sit a bit

before I put it into the fridge; see if it gets a bit more tart or not.

So far, so good...--Kim