OT; New Yogurt Method Y&R - While You Were Sleeping-

[Guest guest]

> Anyone here a Young and Restless soap fan?

> If you've been watching you know the new head writer/executive

> producer has massacred the soap. Her latest is keeping pregnant

> Newman in a coma for weeks while the actress is on

> maternity leave IRL. The soap characters take turns sitting at her

> bedside and talk to every day in every episode. It is

> wearying to say the least. I make of most of the chat

> sessions. I found a way to multi-task.

> These tedious intervals are perfect for doing homemade yogurt.

>

> The camera pans down a Genoa City General Hospital corridor.

>

> ( I start to heat the milk setting the timer for ten minutes.)

> The buzzer rings and so does 's monitor. Commercial break.

>

> (Remove milk from stove, cover with cloth to cool for fifteen

> minutes.)

>

> Scene shifts to the courtroom where Niki and Victor Newman are in

> classic horn lock over whether to allow a Caesarian or let

> risk dying from preeclampsia. Bruno gives them a 10 for a great

> Passo Doble!.

>

> (Time to set the pan of milk in cold water to cool further)

>

> Back to the TV catch Phyllis on her cell phone

> during a court recess getting a update from Nick who is at

> the hospital

>

> ( Milk is now cool enough to add yogurt starter.)

>

> Lily Winters is at the Coffee House sucking up flattery from hunky

> Aussie, Cane. Affection is growing between them.

>

> ( Good bacteria are growing in the milk.

> as the yogurt is incubates at 100-110 degreesF for 28 hours )

>

>

> ( Same time next day, the milk has become yogurt and is ready to

> be chilled in the fridge)

>

>> remains in critical condition, ( as opposed to

>> yesterday?) a touch more critical ? She flatlines for a nano

>> second. I peek at the fermented yogurt. It's as still as

>> and more pale.

>

>

> The doctor emerges from 's room. He is wearing green scrubs

> and a voice announces:

>

> " Next on The Young and the Restless. "

>

> A woman in black chiffon without a head sashays by.

> ( and by tomorrow, FRIDAY. I will have mixed my nice thick yogurt

> with some honey and almond butter and will be eating it in front

> of the TV

> with a long handled parfait spoon.) Thank goodness I've made a

> double batch of yogurt to last past Monday in case

> wakes up I am not young but get restless when we run out of yogurt!

>

>

> Carol F.

> Celiac, SCD 8 years, Y&R 11 years

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