I'm in love with making my own sugar-free frozen yogurt. I've gotten rather good at it, I might add, but this flavor so far has just topped them all. It even has a super secret ingredient, ok well two actually, that I'm going to willingly divulge here.

10 oz. frozen or fresh strawberries

1 quart of a mild unflavored yogurt. I used Danon

1 pint of heavy cream

1 cup half and half

1 1/3 cups granulated fructose [If you are using sugar use 2 cups]

½ teaspoon salt

a scant 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper. *that's secret ingredient number 1*

In a bowl thaw 10 oz. of frozen whole strawberries that are unsweetened. Mash until a course puree is achieved. Macerate with the fructose [or sugar if you are substituting it], salt, and black pepper. Maceration is a process where the sugar and salt draw many of the juices and flavor essences out of the fruit. Macerate the strawberries by mixing the mashed fruit with the other ingredients and leaving in the refrigerator for an hour or 2 to sit. Mix with the other ingredients directly in your ice cream freezer. Secure lid and motor on top and add 6 inches of ice around canister, sprinkle 2 cups of rock salt on the ice and then top off the ice with more ice until bucket is full, add 3 cups cold water. Let freeze for 30 minutes. Mature in freezer for a few hours and enjoy.

Secret ingredient number two. Instead of using regular granulated fructose or sugar, use vanilla infused. To accomplish this put one cup of preferred sweetener in the bottom of a clean and dry wide mouth mason jar. Stand a plump vanilla bean up in the sweetener. Bury the bean with more sweetener until the jar is full. Shake your sugar for the next couple of weeks every morning or evening. The end product is a subtle but wonderful sweetener that sets your hot drinks off, and makes this frozen yogurt a knockout!