Yogurt Onion Dip recipe

OK - I'm clueless... anyone heard of "yogurt cheese" or have a clue where one would find a "yogurt cheese maker"?  Anyway - the recipe sounds good...

Mona-Lisa Onion Dip Share  Today at 12:39pm Serve with vegetable crudités or your favorite chips or crackers.

Ingredients:
2- 32oz. containers Oikos organic plain yogurt (to yield 2 cups yogurt cheese*)
½ Vidalia onion, grated
1/8 to ½ tsp. garlic powder
1 tbs. extra virgin olive oil
1/8 to ½ tsp. white wine vinegar
Salt and white pepper to taste
1 tbs. chives, chopped
1 tbs. parsley, chopped

Directions:
*For yogurt Cheese:
Using a yogurt cheese maker or layered cheese cloth, strain the whey from 2 quarts of yogurt for 3-6 hours in the refrigerator. This should yield 2 cups of yogurt cheese.

Mix all ingredients together and serve.

Serves 16.

Not sure what a yogurt cheese maker is but there was chef on tv years ago that used this in alot of dishes. Basically he would put the yogurt in a small wire mesh strainer lined with cheesecloth and let the whey drain out of it. That would make the yogurt a consistency of soft cheese, think cream cheese consistency. I believe that is what this recipe is calling for. I could be wrong. Does sound good though and using the Oikos it would be high in protein too.

easy onion dip
 get a container of Greek yogurt like 6 oz and mix it wth the podered onion soup mix to tase, takes 5 minutes and is really good

Here's what the Food Network has to say. Looks like an easy process to get the yogurt to the consistency of cream cheese.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/yogurt-cheese -recipe/index.html