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Popcorn!

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Happy National Popcorn Day!

In honor of this day that is so close to my heart, I will share a few toppings that we love.

And I will make popcorn. Lots of popcorn. 🙂

The ways we love our popcorn. All are guessing 6 quarts popped (about 1/2 heaping cup of kernels) and salted popcorn. If melted butter is mentioned, it’s 2 T of salted butter.

Plain: With Kosher Salt and melted butter. About 2 tsp of Kosher salt.

BBQ: With about 1 heaping Tablespoon leftover BBQ rub and melted butter. We don’t salt this one first.

Pizza: 2 Tablespoons Parmesan or Romano, 1 tsp dried oregano, 1/2 tsp tomato powder (we got ours from Amazon (affiliate link))

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Italian: 2 Tablespoons Parmesan or Romano, 1 tsp dried oregano, 1 tsp garlic powder

Wings: Don’t butter! Mix 2T of hot sauce (like Franks or Durkee’s) with the melted butter before you pour the butter over. Add 1 T blue Cheese powder (again, from Amazon (again, affiliate link)). This powder also makes a good instant blue cheese dressing if you are desperate and don’t have the time or  ingredients to make real Blue Cheese dressing.
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(Our vegetarian friends really love this one. 🙂 )

Curry: 1 tsp Curry  powder, 3/4 tsp each  tumeric and ground ginger and a pinch of cayenne

Old Bay: 2 teaspoons of Old Bay Seasoning!

 

Wet toppings:

pour on carefully or spritz onto salted popcorn

Worchestershiresauce

Malt vinegar

 

Special popcorns:

Sugar popcorn: This one you have to cook differently. Heat your oil in the popping pot with three kernels of popcorn. When the third one pops, add the 1/2 cup of popcorn and 3 Tablespoons of white sugar.  Cook as usual.  Serve as is, no butter or salt.

Happy Popcorn Day!

 

 

 

 

 

Food, Uncategorized

cooking new things.

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I have discovered, in cleaning up my to do lists, that I have enough recipes clipped that is I make a brand new trial recipe a day, I will probably die before I finish trying them all.

 

Obviously, not all of them will be worth trying— I have been clipping recipes to try since I was about 7 years old (I was that weird kid who bought the cookbook at the souvenir stand when everyone else was buying the squirting cameras and the space ice cream), but I am going to make an attempt because I love cooking, it *normally* calms me down, and I currently have a 13 year old son who is never NEVER not hungry. Yay for me!

 

So I packed up a box of loose clippings and I have a 2 foot pile of books with recipes flagged (the whole book is not one I want to keep) and I am going to put forth as much an effort as I can to see what I can make.

 

Today I am making a meringue-y frosting, because we have 10 egg whites in the fridge, 2 from I don’t know what, 6 from an attempt to make Almanzo Wilder’s ice cream (3 were a mistake and 3 were from the SUCCESS— it’s so good!) and 3 were from a cooked Amish dressing from a souvenir cookbook from 30 years ago. Yes, I know that’s 11 egg whites. The recipe calls for 10 and I play loose and fast that way.

 

I am also attempting to make a ‘carmeled sugar’ a friend sent with a ‘hey, this looks interesting.’

 

So, wish me luck.

 

I am also trying to clean my studio, because it has become a mess, I have my exam for Surface Embroidery looming (hence the studio) and bills and taxes and a messy desk and my parents’ estate stuff to clear up. Yes, I am bonkers. But as I said above, cooking makes me happy and I deserve to be happy.

 

So… here I go.