I'm almost there! I really can't believe how simple this has been. And how painless. I'm really enjoying being back in the kitchen every day and eating really good food. I went out and bought that new, smaller belt yesterday.
Now, popcorn is one of my favorite foods. Growing up, dad would get out the old crank, stovetop popper and fill a roasting pan with popcorn. It took 3 1/3 cup batches to fill the roasting pan. We would melt a quarter pound of butter, drizzle it on the popcorn, sprinkle with salt and toss. He would fill his bowl from the roaster and sit in his recliner. The tree of us girls would lay on the living room floor in front of the TV with our roasting pan full of popcorn and dig in. Popcorn is one of my best family memories.
Fast forward 40 years. I have had air poppers and they made me happy, but I gave the last one away when I moved because of storage space. Dumb move. So I got addicted to microwave popcorn. And an addiction it was. I finished my last box of Orville Redenbacher's Movie Theater Butter Popcorn right before I accepted this challenge. I had ignored the ingredients list for years. I don't even want to think about the toxins I was putting into my body.
So here I was, in a popcorn free world. I had to come up with a plan. Soon I will buy a stovetop popper. In the interin, I had come up with some pretty good popcorn. I pour 1/4 of organic corn from the Alameda Natural Grocery ( http://www.alamedanaturalgrocery.com/. ) into a medium size paper bag, fold the top and into my microwave for 1 minute 50 seconds. At 2 minutes it starts to burn, but that's my microwave. Then I melt 2 T. butter and drizzle over the corn and top with a drizzle of olive oil, sprinkle with a little pink Himalayan salt and then about a 1/4 tsp. Galena Street Rub. Love those rubs! The olive oil gives a touch of sweetness, the rub gives it zip. Take THAT Orville!
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