Sunday, March 9, 2008

D-I-Y Popcorn!

We try not to eat microwave popcorn anymore because of the partially hydrogenated everything...but sometimes (especially on a Sunday evening!) nothing sounds better than a big bowl of popcorn. So, guess what? You can make your own microwave popcorn. Here's how:

--Get a bunch of lunchbags--those brown kind like the cool kids had when I was in middle school
--dump a little bit of popcorn into a bag--I probably put in 1/8 cup, and it was a little bit too much.
--bend the end over and tape it good with scotch tape
--microwave it on high for 3 minutes, listening until the pops lessen.

That's it! It worked, and now we'll experiment with seasonings and so on. It's hardly even a recipe, but I thought I'd pass it along since we're excited to have this super-cheap, sorta healthy (hey, I'll dump *real* melted butter on it!) snack.

--heidi

2 comments:

Dim and Jana said...

Great idea... we'll have to get some of those paper bags and popcorn. Fun.

Diane said...

We, too, decided to forego microwave popcorn (although we love it & it's so easy). So we're going to try this while traveling in our RV! Thanks.

Just an added note for anyone thinking of getting one of those glass microwave popcorn makers - we tried it & it burns the popcorn very easily, then you have to wash the darn thing! especially if you put butter in the top of the cover.