Real Popcorn! Easy to Make

Every once in awhile I get a hankering for popcorn, but it must be real popcorn. To my taste the air poppers produce tasteless plastic, or Styrofoam.  And I wouldn't use the packaged microwave popcorn even if we had a microwave.

I make my popcorn in a good stainless steel pot with a lid and some oil. You need a large bowl and some table salt handy.

• put in just enough popcorn to barely cover the bottom of the pot
• check that all the kernels are good, and there are no stones
• add a bit of oil
• cover
• give it a shake
• put on high flame
• the minute you hear the "popping" shake again
• when it pops again, lower the flame a little
• if the top starts to lift when still popping carefully pour some of the popcorn into a bowl and quickly re-cover
• quickly take off flame when it stops popping and pour into bowl
• add a bit of salt

You'll be amazed at how much popcorn you get out of a small amount of kernels.

Enjoy real popcorn!!

A New Type of Nosh

I didn't even get to post all the posts I had planned from my last visit to Phoenix, before my mother died.

When I was in Phoenix, we bought a new for me type of nosh, the type of thing you can eat instead of pretzels or potato chips.

They are maki rolls, seaweed wrapped rice crackers.  They do taste a bit like seaweed and "ocean".  I decided to get them, because I thought it would "balance" me, since I would be traveling twice almost half way across the world, in barely a week.  That's from Israel to Phoenix and back.   They have the OU, so they are kosher.  I've never seen them in Israel.