When I got back from class yesterday I was starving and totally grumpy at the thought that I didn't have any snack foods on hand that I wanted to eat. Didn't want apples, didn't want hardboiled egg, didn't really want cheese, and definitely didn't want to spend the time on washing and roasting my squash seeds. Damn this local food thing anyway, right?
So...I made popcorn! I don't have an air popper and normally like to pop my corn in coconut oil. Uh...that's not local. Butter is my new go-to fat source, so I gave it a try.
Melt the butter, add a layer of popcorn kernels, cover and wait for the first kernel to pop. Take the pan off the heat for a minute (this step isn't crucial to making popcorn, but it IS crucial to maximizing your popcorn-making. It reduces the number of unpopped kernels drastically, and the unpopped kernels that are left are often toasted and chewable as Corn Nuts. Try it sometime). Put it back on the heat and finish popping, shaking the pan so the corn doesn't burn. Salt and eat.
The butter browned but I like browned butter so that wasn't a problem. The heirloom popcorn I got at Local Roots, a bag of tiny multicolored kernels, popped up into the cutest miniature popcorns you ever saw, and it was delicious.
Crisis averted.
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