Guilty Pleasures (food/drink)

[MrKiwi]

I have a soft spot for ice coffees

[LadyDraco]

That's way better looking then just a plain old ice coffee


WANT !!!!!

[Delicate Snowflake]

That's way better looking then just a plain old ice coffee


WANT !!!!!

+ 1

[MrKiwi]

In NZ, a proper iced coffee comes with vanilla ice cream in it and cream on top. Made from freshly ground beans. Mmmmm

[MrKiwi]

And this is what I call a rip-off dessert. What you get is all out of proportion to the cost in the wrong way!

[LadyDraco]

Yikes...

Yeah HB calls that gourmet .... lol

[MrKiwi]

Just because I could I went out for breakfast this morning. Mmmmmm

[diogenes009]

tl;dr: I'm bored again.

I'm going to make some popcorn.

1/2 cup un-popped kernels: 346 calories
1 tablespoon coconut oil: 126 calories
1/2 teaspoon (or more) Flavacol: 0 calories (Let us not be crass and speak of such base things as sodium.)
Total calories for movie theater grade popcorn: 472

Now, that isn't exactly broccoli, but it ain't death on a stick either.

My secret Movie Theater Grade Popcorn recipe. Really. It's secret. Burn this before reading.

1) Take a large pan or soup pot and a clear lid. Clear lids let you monitor the popcorn better, but aren't strictly necessary. I use two pot holders to hold the lid down while shaking. When I was a kid, we used a vented pressure cooker (locking lid!) to make sure there were no incidents.
2) Melt a tablespoon of coconut oil in the pan over "medium high"/"7of10"/"whatever gas that is" and then wait until it just starts to smoke.
3) Pour in the 1/2 teaspoon of Flavacol and 1/2 cup of popcorn. Cover and swish the corn around in the oil and Flavacol until evenly distributed.
4) Let it sit on the heat until it starts popping and then give it a shake every once in a while to keep the kernels from burning while their mates pop.
5) Once you think that all the kernels have popped, set the pan with lid still on it, to the side, off the heat. Give it a shake or two after 5-10 seconds or so and let it sit for a while longer. You should hear a few more pops.
6) Serve it up. It should be salted and flavored enough from the Flavacol, and any additional butter or flavors is gilding a lily, if you ask me. But it's not like I'm going to show up at your house to shame you for pouring half a stick of Land-o-Lakes on it, now am I?

"What is Flavacol?" I hear you ask. Well, it is what they flavor the madly overpriced popcorn with at the theater. You can buy it in restaurant supply places and, of course, on Amazon. It comes in a quart sized paper milk-type carton. It's less than $10 for a 35oz lifetime supply. You use it in the popping. You do not sprinkle it on the popped corn. So, not going to work in your airpopper. The ratio is about 1 teaspoon of Flavacol per cup of unpopped corn.

Coconut oil you grab at the grocery store, I paid $4.99 for a 16oz jar which was the cheapest, if not the smallest, one they had. When I originally bought coconut oil I got 5 2oz packets for $5.99 on Amazon. Which would be convenient, but I ended up using less than a packet, about 1/3 each time I made popcorn. The stuff at the store seems to be packaged to appeal to the people using it for cosmetic uses as much, or more, than for food uses.

[Delicate Snowflake]

Today's guilty pleasure:

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Washed down with this [perhaps the best thing to come out of NZ apart from Mr Kiwi]:

[MrKiwi]

mmmmm

And Monteiths Black, my favourite.

[diogenes009]