Snacktastic.

Action shot. It's such an exciting snack.

I’ve recently rediscovered the awesomeness of popcorn.  When I was a kid, my family had an air-popper and we’d have popcorn as a treat with movies on family movie nights.  However, the invention of microwave popcorn kind of stole the air-popper’s thunder, and the much-loved appliance was put to the back of the kitchen cupboard in place of those handy little microwaveable bags. 

Recently, a good friend of mine left the Rock and offered me her air-popper when she left.  I was ecstatic.  First of all, it’s identical to the one my family had when I was a kid (though, would they really have changed much?), and second of all, she even threw in some kernels.  Awesome. 

I put a scoop of Earth Balance in the little melting tray, plugged it in and let ‘er rip.  A minute or so later, I was popping up a storm and two minutes after that, I was on the couch with the perfectly seasoned bowl of popcorn, watching Lost in Austen.  I am not sure that it gets much better than that, unless chocolate had been thrown into the mix.

Snackeriffic.

My toppings of the day?

• Earth Balance
• Dulse flakes
• Herbamare Bombay Seasoning
• nutritional yeast flakes

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Awesome...no?

While the popcorn is going to have to stay unpopped while we attempt the South Beach Diet’s first few weeks, rest-assured that the air-popper has made a comeback in our house.

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