Pop On, Pop!

[billroper]

Katie was begging for "yellow popcorn" yesterday afternoon. What this meant was that she wanted a bag of the stuff from the store covered with the fake butter substance and salt that you find when you cruise the chips and snacks aisle. Daddy promised her something better.

So last night, daisy_knotwise staggered off after dinner for her long-delayed nap and I stayed downstairs with the girls watching TV. I grabbed a microwave-safe dish and threw about a third of a stick of real butter in it, then popped it into the microwave to melt. When that was done, I filled the microwave popper with popcorn and set the process in motion.

While the popcorn popped, Katie went to the cabinet and pulled down three of the red and white striped plastic popcorn containers that we'd bought for the purpose. And when the popping was done, I put a third of the popcorn into each container, drizzled butter into each one, added popcorn salt, and shook well.

It was excellent popcorn. Katie and Julie concurred.

And Katie has been bugging Mommy ever since for more of Daddy's yellow popcorn. I've explained to her that this kind of popcorn is for special occasions.

We'll see how that goes...

Comments

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

I just bought some plastic popcorn containers like that at a yard sale for a friend who has a movie theater style popper at his house

[hofdave.livejournal.com]

I popped some popcorn in our air-popper last night - yours sounds better.

[jeff-duntemann.livejournal.com]

Real butter is good with everything!

And popcorn (yellow or otherwise) is a whole lot better than a lot of things Katie could be asking for...

[kizoku42.livejournal.com]

I do mine in a round bottom wok. 2 to 1 popcorn and oil. Pops -all- the kernels because they shake down into the very bottom. Use olive oil instead of butter, too. Very tasty.