POPCORN!!

Love recently invested in a large tub of unrefined extra virgin coconut oil and filled up a jar for me. Over the last year I've been kicking a lot of old bad nutrition habits and one of my worst long time bad habits was microwave popcorn. Blast O Butter. The really bad stuff. It was the last thing that I was cooking on a regular basis in the microwave and it is a late night staple. One night I got home exceptionally late and inebriated and my roomies were already tucked away in bed so I made some popcorn with refined coconut oil on my camp stove outside. WOW. wow. WOW!! REAL popcorn! No microwave chewyness. No "butter". I was hooked.

Even more hooked when I tried it with UNrefined coconut oil- deep rich coconut taste on fluffy popcorn. I wanted that taste with curry and I knew Love, being from a curry loving culture, would want that taste, too.



I forgot to bring my loose popcorn and all he had was one bag of the Terrible Paper Bag Popcorn. So I was on a mission to save the popcorn from whatever lie within the paper bag. Orange poison. Curious, I put a generous fingerful in my mouth. Neon flavor. Absurd and single faceted. In context it is addictive, the flavor overrides all kinds of common sense mechanisms my body uses to communicate proper nutrition requirements. The real danger of poison-food doesn't come from what it does to your figure or arteries, it is in how it blinds your perception of food and your body.

In a mesh strainer, I ran the contents of the bag under hot water until I couldn't see anymore orange. Still greasy, of course, so I lobbed on the baking soda, again hot water, still greasy, soaked in vinegar, again hot water, wiped off with paper towels. Love thought it was OK to eat at that point but I swear I still tasted some of the Poison in the final product. We ate it all but I will have to make the real deal very soon. I don't think the microwave bag popcorn is intended to be used on the stove. Here recipe is:

Coconut Curry Popcorn

1/2 cup loose popcorn
3 tablespoons unrefined extra virgin coconut oil
1 tablespoon your favorite curry
sea salt to taste
the lid that goes to your pot

Melt the oil in a pot. You'll need a pot big enough to hold all the popcorn when it is popped but small enough to where the oil will come up about halfway on the kernels. Put the kernels in, cover, when they start to pop, shake the shit out of it (keep the lid on though). When the popping slows or you think you're burning it take the pot off the heat and give it a few more good shakes. Take the lid off and salt and curry it up. Enjoy.