It is widely understood and practiced that the best part about popcorn is licking up a the little extra leftover bits of topping at the bottom. And it is widely misunderstood that vegetarians have little to no recourse for protein beyond soy and "rice and beans"- two protein sources I get tired of very easily. They may never know nutritional and textural joy of licking up little bits of the beautiful multicolored topping from
Perfect Protein Popcorn
1/4 loose popcorn
2 tablespoons unrefined coconut oil
5 tablespoons nutritional yeast (don't judge me, its delicious)
3 tablespoons hemp seeds
a good pinch or two of Red Alaea Salt (I got mine from cocoacinnamon, its delicious and nutritious but more importantly I consider it crucial to the color story of the topping bits at the popcorn- red salt and green hemp seeds)
Heat the oil on medium high, add the popcorn, shake the shit out of it when it starts to pop. Transfer to bowl and top with the delicious bits.
If you're wondering why your hemp seeds are so expensive and dollar mcburgers are only a dollar, please contact these folks. Both hemp seeds and nutritional yeast contain a "complete" protein. And vegetarians don't get what?
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
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.
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.
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