Re: [lace-chat] microwave popcorn

2008-10-03 Thread Joy Beeson
If you eat *lots* of popcorn, you need a dedicated corn popper. Traditional poppers are sheet-metal pans with a crank sticking out of the lid, and holes in the lid -- given a choice, look for holes that are blisters that are open on one side, as if pushed up from below; the simple stamped holes

Re: [lace-chat] microwave popcorn

2008-10-03 Thread Bev Walker
yLOL I wore out a cornpopper like the traditional one you describe. We had one just for the fireplace, too, a contraption with a long handle (but now I don't have a fireplace). And with the new glass top stoves, not a good idea - i do miss the cast iron pan I used on my coil-top stove -- bye

RE: [lace-chat] microwave popcorn

2008-10-01 Thread jeanette
Popcorn is very well known in South Africa. As a child we grew our own popcorn and my mother tried to teach us some farming principles - gathering the crop, deciding how much we are going to eat and how much to keep for seed for the next year!!! We always popped them in a saucepan on the stove in

[lace-chat] microwave popcorn

2008-09-30 Thread Bev Walker
Hi everyone Thanks Micki for the Muffin-in-a-Mug recipes. I had some flax seed that I ground in my coffee mill to make flax meal and tried one of the recipes. What a cool way to make a muffin - Fun! tasty! (effective!). the coffee mill is now very cleaned out, too. :p But I love to find out new

[lace-chat] microwave popcorn

2008-09-30 Thread Micki Cameron
I do like the idea of savoury popcorn! thanks for doing the trials, Bev - will be trying your method soon Micki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bev Walker Sent: 30 September 2008 17:23 To: lace-chat@arachne.com Subject: [lace-chat

Re: [lace-chat] microwave popcorn

2008-09-30 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:22, Bev Walker wrote: I don't know if anyone outside North America is into popcorn. The first time I ever saw and tasted popcorn was in Bulgaria, when I was 13. It took me another decade and a trip here, before I tasted it again... -- Tamara P Duvall