Farmers market

I really would like to support the local farmers as much as possible.  But when I went to the new farmer’s market at South Wales last weekend, I could not believe my eyes at the outrageous prices that were being charged!  One lady was selling freshly baked bread for $6.00 for one loaf of plain white bread!  Now I’m certain that her home made bread was probably healthier than the commercially produced bread, but I just can’t bring myself to pay $6.00 for one loaf!  I wonder how many loaves of bread that woman sold that day.

Well, it did pop the corn

I had the chance to try that new microwave pop corn popper that I mentioned a few days ago. It is supposed to pop “one service” of pop corn. That “one serving” was 1/4 cup of unpopped corn.

I used Orville’s pop corn because that is what was given to me. And I guess the commercials about it popping larger might be true because the corn popped so much that the lid had a hard time staying on the popper. So next time I’ll put it a little bit under the 1/4 cup. The popcorn came out quite good, actually. I think I’ll be using this little gadget quite a bit in the future!

Popcorn popping

A few years back I heard that there was a large controversy about how bagged microwave popcorn was bad for you. The kind that was already buttered, that is. Well it seems that the people that worked in the factories were getting sick from something that was in the butter. People were freaking out and throwing their microwave popcorn away! I didn’t do that; I reasoned that people in the factories were exposed to a lot more of the “bad stuff” than the average home-owner that only pops corn on occassion.

I did, however, stop buying microwave popcorn. I figured it was the right thing to do. Last month my niece gave us a big jar of regular, unpopped popcorn. My wife has been hinting at me cooking it. I’ve told her that I would, but somehow it has just never happend. Imagine my surprise when UPS delivered a box today addressed to my wife, and when she unpacked it we found two microwave popcorn poppers! These things are individual serving size, and are dishwasher safe. They are in the dishwasher as I write. I wonder how the popcorn will turn out!

Eggs

When I was a kid, I really didn’t like hard boiled eggs.  At all.  I did not even like fried eggs where the yolk was hard.  (Still don’t!)  Yet I love devilled eggs!  And egg salad sandwiches!  Seems to me that if I liked devilled eggs and egg salad sandwiches, that I’d like hard boiled eggs as well!  I was thinking about that this morning as my wife was boiling some eggs (to make devilled eggs) and I was trying to figure out why that was so.

After all, the major difference is that a little bit of mayo or salad dressing is mixed in.  Maybe a touch of mustard.  Then it came to me – I don’t like plain hard boiled eggs because they are so dry!  I need that little bit of extra moisture!  Whew – another one of the nagging mysteries solved!

Kool Aid

I’ve always enjoyed iced tea for a nice gold drink for the hot summer months. I grew up in an iced tea drinking house hold and we are creatures of habit. Anyway I have gotten to where I’m getting a bit burned out on drinking the same thing day in and day out and have decided to give a few of the Kool Aid flavors a try. They make a good amount of flavors these days so you’d think I’d find at least one that would be good.