Freshly made Popcorn
January 24, 2008 – 7:14 pm by wiffyI want to learn to take better food photos so I bought some place mats and cutlery from Ikea. You’ll start seeing these pretty often in my future blog piccies, hee. The popcorn pictures are actually a practice at taking photos. When I get better at taking food photos, I’ll retake some of the past dishes and update my previous posts.
I love popcorn and I never knew how to make them. A forum member from HH taught me how to make them. Now I can have popcorn whenever I want! Sometimes, I wonder if people will laugh when I feature easy recipes like this, but hey, I am a noob cook, and I am sure there must be other noobs like me too who have no inking of an idea how to make popcorn, no? ;p I was so noobish as to even ask ‘do I need to add water?‘ … see, the term Noob Cook is not false modesty at all, lol
And oh, this recipe is for basic butter popcorn. The only other variation I’ve tried is wasabi popcorn. If you know how to make other variations, do share with me =D
Freshly made Popcorn
Ingredients
50g butter
2 tbsp raw popcorn
salt
Directions
In a deep cooking pot, melt butter over low fire. After the butter has melted, stir in the popcorn quickly and make them evenly soaked in the melted butter (you have like 20 seconds to do that, you don’t want the corn to pop with the lid off). Cover the lid and increase fire slightly. Wait for the delightful popping sounds, off fire when the popping has stopped. Season with salt before serving.
Tip: Do not use too much raw popcorn because they really expand and fill up the entire pot =P
Variations
Wasabi Popcorn - Stir in 2 tbsp of wasabi powder to the melted butter, mix evenly, before adding the raw popcorn.
And oh, here’s NoobCook.com’s very first food review, featuring the charmingly chubby Neko Chan::
Note: When feeding hamsters’ popcorn, give the outer puff of popcorn and not the stiff, inner kernel part. Actually plain popcorn is the best for them =x
Share the good food
Tags: Hamsters, popcorn, raw popcorn
Posted in Fun, Hamsters, Recipes, Snacks
19 Responses to “Freshly made Popcorn”
For a second, I thought I was at the martha stewart website with such beautiful photography and layout.
By Joyce on Jan 24, 2008
Wow… love the new style of pics! I especially like the one with the popcorn overflowing. lol
I like to shop at ikea for my ‘props’. But I’ve been hestitating to buy some cos I reckon I won’t use them often. lol, talk abt being a miser.
Hey, Neko, you are so lucky to have nice fresh popcorns to sample. I’m sure your review is non-bias. Woo.. wasabi popcorns, that’s innovative.
By didally on Jan 24, 2008
thank you! you girls are too kind
didally - the word’s not miser, but thrifty, a virtue
I wanna be more thrifty too, keke.
By wiffy on Jan 25, 2008
Wow! Very nice photos! Love them all!
Neko really looks so bliss with that popcorn! Very cute!
By WokkingMum on Jan 26, 2008
Your photos are already so nice without the placemats additions. Now they look even more beautiful
I need to learn from you…but I’m getting lazy…..:O
By tigerfish on Jan 28, 2008
ty wm, ty tf - I’m the one who should learn from u, lol
By wiffy on Jan 29, 2008
That popcorn looks soo good!
Neko looks so nice in that picture!
By ilovetilt on Jan 31, 2008
hi ilovetilt, nice to see u
By wiffy on Feb 1, 2008
omg! i didn’t noe u can make popcorn wifout microwave! see, i m 100 times more hopeless at cooking den u lor.
nw, i MUZ try tis, the kiddos will luv it
By Livia on Mar 3, 2008
Aww Neko’s food review is so cute! Of course a hamster makes the best reviewer…especially for popcorn! He sure seems to be enjoying it.
By HoppingHammy on Apr 19, 2008
hey bud, thanks for your comment, sorry I didn’t see it. We should do a popcorn movie home party some time!
HoppingHammy: Hee Neko says thanks for thinking his food review is cute
By wiffy on Apr 19, 2008
Is there a recipe for caramel popcorn? I usually put sugar in the popcorn but sometimes they end up burn. Not sure if the steps in putting the ingredients are correct. Never tried making caramel popcorn though. Pls advise. Thanks.
By CF on Apr 23, 2008
Hello CF,
I’ve never made caramel popcorn before. But I surf around and it seems that the caramel is made separately and then poured over the popcorn, and not cooked together with the popcorn.
Here’s an easy recipe I found:
http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/caramel-popcorn-recipe.htm
Hope this helps
By wiffy on Apr 25, 2008
i just like the hamster
By me on Jun 25, 2008
there is nothing better than fresh homeade popcorn!
By leslie on Jul 18, 2008
Your hamster looks soooo cute! And I love idea of adding wasabi, I add it recently to everything… I have some left over after sushi I was making the other day…
Have a nice day Wiffy, Margot
By Coffee and Vanilla on Jul 18, 2008
It’s so easy to do, yeah? I do mine in the cast iron pan, using BACON grease instead of butter - you can’t go wrong with bacon!
Try sprinkling furikake on it - good stuff!
By Nate on Jul 19, 2008
Yum, I love popcorn!
By S for Kitchen Confit on Jul 20, 2008
I’m liking textiles more and more as background. Sometimes you don’t want so much glare.
Just happened back to your archives, Wiffy. The popcorn really pops! And Neko is priceless.
By Susan on Oct 1, 2008