Popping my own Popcorn!
12-19-2011
Yesterday, Josh and I made our own popcorn. It’s actually not that hard but it was something that I had never done before. With the convenience of today’s society, so many things that are just as easy to do without technology or fancy packaging go undone.
We currently don’t have a microwave. We haven’t needed one and we actually don’t want one. It works just as well to cook things on a stove and in our opinion the food tastes better. Plus, just about anything you can cook in a microwave, you can cook on a stove or in the oven – popcorn included.
We just threw in a bit of oil (way healthier than popping it with butter) and in went the kernels. It’s actually a lot more fun this way and takes the same amount of time.
Shake, shake, shake!
Pop! Pop! Pop!
We even seasoned our popcorn with some cajun seasoning that we had lying around and it was some of the lightest, yummiest popcorn that I ever had! (And no doubt that healthiest!)
Have you ever popped your own popcorn?
You should! What would you flavor your popcorn with? I want to try your ideas!
Kereru Gallery
12-11-2011
Down the road from us, a new gallery just opened. Josh and I have watched this family clean out and fix up this place for the past couple months and so we finally went to check it out now that they have opened everything up and are ready and raring to go.
This building used to be an old apple packhouse and I love it so much. It is such a beautiful building. Josh reckons it’s almost 100 years old but who knows, really. I wish I had a picture at a different time of day because when the tide comes up the seawater comes up right to the house which is why it’s up on stilts like that. I love living by the estuary.
We were even greeted by Stella but that’s okay because we love Stella. We know her because we’ve watched her when she came with her owners to the orchard toilets which are right behind our house while they were fixing up their gallery.
They did such a nice job with the place. They have so many amazing pieces on display and for sale.
Unfortunately we can’t afford any of them at the moment but Josh and I would love to have something like these in our home one day.
This one was my favourite.
I also like this one a lot.
This was Josh’s favourite.
They also had this really neat wicker basket chair. I want to have something like that one day too. I used to want a hammock but I think I like this better now. How cool would it be to have something like that on a porch to curl up with a good book?
What kinds of things would you like to have in your home someday?
Or what kinds of things do you have in your home that you love?
