For weeks now I have been struggling with an addiction to kettle corn. I love the light sweet salty crunch – oh so yummy. It started out at a Farmer’s Market months ago with a few samples, then the small bag and then the medium sized bag. I then decided it wasn’t such a good thing to be scarfing with the oil and the sugar and the salt…so I stopped. Just like that…cold turkey. It had been weeks since I munched on those delicious crunchy bites of yummy goodness. Just as my craving was ebbing, the SF Chronicle decided to rate the microwave popcorn versions of Kettle Corn. Safeway brand won out so in a moment of weakness I hopped over to the neighborhood Safeway to buy a box. Straight over to the microwave I went as soon as I got home. I waited in anticipation as the last corn popped. What a disappointment it was to eat…good, I thought, this will cure me at last!
Then one fateful night I was channel surfing and flashed pass the Food Network. Oh, back to the Food Network – was that a big kettle I saw. Oh, yes an instructional segment on how kettle corn is made. I fell to sleep dreaming with those little white fluffy orbs popping in my dreams. In the morning I jumped on the web and did a search on Kettle Corn – woo hoo! I can make this stuff at home in a pot on my stove. Off I ran to the neighborhood grocer for my bag of popping corn.
Moments later I was sitting on the couch with a big bowl of kettle corn on my lap. Hey, I figure this can replace my addiction to potato chips, yea that’s it.
