Unfortunately for me, and anyone that enjoys my photo of the day, my computer appears to be on its last legs. I've been getting the dreaded blue screen for a while now, and tonight it won't even stay on for long before freezing or restarting itself. It appears to be a hardware issue, which I could probably attempt to troubleshoot, but the poor box is 4.5 years old. It may just be time to throw in the towel (and a chunk of our savings) and look for a new computer. In any case, I won't be able to edit pictures, let alone post them on a regular basis, so my 2014 photo of the day is on hiatus until further notice.
One of many awesome wedding gifts we received was a cookbook titled 101 Things to do with Popcorn. There are some interesting recipes inside and some really fun ones. I've made a couple and decided to try something new tonight. I didn't have the right ingredients for anything specific from the book, so I mixed and matched and came up with my own concoction. To start, you need some popped popcorn. We don't want the special butter or movie popcorn you can buy in the store because we're putting our own topping on it. So we want to start with about 1/3 cup of unpopped kernels and we're going to dump them in a regular old brown paper lunch bag. Fold up the top of the bag so the kernels don't come out as they pop. My microwave has a popcorn setting. If yours doesn't, just put it in for about 3 - 4 minutes and listen for the popping to slow. After the popcorn is popped comes my least favorite step. It's a little awkward, but necessary if...
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