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On the corn chips, the touch of lime is the fruit. A current fade is corn chips with lime juice flavoring. They're ok on occasion, but I generally prefer my corn chips plain. We often do corn chips and homemade salsa and/or guacamole. STeve makes a kick-ass salsa and my guacamole gets rav reviews. We also keep popcorn around for spur of the moment snacks. I try to keep things like fruit and veggies around as well. Green grapes are great frozen. We also like to buy cans of fruit when they are on sale and pop them in the freezer until they are just barely frozen. As good or better than ice cream.
Re #25: in this case, it really is the fruit lime, but the expression is "hint of lime". See http://www.neckofwoods.com/wp/archives/date/2004/01/
How much vitamin C comes from the 'lime'? Can you taste lime fruit?
I can. I love those chips. And I don't eat them for servings of Vitamin C.
My favorite snack is gardettos. It's a mix of pretzels and rye chips and french bread sticks. It's been a favorite of mine for years and i don't think i'll ever loose interest in it.
I'm also big on shrimp cocktail, especially if one knows how to make really good cocktail sauce.
> make really good cocktail sauce. I do... 1. Take Heinz cocktail sauce bottle. 2. Tip upside down.
My choice of snacks varies with what's at home - from cake rusks to "mathries" (i'm not even sure how to describe tehm - deep fried something made with wheat flour is closest I can come to)
Isnt cocktail sauce just ketchup and horse radish?
re 31: I have a great recipie (not sure if I posted in kitchen or not, I think I did in an appetizer item) for a fiesta shrimp coctail which is my favorite way to do it now. It's not the cocktail sauce, that's the same, but you marinate the shrimp in stuff.
Jeanne, I bet it is fabulous!
For a sweet and salty snack: melt a bag of chocolate chips in the microwave and then stir in a bag of small pretzels. Stir til pretzels are coated. Spread them on a wax-papered cookie sheet and place in freezer for about a half an hour to harden the chocolate. Break into pieces as some of the pretzels will be 'stuck' together, place in a ziplock bag for easy storage.
resp:37 that sounds yummy!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N2mlViucKY
[re38, it was one of those things I made up on the spur of the moment when I wanted to find a way to use up some leftover white choc. chips-and had almost a full bag of pretzels.]
(Probably cheaper than a package of chocolate-covered pretzels. :)
While doing my grocery shopping yesterday [had to go before the snowstorm!], I was able to get a 'name-brand' bag of pretzels on sale instead of having to resort to the store brand. It doesn't take much to thrill me these days. Ok, I'm rambling; I'll shut up for now.
Pecans in the shell, $1/bag from Kroger.
Lately, I really like the jumbo crazy sized braeburn apples from WinCo foods.
1. Popcorn. I have so much PopSecret in my cupboard it isnt even funny. 2. Potato Chips. I've become a potato chip snob, and I usually seek out different brands, although potato chips are basically the same. I love Better Made for some odd reason. 3. Wise Cheez Waffies and Jay's Cheese Wheels. These are little cheese sandwiches that are totally salty, but very addictive. I found the cheese waffies at Barry Bagels here in Toledo, and the Cheese Wheels can be found at the Alexis Rd Meijer gas station 4.Watermelon. Meijer has these little bowls for 1.75 and it's a pretty decent pick-me-up. 5. Salsa and chips. See #1. I have a TON of salsa. There is a brand of chips from Mansfield, named Jones who has an odd guarantee. If for some reason you dont like them, they will come to your house and pick them up of course in the Mansfield area only, but I think it's pretty cool to have a guarantee like that. 6. Pretzel Balls, and chocolate pretzel balls. Meijer in Bowling Green got rid of thier stock of chocolate pretzel balls for .50 cents a bag, and true to form, I bought 6 bags of them. They are damn good. I also on occaision eat pretzels.
re45: there's one of the Orville Redenbacher kinds of popcorn that I really like [microwave form]. But nothing beats Orville using an old-fashioned popcorn popper with a bit of salt and butter. Too bad I no longer have a popper [er, maybe that's a good thing.]. I like the Tostido's [sp?] brand of chips to use with salsa, though my salsa needs to be mild. There was a kind of salsa that I brought awhile back that I really really liked; I wish I remember what the brand was. It was like home-made.
We gleaned Orville Redenbacher corn in N. Indiana one year.
Healthy Choice Butter Flavor Popcorn - 6 cups (37g) - 120 calories, 3g fat, 25 carbs, 5g fiber, 4g protein OR Hot Air popped with some non-stick spray butter flavor and a dash of salt
I love air popped popcorn. I dont like putting butter on it because it makes it too greasy. But I dont have an airpopper anymore. OH well. Luckily there are microwave popcorn brands that arent too greasy.
I had an air popper for awhile; I didn't like the popcorn plain at all. So I used that 'I can't believe its not butter' spray--and sprayed the popcorn as it came out. :-)
Though I don't use regular corn as a snack item, corn is probably my favorite cooked vegetable [I know its a bit higher in carbs but it does still provide some fiber.]
Why do you need a branded popcorn to microwave it?
Because some brands taste better than others. Fot microwavable popcorn, it's partly the corn kernels and partly the 'stuff' in the bag that it's popped in. Popcorn brands can make a difference in a regular oil-based popper, too.
I dont need a branded popcorn for microwaving but it is easier than finding space in my kitchen for a bowl suitabe for microwaving popcorn
Maybe I'm just a popcorn snob. :-)
How do you microwave popcorn in a bowl?
I have a microwaveable popcorn bowl, actually,not sure what's different about it, but I've had it for about 20 years.
re #57 I found a couple good directions: one uses a bowl with a paper plate on top and the other uses a brown lunch sack stapled shut The brown lunch sack recipe had feedback and one person claimed theirs burned up so they tossed it on the porch. Here's the end result http://www.flickr.com/photos/ross-hershberger/349792527/
resp:56 - you put the popcorn into the bowl and put the special lid with vents on top of it. Then you press the buttons with the numbers on the microwave and when it dings, you take the popcorn out.
Re 58> Doesn't the paper plate fly off during the popping?
I usually take my popcorn to the gas station/milk depot. They don't mind. Sterling has some of the best milk around because it's usually still good 3 days past the expiration date. Try THAT with Kroger milk.
re #60 Dunno..haven't tried yet. I suspect I'll try the brown bag method first since the bowl method sounds like it requires 5 minutes longer
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