Breakfast...and kettle corn

Saturday morning I made a real breakfast: scrabbled eggs with some leftover avocado and heirloom tomato, toast (made in my oven's broiler--I really need to get a toaster oven), and a perfectly ripe nectarine. yum! I love summer.

I was still hungry after dinner tonight, so I tried making kettle corn from scratch. It took three tries, but eventually I succeeded...and ate it all without taking a picture. I feel slightly ill now. I got the recipe from Allrecipes.com but used less oil and sugar and followed the details in the reviews. It wouldn't have taken 3 tries if I would have stopped peeking inside the pot. Here's the whole recipe:

Kettle Corn

Recipe By     :Sue
Serving Size  : 4

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
     1/2           cup  popcorn
     1/4           cup  sugar -- I used less than that--only 2 or 3 tbsp
  2        tablespoons  canola oil

Preheat your pan on medium heat, add all of the oil along with 3 kernels of popcorn.
When the 3 kernels pop, the oil is ready. Once the oil is ready, add the rest of the 
popcorn and quickly sprinkle the sugar on top. Place a lid on the pan. Alternate, in 
three second intervals, between leaving the pan on the stove top and lifting and 
shaking the pot. Once the popping has slowed, remove from the stove top and 
immediately sprinkle with salt. Let it cool a little.

Source:
  "allrecipes.com"

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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 115 Calories; 7g Fat (54.7% calories from 
fat); trace Protein; 13g Carbohydrate; trace Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol; 12mg 
Sodium.  Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 1 1/2 Fat; 1 Other Carbohydrates.

NOTES : Using less sugar was fine.  Follow the instructions closely--notably, don't 
open the saucepan!

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Kettle-Corn/Detail.aspx

Doh...

I eat too many cheerios at work....but that's better than eating too many potato chips.

Gianduia...addictive goodness

Someone brought back chocolates from Switzerland, and one kind is gianduia (or gianduja), hazelnut and chocolate...basically nutella in solid form. yum.

Chicken with parsley and garlic and broiled zucchini with herbs

Last night I tried out two new recipes: Chicken with parlsey and garlic from Jacques Pepin's Fast Food My Way and Broiled Zucchini with Herbs from Moosewood Low-Fat Favorites. I want to make a least a couple recipes from all my cookbooks, and I think I've only used Pepin's book once before. It was all very tasty and fairly easy to make, though just a little rich. Broiling the zuchhini worked well with the chicken since it could cook while I making the chicken. The orange thing in the picture is an orange heirloom tomato. It took about 45 minutes total to make both. (not including clean up time at the end).