Adventist Popcorn

I don't know that I've ever written a post while I was actually eating the thing I was writing about. Today I am!

I grew up in the Seventh Day Adventist Church and was in the Adventist school system up through college. During this time I ate a variety of both delicious (haystacks, yum!) and disgusting (Fri-Chick, yuk!) "Adventist" foods. My all time favorite though has to be Adventist Popcorn.

So what makes popcorn "Adventist" you ask? Its the Brewer's yeast.

After some research (I googled it...) I discovered that the product that we always called Brewer's yeast was in fact Nutritional yeast. This stuff is awesome. It has a cheesy/nutty sort of flavor, very unique tasting, and is loaded with B vitamins. Sprinkled on popcorn, its AMAZING.

You COULD just sprinkle some on whatever microwave popcorn you have on hand and you would have a tasty snack. I prefer this method:

1. Place about 1/2 cup of popcorn kernels in a large paper lunch sack. Fold over the top once and then again and then tape it shut with some painters tape. Lay it down in the microwave and hit the popcorn button (or however long it takes to make popcorn...I don't remember). Tada! You have popcorn. Put it in your popcorn bowl (come on, you know you have one. The one we had when I was a kid doubled as the barf bowl...gross.)

2. Melt a few tablespoons of coconut oil in a bowl in the microwave. You could use butter or any other type of oil but I like the flavor of coconut oil, has a more movie theater-ish taste.

3. Drizzle the melted oil over the popcorn and toss with salt.

4. Finally, sprinkle your desired amount of nutritional yeast over your popcorn and enjoy!

I'm pretty sure it's a rule that you have to eat this with apple slices.