Hi Bev!
I'm glad you are okay! OMG, i SOOO know what you mean about trying to find a "popcorn replacement" for movie night!The food and the movie go hand in hand. It doesn't really impact the enjoyment of the movie itself, but it adds to the experience. Not eating 'corn during a movie is like not eating turkey at Thanksgiving.
Popcorn and a movie was always such a happy
tradition in our family! It started for me after my parents got divorced (I was about 16) and when I would go over to spend time with my dad, for lack of real things to talk about (he was a great dad, but rather emotionally unavailable) we'd say, "Hey! Wanna' watch a movie and have 'corn n Peps?!" (short for Diet Pepsi). "YES!" And so, he'd pop up a giant salad bowl for each of us of 'corn and pour tall cups of Diet Peps' and we'd "bond" as well as you possibly can with someone while watching a film and not talking. But, there was something about being together, just us, sharing an experience, enjoying the same thing at the same time. I loved it. It was and is a great memory I have of my father.
After I got married, I wanted to carry on the tradition of Movie Night. SO, for years, we would do just that. Pop up brimming over-sized bowls of the white stuff (of course, organic and cooked with olive oil so it was very "healthy!"
), and pour on the melted butter and salt (or, for me, salt and vinegar sprinkles from Kernels in Canada), and drink soda and ENJOY! Munching throughout the whole movie.
Since starting HFLC, We have NOT had popcorn and a movie, and it really does feel like something's missing. (I know, I know, we shouldn't "need" something to eat while watching a flick, but I WANT something! The tradition and memory and
the ritual of it is one I do not want to give up.)
Actually two nights ago, I decided to try to make some Rev Rolls from A'72, and they turned out okay, but, the interesting thing was (the recipe calls for cottage cheese) the cottage cheese that had "sunk" to the bottom of the egg white mixture and touched the butter-greased pan while baking ended up with a very nice CRUNCHY texture! So, more interested in pursuing the CRUNCH, I put the Rev Rolls aside, and I immediately grabbed another baking sheet, oiled it up with butter and spread some dry curd cottage cheese on the tray. I baked it for, I don't know how long, until they turned golden brown. They were SUPER CRUNCHY!
It worked! The only problem is you don't get very many in a batch, and it takes a fairly long time to bake them (not like popcorn)... BUT, I think I MAY have discovered a viable replacement! Movie Night LIVES!!!
Roasted Dry Curd Cottage Cheese is the new
No Carb 'Corn for Movie Night
'cause the show must go on!
Jam