Lots of folks in these parts know blue grass musician, violin teacher, sweetness and light Sarah Pirkle. I know her best from the long-ago Actors Co-op original theater piece Measured in Labor, which concerned the early 1900s mine disaster in Fratersville and was workshoped for a year before playing the Black Box theater and some regional mining towns. Sarah and her love match Jeff Barbra wrote an original soundtrack and played it live for all the shows. Spectacular, and moving, and I hope I can still find the two copies we've kept since, can it be?, summer 2005? My teen daughters would slouch around the house with the garbage cans, singing "Get on your feet, girl, Fetch a pail of water"
I was no more than a groupie/stage mom for the whole extravaganza, those creative young people... so it's hard to believe that the way I'm connecting to Sarah now, over Facebook, is 'cause she'll write about what she's fixing for dinner, venison in the crock pot, cornbread. This is even a little funny as she is a regular on the WDVX Blue Plate special. Anyhow, can't believe it's a month and many gigs later, but I finally followed back on her post of Sesame Seed popcorn. It is, yes, nice. Just nice. And I didn't even know sesame seeds HAD any calcium. They're so small. Here's what she says 'bout this dish:
Sarah Pirkle Sesame Popcorn
Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 10:06pm
1/3 c popcorn (the kind you buy in a bag unpopped, not microwave popcorn)
1 tbsp of sesame seeds
canola oil or olive oil
salt, fresh ground pepper
optional: garlic or onion powder, cayenne pepper
Toast sesame seeds in a dry skillet until just brown. Put them in a mortar and pestle and grind them up with some salt. If you don't have a mortar & pestle, use a coffee cup and a wooden spoon, you know, improvise. Don't use your food processor or your coffee bean grinder, you have to mash on the seeds to get the flavor out. This is the most important part of the recipe
Put a couple tbsp of oil in a 3 quart saucepot, add popcorn and turn the heat on high, put a lid on it.
When corn slows down to one pop every second, take it off heat and dump it in your serving bowl.
Toss with sesame seeds, salt, pepper, etc to taste.
Enjoy a salty crunchy treat without the saturated fat and with added calcium from the sesame!
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