Today is National Popcorn Day…who knew, right?

When I first started blogging, I had what I thought was a brilliant idea. I’d do my blog posts each time it is a National Food day. Oblivious as I was to the fact that every single day is a “national food day” of some sort. Of course, as an over zealous new blogger, I’m sure I figured blogging every single day about whatever star food of the day was would be a cinch. Riiiiigggghhhhttt…. You all know my lack of consistency with posting well enough to guess the outcome.

My dreams of being the “National Food Day” blogger extraordinaire never happened and instead I just hop on the National Food Day bandwagon whenever it is convenient for me, which happened to be today with National Popcorn Day. My kids love popcorn and we make variations of stove top popcorn all the time. That’s what I like about popcorn… you can just pile on whatever you like most (for me, that always includes at least butter) and have a new type of treat each day. Like most of the popcorn we make around here, this isn’t really a recipe. It is just one of the variations of sweet and salty we love.

I hope you had a very happy National Popcorn Day. Let’s celebrate again in a couple days, shall we? I hear it’s national cheese day! Enjoy!

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Recipe: Buttery Brown Sugar Popcorn

A buttery brown sugar popcorn perfect for snacking!

Course Dessert

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes minutes

Total Time 15 minutes minutes

Author Dine & Dish

Ingredients

• 1 cup unpopped popcorn
• 1/4 cup butter melted
• 1 Tablespoon Kosher salt
• 1/4 cup brown sugar

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 250°
• Pop un-popped popcorn using this method
• Pour popped popcorn onto a parchment lined baking sheet.
• In the meantime, melt the butter in the skillet. Pour melted butter onto the baking sheet over the popped popcorn. Stir until evenly distributed.
• Sprinkle salt and brown sugar over the popcorn. Bake for 10 minutes. (Baking isn't totally necessary, but it helps the brown sugar, butter mixture adhere to the popcorn better). Pour into a big bowl and enjoy!

If you are on the lookout for another popcorn recipe, check these ones out from around the web:

• Perfect Stovetop Popcorn from Simply Recipes
• Homemade Kettle Corn from Tastes Lovely
• Chocolate Popcorn with Sea Salt from Celebrating Sweets

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We have salad almost every night with our dinner. Nothing fancy… I typically just put out the tub of organic mixed greens from Sam’s Club and the family dishes from that. My kids love salad, so if all else fails and they don’t want to eat whatever it is we are having for dinner, I feel good knowing that they at least got some greens in them.

The other night my son was the first one to get his salad, and as I looked over at him I noticed he had my favorite salad dressing and had taken the very last drop of it. I was so bummed and ended up eating a dry, tasteless salad that night. I don’t know why it never crosses my mind to make homemade salad dressing for just our weeknight dinners. I typically reserve that for a dolled up, fancy salad… not family mealtime. Realizing that was about as silly of a notion as one could get, I decided I would return to making our salad dressings from scratch, even if it is just for our nightly dinners.

First up, this delicious Poppy Seed Salad Dressing. It is very similar to the salad dressing featured in my absolute favorite Special Spinach Salad recipe I posted back in March, but just slightly different. With the perfect blend of sweet and tangy, this lovely Poppy Seed Salad Dressing will have you wondering why you weren’t making salad dressing your way a long time ago!

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Poppy Seed Salad Dressing)

Poppy Seed Salad Dressing (adapted from All Recipes.com)

Author Dine & Dish

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup cider vinegar
• 4 1/2 teaspoons finely chopped onion
• 3 teaspoons ground mustard which I forgot to put in, but I bet it is a great addition
• 1 teaspoon poppy seeds
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup canola oil

Instructions

• In a small bowl, combine the first six ingredients.
• Slowly add oil, while whisking briskly. Cover and refrigerate until serving.

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