WEEK 5 - Bacon Bourbon Caramel Popcorn

Got this recipe from Villains Tavern via Daily Candy. Hope it's tasty!

Villains Tavern’s Bacon Bourbon Caramel Popcorn
Serves up to twenty

Ingredients
25 strips of bacon
9 bags of unpopped kernel corn
4½ c. butter
9 c. packed brown sugar
2¼ c. maple syrup
1 c. bourbon or rum
3 tbsp. vanilla extract
2¼ tsp. salt
2¼ tsp. baking soda
6 tbsp. vegetable oil

1. Fry bacon and set aside.

2. Put 3 tbsp. oil and 4½ bags unpopped kernel corn in a large, deep pot, then place over high heat.

3. Cover and shake pot occasionally, so popcorn doesn’t burn.

4. Remove pot from heat once popping has slowed.

5. Repeat for remaining 4½ bags.

6. Heat oven to 250°.

7. Crumble bacon and spread over finished popcorn.

8. In a large pot, bring butter, brown sugar, and maple syrup to a boil, stirring constantly.

9. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes, then remove from heat.

10. Stir in bourbon or rum, vanilla extract, salt, and baking soda, and mix.

11. Pour caramel mixture over popcorn and bacon.

12. Spread coated popcorn on large baking trays to dry.

13. Bake for 1 hour, stirring the mixture every 15 minutes.

14. Remove from oven. Cool for 1 hour.

Villains Tavern, 1356 Palmetto Street, at South Santa Fe Avenue, Downtown (213-613-0766 or villainstavern.com).

REVIEW on WEEK 4

Monday
- Focus on Friendship
- Wrote my play for the reading on Sunday - "Failure to the Family"

Tuesday
- Lunch with Michael at Tatsuki
- Apt. Hunting

Wednesday
- Girls' Night - cooking, Animal Totem Cards, Vision Boards



REVIEW on WEEK 3 MEAL - Spinach Soup - A yummy group effort with accompaniment from my Magic Bullet.

Thursday
- Writer's Co-op

Friday
- Massage

- Wine 55 with Amy, Carolyn, and Jackie

Saturday
- Rehearsal - first time I directed one of my plays
- Apt. hunting
- Church
- Mom's house

Sunday
- Application for apt.
- Play Reading
- Dinner at Jerry's Deli and Bowling at Pinz

REVIEW on WEEK 3

Monday
- Dentist

- Mo-Chica

Tuesday
- Resumes and Events
- Bjam's Softball Game (last of the season)

Wednesday
- lunch with Carolyn
- Writing

- dinner with Nika - Moksha Indian-Chinese food

Thursday
- lunch with Mr. Ex
- "Letters From My Mother" reading and CAST awareness

Friday
- Yoga Rocks
- cryfest

Saturday
- Apt. Hunting
- Gabe's Bday Party

Sunday
- Disneyland/DCA

REVIEW on WEEK 2

Monday
- ALAP Meeting

Tuesday
- TKD Tour
- Fix Jewelry

Wednesday
- Lunch with Dan at Little Island Sushi
- Reading Frenzy



- Vino Tapas bar

Thursday




- Lunch with Meredith at Reds Tapas
- Writer's Co-op Meeting

Friday
- Apple Store and Max's of Manila

Saturday
- Massage
- Mom's house
- Rehearsal
- Karen's Comedy Club
- Chi Dynasty

Sunday
- Rehearsal
- Reading
- Scoops
- Church
- Damon's

WEEK 2 - Lemons

My aunt just gave me 10 lbs of lemons from her tree!!!! So I'm bringing some in to work and sharing them with co-workers, but I also want to make something with them. Here's what I found for a three-course meal.

IRON CHEF - Special Ingredient: LEMON

1. Lemon Soup
2. Lemon Chicken
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Marinated-Rosemary-Lemon-Chicken/Detail.aspx
3. Lemon Bars
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Easy-Lemon-Bars/Detail.aspx

REVIEW on WEEK 1

Monday
- Toluca Lake Health Center - giving blood is not that fun anymore... :(

- Dinner - Turkey Stroganoff

Tuesday
- Work and playwriting

Wednesday
- Lunch with Nika
- Tangled with work gals

Thursday
- Best Buy - bought "X-Men" Animated series
- Dinner with Father Paul at Cafe Beaujolais

Friday
- lunch with Will
- Animation Guild Party

Saturday
- Write Act Meeting - discussed my upcoming reading


- Butter Chicken and Country Apple Dumplings

Sunday

- Apartment Hunting - Robeks, Papoo's Hot Dogs - Peer Leaders Meeting

WEEK 1: Butter Chicken and Country Apple Dumplings

Looks like something good to start the new year! I was more of an Epicurious fan last year. This year I'm starting off with more Allrecipes. They have thousands of more reviews, and I choose only recipes that are at least 4/5 stars. That way I know it'll be good.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Famous-Butter-Chicken/Detail.aspx

And of course we'll need to have some dessert. An easy one.


http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Country-Apple-Dumplings/Detail.aspx

Happy New Year!

Happy 2011, everyone! My new year's resolutions this year - Prayer and Posture!

I will keep trying to do my weekly suppers or weekly events. I feel like it would be good to do one or the other, especially until I find my own place.

Besides the two Ps, here are the other resolutions:
1. Sign up for Netflix
2. Beat FF13
3. Make and sell more jewelry
4. Find an apartment in or near North Hollywood
5. Put up my Rochelle Perry Play Showcase
6. Sign up for a marathon - http://espnwwos.disney.go.com/events/rundisney/disneyland-half-marathon/
7. Make tamales - http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Real-Homemade-Tamales/Detail.aspx

I think these are all attainable goals. :)

REVIEW on WEEK 52

Monday
- Final Fantasy 13 on PS3
- Oyster Bar at Delphine (W Hotel)

Tuesday
- Watched "Kick Ass"
- Made custom jewelery

Wednesday
- Pazzo Gelato

Thursday

- Bjam cooked chili for me - yum!
- Final Fantasy XIII on PS3

Friday
- New Year's Eve Parties - Jake's for home-made tamales, and Tony's for Scene it! and ball dropping for a Happy New Year toast

Saturday


- Urban Hike and Travel Town Museum
- Watched "Chaplin"

Sunday

- New Year's Party at Aunt Linda's