Ooey Gooey Caramel Corn

A couple days ago I had a craving for something sweet. So I went to Pinterest and found this:

Marshmallow Caramel Popcorn

 

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup butter

9-10 Marshmallows

12 cups popcorn

 

1. Microwave brown sugar and butter for 2 minutes.

2.Add marshmallows and microwave until melted.

3. Pour over popcorn.

 

I did this with about 6 cups of popcorn. There wasn't enough syrup to cover all of the popcorn. so I decided to change it up a bit. Here is my recipe:

 

1/4 cup unpopped popcorn kernals

3/4 cup butter

3/4 cup brown sugar

15 marshmellows

 

 

The first thing I did was pop the popcorn using an airpopper.

 



 

 

Then in a 1 1/2 qt  saucepan I melted the butter.

 



 

 

Then I added the brown sugar and mixed it in until it was a nice caramel color.

 

 

 

 

Next came the marshmallows!!!!!

 

 

 

 

This part took some arm muscles! I had to continually stir to melt the marshmallows.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I poured it over the popcorn.

 

 

 

 

Then came more stirring.

 

 

 

 

After it was all coated I spread it out on a waxed paper lined cookie sheet. This was sticky and I had to use my hands. (I had to fight the temptation to stick my fingers in my mouth to get the hot sticky caramel off. )

 

 

 

 

This was very yummy!







 







 



Bug Spray! Who Knew? - How to clean nail polish out of your carpet.

I was repainting my nails before heading out for a birthday lunch with the girls when somehow I managed to knock over my dark blue nail polish. I must have hit it just right to make it flip up through the air and fling polish everywhere. I immediately busted out the 100% acetone polish remover. This is what it looked like after a few minutes of scrubbing:

The next thing that I used was Windex and water. I had a friend that spilled red polish on her carpet and was able to get it off with this combo. However, I was not so lucky.

Next came 409. Still no luck.

Then I used carpet cleaner. NOPE!

Needless to say I was getting desperate at this point. Then I remembered that on my recent trip to Haiti our bug spray would take our polish off (we had to spray ourselves a couple times a day). So I went to Wal-Mart and bought the cheapest high level of deet bug spray. And I had success!

 

 

There is still a little bit of a bluish tint to the carpet but overall it looks pretty good!