Roasted Nuts with Oil or Butter

I used this recipe to bake pumpkin seeds this past Halloween and they turned out great. I tried three of the variations that are kind-of suggested here:

• Olive oil with salt and pepper (really good)
  
• Olive oil with a jamacian jerk seasoning mix (good)
  
• Butter with brown sugar and cinnamon (great)
  

They were all delicious, but I loved the sweet nuts better than the other variations.

I did not toss the nuts in a bowl, but instead just poured the toppings into one of the aluminum foil wells that I made on my cookie sheet.

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Real Popcorn

I love, love, love this recipe. First of all it is a lot cheaper to pop your own popcorn then to buy pre-packaged microwave kind, and since there is a lot less packaging it is better for the environment too. Also, as Michael Pollan would point out, you'll eat less "junk" food when you have to go through the trouble of making it yourself (although, really this recipe is not much trouble)!

I had been popping popcorn and using the butter-flavored oil, but using this classic recipe has been so much better! I use vegetable oil to pop the corn but then I do use the melted butter to toss the popped corn. Warning for making this in the winter though: whatever bowl you will be tossing your popcorn in, you might want to pre-heat it as we had some butter re-solidify at the bottom of the bowl.

I have tired popping in olive oil, but I didn't find that it added any olive oil flavor, so I wanted to save my EVOO for other uses.

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