If you wanted to make shelf stable snacks that didn’t cost a lot but delivered on umami what would you make?
My first thought was corn nuts or baked chickpeas. A low cost main ingredient and a minimal amount of home grown herbs and MSG as a seasoning would do the job.
What else can you come up with other than beef jerky?
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When my wife moved in she made me watch every episode of Little House on the prairie. On DVD. During that, we started making a lot of popcorn. Because if you’re not eating popcorn while watching Little House on the prairie, you’re probably doing something wrong. It’s been 15 years and we still stock popcorn in the house.
We don’t keep nutritional yeast in the house.
Ducks need extra niacin when you’re raising them. Failure to do that will result in angel wing. Which is not a good thing. A lot of people will supplement their food with nutritional yeast. We don’t do that. We give them frozen peas instead.
Now I’m wondering what it would be like to add some frozen peas to the popcorn pot.
The only Sriracha in the house is homemade so I don’t have any powder. And my 10 tray dehydrator busted itself a year and a half ago. I don’t have the $100 to buy a new one. But if I did, I could totally dehydrate some Sriracha and then run it through a grinder to powder it. So you have some good ideas here.
Ah yeah no I wasn’t thinking of having you reduce your sriracha sauce - that’s a heavy lift just for popcorn that tastes like Takis. In Asian grocers in the UK (meaning India-centric), in the spice aisle they sell a ready made powder that mimics the sauce pretty well, and it sticks to hot popcorn. I had to look up the brand, I think it’s Greenfields.
I don’t think a dried pea would pop like corn does, but it would be tasty if it did.