Cooking - Simple Stuff

So since I'm home all the time now, I do all of the cooking.  But of course I'm constantly looking for new things to cook as a way of keeping myself entertained, but I'm also finding that simple stuff can be just as interesting.

For example, I had my first pomegranate yesterday.  Well, not my first, but it was the first time I did everything myself.  That's really a lot of work.  No wonder POM charges so much for juice.  And there were a few red marks on my sweatshirt afterward, but it was pretty good.  I guess they're in season right now (only $2.50 at Cub).  Maybe I should cook with one next, but I'm not really wowed by any of the pomegranate recipes on Allrecipes; most of the recipes are for drinks and not for food.

Another simple food: popcorn.  We were watching a Good Eats episode about corn and we learned that you can just put popcorn in a paper bag and put that in the microwave.  It's very easy and, of course, very cheap.  It was about $5 for a bag of popcorn, some paper bags, and a little thing of popcorn salt.  I would recommend the larger paper bags, not the really small ones.  With some of the salt, it turns out pretty good, but it's not a bag of buttery goodness.  I've read that movie theater butter really isn't pure butter so I'll have to find a way to replicate that, though it's probably not all that healthy.  I did find a recipe for microwave caramel popcorn which I think would be really good. 

Lately, I've been making breakfast sandwiches.  In the past, I've always had cereal in the morning before work.  But then I feel like I have time for whatever now.  But I learned it's really easy and fast to make a scrambled egg in the microwave and our small pyrex bowls make an egg that's a very close match to the size of an english muffin.

So I guess if there's any silver lining to my situation, I'm at least changing my eating habits a little.