Best Crunchy Chocolate Popcorn

This is a memory of my childhood, I guess it was the third thing I learned to make in the kitchen (after  Brigadeiro and 123 Cookies).

Ingredients:

3 cups of freshly made popcorn (microwave is fine)
3 tablespoons water
3 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons Nesquick chocolate powder

Preparation:

In a large deep saucepan, mix sugar and water. Cook in medium-high heat. When the mixture comes to a boil, place the Nesquick and mix quickly, turning the heat to medium.

Immediately add the popcorn, stirring all the time. When the popcorn is all covered with the chocolate sauce, continue mixing for 1 more minute and turn off the heat.Continue mixing until the chocolate popcorn is dry and crispy.

Notes:

It looks easy, but:
From the moment you place the popcorn in the pan with the chocolate-sugar syrup, you should stir all the time, and the process is very fast. If it takes too long, the popcorn gets burned.
If the popcorn gets "soaked" it is because the mixture of water, sugar and chocolate was not correct. There was probably more water than it should. In this case, the popcorn shrinks and does not dry (thus, it does not get crunchy).
You will get the hang of it after making the popcorn a few times.

Bananas with Melting Cheese and Chocolate or Cinnamon

This is a very simple dish that we make in the Northeast of Brazil. We call it "Cartola", whose ipsis litteris translation would be  "Top Hat". We usually eat it for dinner, together with some other things (bread, milk, coffee), or as a snack. 
The traditional version has cinnamon, but I am not very fond of cinnamon, so I use chocolate powder instead (this is chocolate in my photos). The amount of cinnamon to be used should be just a little sprinkle.

Ingredients:

2 bananas
1 tablespoon butter, or less in a non-stick pan
cheese slices: cheddar, mozzarella or another that will melt easily (shredded cheese is fine)
chocolate powder (Nesquick) or cinnamon
sugar to taste

Preparation:

Cut bananas in half lengthwise. Melt butter in skillet. Place half bananas side by side, let them fry until golden in lower side.

Flip carefully, they will be so soft they may break apart.

 

Place the cheese on top of bananas so it covers all of them. Fry a little bit more. If the cheese slices are too thick, cover the pan, turn off the heat and wait for the cheese to melt.

Transfer to a plate, sprinkle with chocolate powder or cinnamon, and sugar.

Here I used a Mexican blend of shredded cheeses (cheddar, Monterrey jack and colby), the taste was great.