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Other than Brewing => All Things Food => Topic started by: tubercle on June 11, 2011, 06:14:06 PM
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Picked up a 10lb bag of green peanuts.
Boiling as we speak.
Going to eat some hot tonight while watching a movie and can the rest tomorrow.
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Picked up a 10lb bag of green peanuts.
Boiling as we speak.
Going to eat some hot tonight while watching a movie and can the rest tomorrow.
There is a man in Hawaii who is green with envy!
Early in the season for green peanuts... I want some!
In my house they never last long enough to see the inside of a can. :D
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Picked up a 10lb bag of green peanuts.
Boiling as we speak.
Going to eat some hot tonight while watching a movie and can the rest tomorrow.
There is a man in Hawaii who is green with envy!
Early in the season for green peanuts... I want some!
In my house they never last long enough to see the inside of a can. :D
That's why I got 10 lbs. I figured I couldn't eat them all in one sitting :D
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What kinda spices 'you put in that boil?
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I just used plain pickling salt @ 1 cup/gallon water because my grandkids are coming over and I didn't want to make it too spicy for them. They like to sit on the back porch and spit out the hulls. It keeps them occupied a while (and quite ;)).
Crab boil with a couple of ounces of chili powder thrown in is a pretty good spice mix. Goes good with a couple of cold ones.
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Picked up a 10lb bag of green peanuts.
Boiling as we speak.
Going to eat some hot tonight while watching a movie and can the rest tomorrow.
There is a man in Hawaii who is green with envy!
Early in the season for green peanuts... I want some!
In my house they never last long enough to see the inside of a can. :D
That's why I got 10 lbs. I figured I couldn't eat them all in one sitting :D
Lightweight! ;D
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OH, to have some fresh peanuts!
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I got a can of cajun-style boiled peanuts in the cupboard. Must. Open. Them.
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oh man, bulled peenuts, them's good eatin'. Where I'm from we say bulled, anyway. Maybe I should try growing some peanuts next year...
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Boiled peanuts? Say what? I thought all peanuts looked like this:
(http://junkfood.yowazzup.com/images/planters-dry-roasted-peanuts.jpg)
;D
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(http://www.tastyislandhawaii.com/images/pats_peanuts_spicygarlic.jpg)
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i love boiled peanuts. about the only thing good about mississippi is, lots of people sell them roadside and in seafood places and whatnot.
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Boiled peanuts and beer! 8)
It's what's good fuyya. ;D
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Boiled peanuts and beer! 8)
It's what's good fuyya. ;D
That is served in heaven!
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My mouth is burning now. One can of wonderful cajun-style boiled peanuts heated in the micro snaffled up in a frenzy of munchies.
Thank god I don't have 10 pounds of them...
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I wish we didn't have to buy Raw Walmart peanuts but you got to have raw nuts!
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Update....
Canned all I had left and my wonderful and loving kids came over Father's Day and took all of the pints home with them >:( >:( >:(
%$&#ing Kids!!!
I love them though :D :D :D
So, bought some more.
This time I pressure cooked them. Tubercle thought, why not? I pressure cook everything else ;D
I put a couple of pounds in a 1 cup salt/1gallon water ratio brine and brought them to a boil and cut off the heatand let them soak in the hot brine for 1 hour to saturate the hulls. Clamped down the lid and then 45 minutes @ 15 psi. They turned out better than if they had been cooked all day.
I have found a new method 8) 8)
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I need to find a way to get a sack from tubercle!
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I need to find a way to get a sack from tubercle!
Y'all ain't got Valencias in Colorado?
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I'm in WisconSIN! Don't have peanuts here. Sadly.
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I'm in WisconSIN! Don't have peanuts here. Sadly.
My bad.. :-[ :-[ The Boulder made me think of Colorado.
In any case...cost + S&H might solve that. PM?
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I take it this is raw peanut season? Do they store well fresh, or is boiling/canning the best way to go?
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Keep them in your root cellar.
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Got it. Step 1 - dig a root cellar. ;)
How long will they keep that way?
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Got it. Step 1 - dig a root cellar. ;)
How long will they keep that way?
A year + as long as they are cool/dry.
For boiling/canning, the greener the better. After they cure for a long time then roasting (and then homemade peanut butter ;D) is the only way to go.
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Ah, so if I want to try fresh boiled peanuts I need to get them now? Or can they be frozen and then boiled later?
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Ah, so if I want to try fresh boiled peanuts I need to get them now? Or can they be frozen and then boiled later?
Frozen...Hmmmm????? and then boiled later????
That's new. Never even concidered it. YOU KNOW I HAVE TO TRY I NOW. ARRRRRGGGGGGG!!!!!!!
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Ah, so if I want to try fresh boiled peanuts I need to get them now? Or can they be frozen and then boiled later?
Frozen...Hmmmm????? and then boiled later????
That's new. Never even concidered it. YOU KNOW I HAVE TO TRY I NOW. ARRRRRGGGGGGG!!!!!!!
Let me know how it goes, then I can have my brother get some green peanuts and we can boil them up in September. ;D
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for what it's worth tubercle, google said this:
Consumers of boiled peanuts much prefer fresh green peanuts or frozen green peanuts brought back to a boil, rather than some type of dried or canned boiled peanuts. Freezing does not seem to harm the flavor at all. (http://greenpeanuts.net/)
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for what it's worth tubercle, google said this:
Consumers of boiled peanuts much prefer fresh green peanuts or frozen green peanuts brought back to a boil, rather than some type of dried or canned boiled peanuts. Freezing does not seem to harm the flavor at all. (http://greenpeanuts.net/)
Seriously, I don't know why freezing wouldn't work. Just never concidered it...UNTIL NOW!!!! Mmmuuuuhahahahhaha.
Fresh peanuts all year long ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Maybe do a test - freeze some without boiling and some after they've been boiled. Then boil them again and see which is better. We'll be waiting :)
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Raw peanuts and dried peanuts don't get it. They have to be green peanuts.
Boil all day? I fill a five gallon stockpot 2/3 full with green peanuts, fill with water about an inch or two over the peanuts, bring to boil and turn heat down to a medium-low boil, cover with a lid that is tilted to catch steam but not allow boil-over, boil two hours, add a cup of salt, boil another hour, turn off heat, when all of the peanuts have sunk to the bottom (saturated with water) they are ready. Drain and eat. Never had enough left over to do anything but put in a ziplock for the next day's pau hana.
Canned boiled peanuts are like canned corn - they'll do if you're hiding from nuclear winter in a fallout shelter, but pretty yucky compared to the real deal
When I lived in Florida, green peanut season coincided with the start of football season. Here in Hawaii they think boiled peanuts are made with dried peanuts. I'm on a quest for green Hawaiian peanuts. May have to try my hand at growing them myself. Dees locals need to see what boiled peanuts can really be!
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I would love to try this but I can't imagine where I would get green peanuts in the NYC area.
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I'm gonna try and hit the 67th annual Floresville Peanut Festiva (http://www.floresvillepeanutfestival.org/)l later on in the year. Not too far from the house by Texas standards.
Hopefully there'll be boiled peanuts there. :)
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In the movie Stand By Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Ze9T40gqg) the boys are sitting around a campfire talikng... One of the boys says, "If I could have only one food for the rest on my life? That's easy - Pez, cherry flavored Pez."
If I could have only one food for the rest on my life? That's easy - boiled peanuts!
BTW Goofy is a dog (says the guy who was one of the original guys in the Goofy costume at Walt Disney World).
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OMG I FOUND RAW PEANUTS I FOUND RAW PEANUTS.
Going to boil them -NOW- and feed them to the wife. It will be her first experience.
Sadly, I couldn't find any small brown paper bags. Oh well, next time.
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OMG I FOUND RAW PEANUTS I FOUND RAW PEANUTS.
Going to boil them -NOW- and feed them to the wife. It will be her first experience.
Sadly, I couldn't find any small brown paper bags. Oh well, next time.
Congrats ;D
A styrofoam cup is concidered an exceptable substitue for a paper bag in extreme emergencies.
Tell your wife that if she is outside it is deemed proper etiquette to spit out the hulls. This comes after perfecting the technique of popping the whole thing in the mouth, cracking and getting the nuts out then spitting out the hulls. Go easy in her. It takes practice. :D :D This is especially useful while fishing, watching dirt track racing or a baseball game.
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Tell your wife that if she is outside it is deemed proper etiquette to spit out the hulls. This comes after perfecting the technique of popping the whole thing in the mouth, cracking and getting the nuts out then spitting out the hulls.
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Are we talking boiled peanuts or sunflower seeds?
Pop the whole thing in your mouth and you'll OD on salt.
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Tell your wife that if she is outside it is deemed proper etiquette to spit out the hulls. This comes after perfecting the technique of popping the whole thing in the mouth, cracking and getting the nuts out then spitting out the hulls.
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Are we talking boiled peanuts or sunflower seeds?
Pop the whole thing in your mouth and you'll OD on salt.
It's best achieved when you just have that one tooth to slice the pod open... :D
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Tell your wife that if she is outside it is deemed proper etiquette to spit out the hulls. This comes after perfecting the technique of popping the whole thing in the mouth, cracking and getting the nuts out then spitting out the hulls.
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Are we talking boiled peanuts or sunflower seeds?
Pop the whole thing in your mouth and you'll OD on salt.
It's best achieved when you just have that one tooth to slice the pod open... :D
Y'all got to get your game on.
Crack it along the seam with the side teeth. Spit out the half hull. Another slight bite pops out the 2 or 3 nuts, spit out the
remaining hull. Enjoy.
This is only for advanced users. Salt overload can be a problem.
Maybe the bite the hull in half-suck out the peanuts-throw away the hull method is best for '168's wife to start ;D
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Can you eat mudbugs one handed?
Doug Lindley of the Crescent City Homebrewers showed me how back in `93.
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Can you eat mudbugs one handed?
Doug Lindley of the Crescent City Homebrewers showed me how back in `93.
now that is talent.
I make a complete mess with 2 hands.
But I love them so.
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Can you eat mudbugs one handed?
Doug Lindley of the Crescent City Homebrewers showed me how back in `93.
now that is talent.
I make a complete mess with 2 hands.
But I love them so.
Pop a bug - sip a beer... repeat!
Sure do wish they'd have another NHC in NOLA again. I'll swim all the way to get there if I have to!
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Can you eat mudbugs one handed?
Doug Lindley of the Crescent City Homebrewers showed me how back in `93.
now that is talent.
I make a complete mess with 2 hands.
But I love them so.
Pop a bug - sip a beer... repeat!
Sure do wish they'd have another NHC in NOLA again. I'll swim all the way to get there if I have to!
The whole thing?!?
Dang.
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Can you eat mudbugs one handed?
Doug Lindley of the Crescent City Homebrewers showed me how back in `93.
now that is talent.
I make a complete mess with 2 hands.
But I love them so.
Pop a bug - sip a beer... repeat!
Sure do wish they'd have another NHC in NOLA again. I'll swim all the way to get there if I have to!
The whole thing?!?
Dang.
No, just the tail meat.
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Can you eat mudbugs one handed?
Doug Lindley of the Crescent City Homebrewers showed me how back in `93.
now that is talent.
I make a complete mess with 2 hands.
But I love them so.
Pop a bug - sip a beer... repeat!
Sure do wish they'd have another NHC in NOLA again. I'll swim all the way to get there if I have to!
The whole thing?!?
Dang.
No, just the tail meat.
Oh :-[ :-[ :-[
Suck the heads 8) 8) 8)
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Can you eat mudbugs one handed?
Doug Lindley of the Crescent City Homebrewers showed me how back in `93.
now that is talent.
I make a complete mess with 2 hands.
But I love them so.
Pop a bug - sip a beer... repeat!
Sure do wish they'd have another NHC in NOLA again. I'll swim all the way to get there if I have to!
The whole thing?!?
Dang.
No, just the tail meat.
Oh :-[ :-[ :-[
Suck the heads 8) 8) 8)
No, too much spice concentrates up in there for me. I do stick a pinky finger in there and scoop out some head fat from time to time though. Good stuff!
Maybe we should start a mudbug thread?
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I would love to try this but I can't imagine where I would get green peanuts in the NYC area.
check out the farmers markets. Look to the asian stands, At least here in norcal they are all over at the right time of year. I Could be wrong but I think of NYC as THE PLACE YOU CAN GET ANYTHING!!!
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Also, African markets should have them.
Wife was disgusted at first, and then she tasted one. Then she ate half the batch (!). These coulda been boiled for another hour, though, as they weren't quite to that mushy shell stage. Good stuff though. It's been a while since I last had them, and I realized last night that they remind me a lot of cooked chickpeas. Perhaps some peanut-based tahini or falafel? Or would that just be fried peanut butter?
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Also, African markets should have them.
Wife was disgusted at first, and then she tasted one. Then she ate half the batch (!). These coulda been boiled for another hour, though, as they weren't quite to that mushy shell stage. Good stuff though. It's been a while since I last had them, and I realized last night that they remind me a lot of cooked chickpeas. Perhaps some peanut-based tahini or falafel? Or would that just be fried peanut butter?
My wife's best friend was in africa for the peace corps for a few years and my wife went to visit her. Apparently there is a peanut preperation there that involves beating the nuts in a big morter and pestle until the fat separates from the protein and they end up with a firm dough which is then fried in the peanut oil. sounds kind of like falafel to me.
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Sounds like we need to try a recipe.
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As a result of a conversation with boulderbrew and searching for some fresh nuts from this year's crop, I found out that there is a peanut shortage. This is the first I have heard of it but those in the grocery business have already got the heads up.
Peanut butter prices are expected to double and things with peanut butter in them will increase also.
Apparantly the drought caused low quality and yields, even in neighboring Georgia; (AKA Jawww-Jah).
Google "peanut shortage".
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I found some green peanuts at the Maku'u farmers market around the corner from my home. $5/lb or $9 for a #2 bag. I almost bit the bullet and bought a bag, except the vendor/farmer, a Filipino women insisted on lecturing me in pigin that there is no such thing as green peanuts, "Peanuts no green! Peanuts brown! Peanuts ALWAYS brown. No green peanuts... Why you say peanuts green? Peanuts never green. Peanuts always brown! You silly you think peanuts green, ha, ha, ha..."
I finally handed the bag back and said, "No thank you. If you want to sell peanuts at $4.50 a pound you need to work on your sales pitch."
Sometimes the South seems a million miles away...
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I found some green peanuts at the Maku'u farmers market around the corner from my home. $5/lb or $9 for a #2 bag. I almost bit the bullet and bought a bag, except the vendor/farmer, a Filipino women insisted on lecturing me in pigin that there is no such thing as green peanuts, "Peanuts no green! Peanuts brown! Peanuts ALWAYS brown. No green peanuts... Why you say peanuts green? Peanuts never green. Peanuts always brown! You silly you think peanuts green, ha, ha, ha..."
I finally handed the bag back and said, "No thank you. If you want to sell peanuts at $4.50 a pound you need to work on your sales pitch."
Sometimes the South seems a million miles away...
Sounds similar to the wet- vs. fresh-hop dialog.
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Sounds similar to the wet- vs. fresh-hop dialog.
;D
Except "green" already has the meaning "new" or "fresh". If you want to start calling them green hops instead, I'll support that. ;)
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I still hold out hope for 25# of fresh green peanuts, Thanks to Tubercle for searching for me. I'm optimistic!
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I would love to try this but I can't imagine where I would get green peanuts in the NYC area.
check out the farmers markets. Look to the asian stands, At least here in norcal they are all over at the right time of year. I Could be wrong but I think of NYC as THE PLACE YOU CAN GET ANYTHING!!!
Any good Asian grocery store (of which there are plenty in the NY/NJ area) should have them.
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Interesting factoids and cooking method. :)
http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/BoiledPeanutsHistory.htm
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If you add the salt at the begining of the boil as stated in that recipe your peanuts will get way too salty. Let your peanuts boil for a couple of hours first, then add and mix in the salt. When the peanuts are done, turn off the heat and allow the peanuts to sit in the brine until they have all sunk to the bottom of the boiling pot. Then drain and feast!
Don't know nothin' bout no sweet tea or soda pop... BEER!