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I boil mine in a large pot on my outdoor fish cooker. Let them slow boil for a couple of hours. I don't time the cooking, I just sample taste them until they are ready. After they have completed boiling, cover them and let them stay in the salty water for about an hour. The fresh green ones are better for boiling than the dry ones. Use lots of salt.
YYYUUUMMM!!!!! I LOVE THEM!!!! No one has them around here. I never get them until I take a drive thru Ala or Ga and then they make a GREAT travel snack! Love to stop and get them hot to eat along the trip. MMMmmmmm...wish I had some now!
green Spanish peanuts are the best. The bigger ones taste like beans. They aren't the same. I think that Spanish peanuts are the only varity that is not grown in huge quanities for the commercial market. I may be wrong, but I think it's one of the grow-it-for-your-own use foods.
Yeah, I know, most folks hate 'em, and tis glad I am for that little favor, cause it leaves more for me. Yesterday I bought 5 lbs of fresh, this years crop green peanuts, they have been aboil for most of the time since, it won't be long......my mouth is watering thinking about them. Gooooooood stuff them boiled peanuts.
Don't take this the wrong way but, Damn You! LOL
Here I am,in Colorado,where nobody knows how to grow peanuts much less how to properly boil them. I went to the local health food store-no raw peanuts and they won't order them either.
Oh well,I guess I will have to enjoy them vicariously thru you and on occasion,my sister.
Peanuts are in the legume family and yea, they taste like boiled, salty beans.....(a sad way to ruin a peanut, IMHO! LOL)
And yea, they are an acquired taste of which my best friend, originally from Birmingham but has lived in Virginia, loves.......I tried them once and that was enough for this California gal! We were either in one of the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, (I'm senile), and she practically gave me whiplash swerving off the road and into this fruit stand that had a boiled peanuts sign...he had just 'finished', scooped them out of a big, black kettle for her and you would have thought she was in hog heaven! (I think she was secretly happy that I didn't like them.....more for her!)
Here I am,in Colorado,where nobody knows how to grow peanuts much less how to properly boil them. I went to the local health food store-no raw peanuts and they won't order them either.
Oh well,I guess I will have to enjoy them vicariously thru you and on occasion,my sister.
Enjoy! Gonna go cry now,sniffle...
Hummmmmm, the new crop is just coming in.... I could ship you a few pounds of green peanuts if you wish. Interestingly enought, I suspect that anyone who truly enjoys the noble ground nut knows that they really don't taste like regular old beans, they are delicious almost to the point of being addictive, once I start munching them it is easy to go through a pound at one sitting.
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