South Georgians--Any Green Peanuts Yet? (Savannah, Toccoa: buy, school, to live in)

[TakeAhike]

I won't even try to think how many lbs of green peanuts/boiled I have consumed over the years. I need more I can tell you that.

Are they ready? When will they be ready?

What is your favorite method of preparing this delicacy?

We do them in the pressure cooker and then salt heavily when they come out. Never even one little peanut left. But, you know....

TakeAhike

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by TakeAhike

I won't even try to think how many lbs of green peanuts/boiled I have consumed over the years. I need more I can tell you that.

What do they taste like? Beans? Peas? My wife wants to try them, but she's too scared to actually go through with it.

[Bulldawgfan]

All I can offer is this... based on the health and overall amount of peanuts out there growing, it looks to be a bumper crop this year. I am no farmer, but the soy and cotton cannot hold a candle to how the peanuts look right now. Perhaps tomorrow I will kick some fresh ones up and see for myself.

[TakeAhike]

Originally Posted by Bulldawgfan

All I can offer is this... based on the health and overall amount of peanuts out there growing, it looks to be a bumper crop this year. I am no farmer, but the soy and cotton cannot hold a candle to how the peanuts look right now. Perhaps tomorrow I will kick some fresh ones up and see for myself.

Oh Good--a bumper crop. I cannot wait. Seems like they used to be ready right before Labor Day--back to school. So school starts earlier and the peanuts are ready earlier, right? j/k

I will put the water on--just thinking about them makes me happy.

RCSteiner--

Your wife is in for a treat--they are salty, for one thing. Yes, they have a pea like taste, soft from being boiled or steamed --but they are peanuts--and raw/green.

What you do is get a Coca Cola preferably one in a glass bottle and chill it until it almost freezes and get a big bowl of boiled peanuts--and another bowl for the shells and sit out on the patio or porch and eat and eat and eat.

You might have some watermelon along with your peanuts. Helps to clear the palate.

Actually, in the fall and right now,too--if you drive through North and South GA you can buy boiled peanuts straight from the cast iron pot and eat and drive and sip your coke. That is a vacation --add a tomato sandwich for lunch and you are in 'High Cotton'.

TakeAhike

[capri man]

dang, yall made me hungry!! just went to the freezer and got me a quart of them out. nukeing them as i type!!

[TakeAhike]

Originally Posted by capri man

dang, yall made me hungry!! just went to the freezer and got me a quart of them out. nukeing them as i type!!

Not fair, just not fair!!!

Wait until I get mine--they will be fresh and hot and sooooo gooood!

I can get on I85S you know and come right down there. I used to live in Savannah and I know the way.

For some reason--I never found many boiled peanut stands in Savannah. Maybe didn't go to the right places???

I find more in North GA. In fact, there is a lady near Toccoa that does this year round and that sounds like a job for me. I am so glad she decided to do this--a public service. My friend thinks I go to Toccoa to visit her--but really she is just on the way to the peanut stand.

TakeAhike

[mccarley]

Originally Posted by TakeAhike

We do them in the pressure cooker and then salt heavily when they come out.
TakeAhike

I always boil them in a strong brine solution.