Have you ever been to a peanut boil? It's fun!

[Maddy McCall]

Have you even ever tasted boiled peanuts?

When I lived in Texas, the most recent time, I always told my colleagues about my cravings for boiled peanuts. Most of them thought the concept was just disgusting.

I even brought some boiled peanuts to work, and NO ONE would eat them. They thought that the peanuts looked slimy and gross.

A peanut boil in Mississippi is much the same as a crawfish boil. Good friends get together, bring ice chests full of beer, and sit around the propane cooker, on top of which is a huge, black-iron wash pot filled with peanuts, salt, and water. It takes a good four hours for the peanuts to cook. Meanwhile, the adults drink beer and shoot the bull, and the kids run rough-shod, playing tag and hide-n-seek.

I'm having a peanut boil this weekend, if I can get several big sacks of fresh jumbo peanuts. If you've never tried this delicacy, you don't know what you're missing.

Tell us about delectable delights from your local area. Let's see what's truly odd and what's more common than anyone had thought.

[KitchenWitch]

1. Sounds like fun

The big thing here is Lutefisk and Lefse. I love Lefse, but will not eat white fish cured in lye for any money. (It looks and SMELLS nasty.)

[Az]

2. Must resist doing copycat thread of this one

Bad Az.... Bad! :spank:

[KitchenWitch]

3. LOL

:rofl:

:spank:

[Maddy McCall]

5. Lemme guess.

Male private parts boil?

:rofl:

[Az]

7. It's just sitting there calling out the forces of discord and mischief

Very hard to resist.

[marzipanni]

31. Hey, don't make fun of my locale's delicacy!

Prairie oysters...you know, ram and bull testicles. Our friend, a Basque sheepman, stir fries a bunch up at our veterinarian's annual spring barbecue among the beautiful green, rolling hills surrounded by grazing cattle.
I ate one. The men scarf 'em. Also deep fried wild turkey and barbecued
rattlesnake.

(on edit:getting too tired to post!)

[Maddy McCall]

4. I am completely lost.

Which is cured in lye? Have you ever tried it? What does it taste like?

[KitchenWitch]

6. The fish is cured in lye

The smell makes me ill, I can't imagine the flavor.

[Maddy McCall]

12. You know, hominy grits are cured in lye.

And they are DELICIOUS. :9

[KitchenWitch]

13. But the difference is the lye is rinsed off the grits

Not rinsed off the fish...

[Maddy McCall]

16. Ooch. That sounds lethal to eat.

I'm with you. I woulnd't touch it.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. OMG are you Norwegian?

That stuff is n-a-a-sty!

[KitchenWitch]

18. No but I live in a very Scandihoovian area

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. I have a recipe for warmed peanut hand rolls in one of my cookbooks

that I have never made...it calls for boiled peanuts..maybe I'll give it a try :D

[KitchenWitch]

9. Is that anything like Pecan Hand Pie?

:evilgrin:

[Maddy McCall]

14. I promise you this.

If you boil some peanuts, they will never make it into the rolls. You will eat them all in one sitting, they are that good.

:hug: :pals:

[Wapsie B]

10. That does sound tasty.

Bet it smells wonderful when it's cooking too.

[Maddy McCall]

15. It does. The only thing you have to master is the amount of salt to...

put in the pot. I usually use about a half/cup of salt to 5 lbs of peanuts. Cover with water, boil until soft.


I'm making myself hungry. :D

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

19. I'll bet they would taste good in crab boil too!

[Maddy McCall]

24. Delicious with crab boil.

Very yummy. :9

[Wapsie B]

21. Making me hungry too.

We tried growing peanuts one year but didn't do very well here.
There aren't too many dishes here that are particular to this area. It's kind of a generic, bland hodge podge of food. Norwegian cuisine, with some German, Dutch, Polish. Well maybe what we call Mississippi Tuna. Iowa Carp. It's not just for breakfast anymore.

[Maddy McCall]

32. Iowa carp...

I've actually eaten carp before. My coonass buddy grills it and it's delicious.

Not Iowa carp, but Louisiana carp. :D

[Jara sang]

17. South eastern Virginia is peanut country

so hell yeah, boiled peanuts are awesome.

[Maddy McCall]

27. Yay!

Another boiled peanut aficionado. :hi:

[SeattleGirl]

20. My Uncle Londus in Arkansas was a peanut farmer

We had boiled peanuts and fresh roasted peanuts! YUM!! He used to take me for rides on his old John Deere tractor!

[Maddy McCall]

28. Yes, people in Texas eat parched (roasted) peanuts.

I like those, too. But my absolute favorite is boiled. :D

Your Uncle Londus sounds like a sweet ol' fellow. :)

[southlandshari]

22. Maddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When is your shindig? Can I come? I've missed you so much!!!!

How goes it with you? Been thinking about you today - Mr. SLS is going to be in your neck of the woods for a whole week next month. Will you be around?

Miss you, sweet woman!

:hug:

[Maddy McCall]

25. Hey! I'll be here. I was supposed to attend a conference in...

New Mexico, but I'm going to have to bow out. Katrina took all of my plane ticket money. :D

And hell yes, you can come to my shindig. Hope you don't mind listening to a bunch of southern male fire fighters talking 'bout their glory days. :D

:hug:

[southlandshari]

29. When?

(please say Sunday)

:D

[Maddy McCall]

30. Nope...Saturday night.

IF we can convince the town council to schedule trick-or-treating for Saturday night.

:D

If not now, soon. I'm going to take a tent to Merh's and camp out in her yard with MMjr. soon, since the weather is so mild right now. We have to have some kind of get together in November. Somewhere.

:pals:

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. Fish boils and pig roasts for this former WI boy

Never been to a peanut boil, but I would love to - I love peanuts!

[Maddy McCall]

26. We have pit roasts here, too. Also goat roasts.

I prefer the pig, though. :D

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33. Yes, I've had boiled peanuts and they are horrible. But have fun anyway!