Hot Peanuts

[mjarrels]

Love those Philippine hot peanuts, last year when we left, my wife bought about 600 pesos worth from a street vendor. Lasted about a week once we arrived back home, just don't rub your eye after eating a hand full. Friends arrived yesterday from a Christmas visit to the Philippines and are bring me more bags of hot peanuts. Almost worth the price of a round trip ticket just to eat those nuts and drink San Maguel beer.

"Aim High Olongapoe"

mark

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Love those Philippine hot peanuts, last year when we left, my wife bought about 600 pesos worth from a street vendor. Lasted about a week once we arrived back home, just don't rub your eye after eating a hand full. Friends arrived yesterday from a Christmas visit to the Philippines and are bring me more bags of hot peanuts. Almost worth the price of a round trip ticket just to eat those nuts and drink San Maguel beer.

"Aim High Olongapoe"

mark

I've never eaten the Phillippine variety, but have enjoyed some of the local variety, grown over around Hydro, OK. Yes, keep your hands away from your eyes; as a matter of fact, any part of the body exhibiting mucous membranes...

 

[TCJatko]

I wondered how you kept them warm for over a week.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I wondered how you kept them warm for over a week.

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[Bird]

I've never eaten any from the Phillippines, but I'm a peanut addict; gotta have a quarter pound or so each day. I like dry roasted peanuts, cocktail peanuts, and mixed nuts, but perhaps my favorite is the Spanish Redskins. Lately, I've been disappointed in the ones I've gotten so now I've bought raw shelled peanuts and raw shelled pecans, and I'm roasting them myself, then adding butter and salt.

 

[dmccarty]

Peas, peas, peas, peas
Eating goober peas
Goodness, how delicious,
Eating goober peas.

...

Just before the battle, the General hears a row
He says "The Yanks are coming, I hear their rifles now."
He turns around in wonder, and what d'ya think he sees?
The Georgia Militia, eating goober peas.

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Fresh boiled peanuts, yum yum yum! :licking::licking::licking:

I like roasted peanuts with no salt. Just plain. Most week days I eat a peanuts and dried fruits for lunch.

Later,
Dan

 

[2LaneCruzer]

What is this about boiled peanuts? I've heard of it, but it didn't sound very appetizing to me. I just automatically put it in the same category as grits and Chickory. Do you boil them in the shell? Salt them afterwards? Just curious.

 

[dmccarty]

What is this about boiled peanuts? I've heard of it, but it didn't sound very appetizing to me. I just automatically put it in the same category as grits and Chickory. Do you boil them in the shell? Salt them afterwards? Just curious.

Boiled peanuts are simply raw peanuts boiled in salted water. I have never made them but the wife's family does. I remember one trip with my dad when we got the hankering for boiled peanuts in sough GA so we got off the interstate until we found a roadside stand selling them. :licking::licking::licking: We can buy boiled peanuts in cans at the grocery store though. When we travel to I95 we go the back roads and pass a couple of road side stands selling veggies and boiled peanuts.

Boiled peanuts are kinda messy to eat and they are very good with beer. :licking::licking::licking:

Later,
Dan

 

[Bird]

What is this about boiled peanuts? I've heard of it, but it didn't sound very appetizing to me. I just automatically put it in the same category as grits and Chickory. Do you boil them in the shell? Salt them afterwards? Just curious.

We have one Walmart in this area that now stocks Margaret Holmes boiled peanuts. They did have a big display on one end of a row and I bought one can of the regular and one can of barbecued. My wife only tasted one of the regular and spit it out. I actually ate one peanut from each can before throwing them in the garbage. I never knew anyone deliberately destroyed peanuts before.:laughing: And I don't think they sold very well here. Walmart pulled off the big display and now has just a few cans on one row.

Boiled peanuts are definitely not in the same category as grits and chickory because either of those are wonderful, even if you don't like them, compared to boiled peanuts that a little hard to eat without gagging.

Population is sure growing fast around here, but I guess we don't have as many immigrants from the southeast as Walmart thought we might have.:laughing:

 

[forgeblast]

anyone ever have smoked peanuts? I heard about them when looking at smokehouses.

 

[mjarrels]

Hot peanuts sold by street venders in the Philippines are shelled peanuts with lots of red hot peppers roasted within. Sold by venders for 10 pesos a bag, about 1/4 a handfull. A 600 peso order made a street venders week, probably doesn't sell that much a week. All inventory sold at one stop. At Victory Liner stops, the venders step on tour the bus selling and step off at the next stop. Goggle Victory Liner, its great story about good people. Jeepny is a good story too. I love the Philippines and I'm not Pinoy, but I'm balikhayan. I can travel anywhere in the Philippines on public transportation but I can't go to town here. Serve me with jury papers? How do I get there?

mark

 

[creekbend]

I have never had the Phillipine variety. Boiled peanuts are commonplace in Georgia and North Florida - at least they used to be. I like them, but I have eaten some from roadside stands or fairs, where they were somewhat too salty for my tastes.

 

[AGRIMAN]

Being a GA boy we grow them and eat them anyway we can get them, but by far my favorite way is boiled. I boil them a bushel at the time and usually they are all gone within a few hours(family and friends). There's nothing like the smell or rumor of peanuts boiling in the shop to attract a crowd.

It's not uncommon for me to boil a bushel every weekend (special recipe) during the season.

 

[deepNdirt]

My son and I have been rivals the past several months trying to see who could turn out the best tasting Boiled Peanut, ( Cajun style )
Not too Hot-n-spicy but yet spicy enough to keep you wanting more, We decide to try boiling our own after having paid 4.00 for the last small bag we got from a local, the price has went up 3 times in this year, started out @ 2.00 then 250 then 3.00 and now 4.00 for the same size serving of ( 1 lb. shared between 3 people) We can buy a 10 lb bag of raw from kroger for around 9.00 and serve over 30 people, no extra cost to cook them we have free wood at our disposal, and I grow my own peppers, however I do have to purchase the sauce, which is less than 1.00 ..... It takes about 7-8 hours to cook them, depending on their size to get them to the right softness/texture, I use about 1/2 cup sea-salt, and 5 large jalapeño peppers, along with 4 oz bottle of cayenne pepper sauce, I found that we need to not put the sauce and peppers in until the last hour of cooking, If when put in to early the spice from the sauce/pepper is evaporated out through the steam,
and I think is the problem many folks have when trying to prepare Cajun style hot boiled peanuts,
For many years now I've been trying to get the local guy who boils them to add some spice heat to some of them, although His atempts has failed, believe it is due to him tossing everything in at the begining and walking away, coming back only to stir them once and while,
My theory which after several experiment batches and later turned into a fact is to get the nut and it's shell soften so can absorb the added flavor, although the longer you let sit in its brine the more spicy the nut will become, so if their good to your taist when through cooking you might want to remove them from the brine/water,
Oh yeah! I think mine turn out better then my sons do, of course I havn't told anyone my recipe but ya'll

 

[forgeblast]

So you dont shell them first?

 

[Car Doc]

I like the horseradish style hot peanuts never tried a boiled peanut or a Philippine hot peanut that I remember. I guess I figured the salted in the shell ones were boiled in salt water but what do I know?

 

[brin]

I love boiled peanuts from the vendors in the country not canned....But do any of you remember the " Beer Nuts " came in a red package and were big in red skins with a sweet coating on them and salt...they were great...I have not seen them in stores in years....????

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I love boiled peanuts from the vendors in the country not canned....But do any of you remember the " Beer Nuts " came in a red package and were big in red skins with a sweet coating on them and salt...they were great...I have not seen them in stores in years....????

Yep, I remember them...but didn't like the sweet coating. Haven't seen them in a long time either, matter of fact, a long, looooong time.

 

[dmccarty]

So you dont shell them first?

Nope, they are boiled in the shell. This makes it kinda fun and messy to get to the peanut. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

The wifey bought some of the spicy canned peanuts by mistake. They were too hot for her but I did not think they were that bad though I prefer the regular.

Our youngest will go through phases of eating boiled peanuts and she can eat a couple cans a day. :confused3::laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[deepNdirt]

" So You don't shell them "
Naw! Though it would certainly speedup the cooking process, I'm afraid one would have to eat them like eating beens from a bowl,
and not much fun in that would be kinda like eating sun-flower seeds already shelled, which my wife likes to do, I'd rather get a mouth full crack-um ..... eat-um... & spit-um:thumbsup: ....................
Actually hard boild peanut are traditionally eating on the way to ball game's, car races, Mud Bogs etc,etc, same as roasted ( only more messy :licking: )