Boiled P-Nuts

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Over at Rick's forum we were discussing boiled p-nuts and I posted this reply I wanted to share it here as well, this is for boiled p-nut haters and lovers alike:
We grew up eating them, but in my home. BUT they were not just any p-nuts; my folks only boiled the GIANT Raw p-nuts from Georgia, they weren't seasoned with nutin' but salt, I do not go for those fancy new-fangled flavored jobbies! And it was not just boil a bunch of p-nuts and eat 'em either.... it was an affair for the whole neighborhood, my Dad would take a large aluminum tub (you don't see them much these days) and he would stick it over a fire and every kid in the neighborhood would come over to the p-nut boiling event! We would play, stir the p-nuts, play some more, stir the p-nuts, play a while longer then stir, and on and on it would go until those p-nuts in those shells were soft as mush, sometimes you could nibble the inside of the shell and get some nice soft stuff off the shell that tasted real good too. Now those canned boiled p-nuts ought to be outlawed>>>they give boiled p-nuts a bad name and if you do not use the right p-nuts then don't even try to boil them, and if you don't cook them outside well you loose half the fun. There has to be Volley-Ball, and Monopoly and tag and a few kids even getting into shooting the whole thing on Dad's movie camera, so you can view it all again and again for years to come I LOVE MY BOILED P-NUTS um-m-m-m good!

[The Ironic Chef]

I wish we all lived closer. Boiled peanut day sounds like fun. I'd bring the beer.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

I wish we all lived closer. Boiled peanut day sounds like fun. I'd bring the beer.

That would be great fun indeed!!!