Boiled Peanuts a tasty treat.

hearingimpared

schwarcw wrote: »

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Anybody tried a deep fried Oreo?

They give your taste buds orgasms!!!

Demiurge

hearingimpared wrote: »

They give your taste buds orgasms!!!

That's how your stomach gets pregnant.

hearingimpared

Demiurge wrote: »

That's how your stomach gets pregnant.

No wonder I can't see my feet!:eek::D

Jstas

Well, I can see your feet and let me tell ya, you ain't missin' nuthin'!

virtualdean

I-SIG wrote: »

Yes, but they have to be raw peanuts.

I like to crack one end of the shell and suck all the juice then eat the peanuts.

Now you're talking! Treat them like crawdads..

I've eaten boiled salted peanuts all over Asia and my friend eats them throughout Africa.
In Europe and Japan...roasted chestnuts are the tops.. I mailed chestnuts to my Mother in the US and she just cooks them several ways, including microwaves.. You would be surprised at now few people have even tried them. It used to be as popular as popcorn.

Jstas

virtualdean wrote: »

Now you're talking! Treat them like crawdads..

I've eaten boiled salted peanuts all over Asia and my friend eats them throughout Africa.
In Europe and Japan...roasted chestnuts are the tops.. I mailed chestnuts to my Mother in the US and she just cooks them several ways, including microwaves.. You would be surprised at now few people have even tried them. It used to be as popular as popcorn.

Chestnut blight put an end to it. Not enough crop trees left to make chestnuts viable. At least until they either get a good blight resistant strain or find a way to eradicate it.

It's a shame too because the blight came from Asia. (Why do so many invasive and destructive species come from Asia?) It decimated the American Chestnut to the point where it all but disappeared. There are some stands of trees that are old growth and show definitive resistance to blight. Scientists have been trying to find the genes that define that characteristic and select a strain that has it. But chestnuts grow slow so it takes time to get a production level crop available.

It's not just the fruit that is so good. The hardwood is strong like Oak or Ash but has such a complex grain structure that it is a thing of beauty when used for furniture or other decorative trim, moldings and such. I hope we can get it to come back.

hearingimpared

virtualdean wrote: »

Now you're talking! Treat them like crawdads..

Have you ever had crawdads cooked Italian style like macaroni and crabs? . . . they are just so go and impart this really sweet flavor much like crabs into the sauce.

John, I was wondering why chestnuts had become so hard to find and have become really friggin expensive. At Christamas time when we were doing the "Feast of the Seven Fishes" my son and I went all over Delaware and Chester County, PA trying to find them and when we did you had to pay an arm an a leg for them. Thanks for the info.

Jstas

hearingimpared wrote: »

Have you ever had crawdads cooked Italian style like macaroni and crabs? . . . they are just so go and impart this really sweet flavor much like crabs into the sauce.

John, I was wondering why chestnuts had become so hard to find and have become really friggin expensive. At Christamas time when we were doing the "Feast of the Seven Fishes" my son and I went all over Delaware and Chester County, PA trying to find them and when we did you had to pay an arm an a leg for them. Thanks for the info.

How long have you been looking? 'Cause the blight was introduced in like 1905 or something and most trees were wiped out by the early 40's. My dad has pictures that my uncle took when he was a boy of an area where a local Boy Scout camp is. There are huge stands of these American Chestnuts, a couple hundred feet tall, dominating the landscape. It was quite impressive. I thought it was California but my dad told me it was NJ and PA in the late 20's, early 30's before the blight destroyed the trees. It actually made me sad. I would have loved to have seen these massive groves of gigantic trees like that.

Check out these guys for all the info you could possible want:
http://www.acf.org/history.php

Here's some info on the blight:
http://www.ppws.vt.edu/griffin/blight.html

These guys are right here in your neck of the woods:
http://www.buychestnuts.com/grow.htm

And still more info as well as a bunch of links and even some recipes:
http://www.elmpost.org/chestnut.htm

John30_30

Jstas wrote: »

Chestnut blight put an end to it. Not enough crop trees left to make chestnuts viable. At least until they either get a good blight resistant strain or find a way to eradicate it.

It's a shame too because the blight came from Asia. (Why do so many invasive and destructive species come from Asia?) It decimated the American Chestnut to the point where it all but disappeared. There are some stands of trees that are old growth and show definitive resistance to blight. Scientists have been trying to find the genes that define that characteristic and select a strain that has it. But chestnuts grow slow so it takes time to get a production level crop available.

It's not just the fruit that is so good. The hardwood is strong like Oak or Ash but has such a complex grain structure that it is a thing of beauty when used for furniture or other decorative trim, moldings and such. I hope we can get it to come back.

Plenty of destructive species from Europe too. Witness starlings. Dutch elm disease. Dutch people in general. ( I kid)

+1 on the love of the mighty chestnut tree and its lumber, but for the sake of accuracy, the blight was compounded by the idiots clear-cutting those majestic groves.
As you note about resistant trees, there were almost certainly trees cut down that were blight-resistant or immune that could have been used to regenerate the entire species.

Jstas

The blight did far more damage than harvesting for lumber ever did. The American Chestnut is estimated to have made up as much as 60% of the hardwoods in the forests that covered North America before the blight hit. It was the most common tree out there. Sure the harvesting probably took out some resistant trees but 90% of the total population was taken out by blight. Harvesting practices, no matter how damaging, did not play that much of a roll in the destruction of the population. The biggest problem is that sapling American Chestnut trees will still grow but they never reach reproductive maturity before the blight hits them. If they don't reproduce, they don't repopulate and they die off in to extinction.

hearingimpared

Geez I just read those links. That blight is a friggin curse from which there is no escape or return.

virtualdean

Jstas wrote: »

The blight did far more damage than harvesting for lumber ever did. The American Chestnut is estimated to have made up as much as 60% of the hardwoods in the forests that covered North America before the blight hit. It was the most common tree out there. Sure the harvesting probably took out some resistant trees but 90% of the total population was taken out by blight. Harvesting practices, no matter how damaging, did not play that much of a roll in the destruction of the population. The biggest problem is that sapling American Chestnut trees will still grow but they never reach reproductive maturity before the blight hits them. If they don't reproduce, they don't repopulate and they die off in to extinction.

I sent my Mother a couple of pound sack of chesnuts.. she ate them all except for 10 which she planted. 3 grew and 1 is now about a foot tall.
The rest were eaten by squirrels. Its seems to me that the blight is here to stay with or without European chestnuts so might as well grow them.

Sherardp

I made a second batch of boiled peanuts about 3 months ago now. I'll try to get some time in this week to make some more. I run out of them so fast, Japanese love them. I may have to start selling them for extra buck or two.