Boiled Peanut recipe
So after a few weeks of pretty complex stuff, we've gone right back down to basics this week. This is a delicious and simple snack or appetizer. We're doing the very most basic version of this recipe that you can do, just salt and water and boil. If you want to add different flavours to your peanuts, it's super easy to do that by adding stock instead of water, dried pepper pods, whole spices, bay leaves, etc... to the water you're boiling them in.
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I chalk that up to the earthy scent of the soil in the shells while it's boiling.
As far as peanut oil, we'll be doing another peanut snack next week: Blister peanuts! And yes, we fried them in peanut oil 
Not the only thing, of course, slavery for instance, but...
The South does most things with food right, but boiling is absolutely the worst thing you can do to peanuts. It turns them into fodder. Worse than fodder - even a self-respecting pig would not eat boiled peanuts. Just my opinion, of course, but any other opinion is wrong.
When I lived in Atlanta a bunch of us were at lunch one day, and were talking about the Kudzu problem. Ways to eradicate it, examples of the destruction it causes, Kudzu havoc, etc. One guy was with us who had been transferred there from some northern city, St. Louis, I think, and finally injected, "Hell. I figured you guys would have figured a way to boil it and eat it by now."
