Re: Boiled Green Peanuts

On 10/24/2024 5:01 PM, Carol wrote:

jmcquown wrote:
 

On 10/22/2024 7:06 PM, Carol wrote:

It's when I can only find them at Asian American.  I decided to try
it and it worked.  Self taught cooks tend to be like that.
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You think I'm not a self-taught cook?  There are no Asian markets
around here but that is also not the first thing I think of when I
think of Southern boiled peanuts as a snack.
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Jill

 Sorry, lost all messages sent on the 23rd.  Found it I think.
 Anyway, didn't mean like cooking school, more like Mom or Dad could
cook so you picked up more on it.
 

My mother hated to cook.  My father could cook a few things well, like an excellent Navy Bean soup.  But he didn't do much cooking, either.  I learned to cook in self-defense so as an adult on my own I wouldn't be stuck eating pre-made Freezer Queen(brand) type dinners with instant mashed potatoes and store-bought canned vegetables.  I bought cookbooks.

No worries on not being an 'Asian cook'.  That's obviously more a life
experience but most of my cooking just uses odd spices from then.  I'm
more prone to grab soy sauce or Jufran Banana sauce.
 

No worries.  I definitely don't cook nearly as much rice as you do but I associate that and a lot of your spices and sauces with so-called Asian cooking.

Now a whole series on bread making that took over an hour to type up
will have to be redone except saved 1.

I've baked lots of bread from scratch in my life using recipes from both of my grandmother's.  But I don't eat a lot of bread so there is no point to my owning a bread machine or producing a lot of any kind of bread from scratch on a regular basis.
Jill