Southern Boiled Peanuts
Southern Boiled Peanuts

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, southern boiled peanuts. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Southern Boiled Peanuts is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Southern Boiled Peanuts is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have southern boiled peanuts using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Southern Boiled Peanuts:
  1. Take Hardware
  2. Prepare 20 quart pot
  3. Get Ingredients
  4. Take 3 (1.5) pound bags of raw shell peanuts
  5. Take 2 1/2 gallon of spring water, for the soak
  6. Make ready 2 1/2 gallon of spring water, for the boil
  7. Make ready 2 cups of sea salt
  8. Take 2 smoked ham hocks
  9. Get 2 jalapeno peppers, split
  10. Make ready 1 can of beer, (your choice)
Steps to make Southern Boiled Peanuts:
  1. Add the 3 bags of peanuts to the pot along with the presoak water. Cover with the lid and let sit over night. (24 hours)
  2. Drain the peanuts and set them aside. Wash out the pot, removing any grit from the peanuts.
  3. Add another 2.5 gallons of spring water. Add the salt, ham hocks, peppers, and beer to the pot. Bring to a boil.
  4. Once the boil begins, add the peanuts back in and let them boil for 2 to 4 hours. After the first 2 hours, begin pulling out a peanut every 30 minutes and tasting. Once they get slightly al dente, turn off the heat.
  5. Now here is the trick to making tasty boiled peanuts. Leave the peanuts in the brine while the pot cools. I was told that lets peanuts soak up extra flavor…..and it does.
  6. Grab a another cold beer and enjoy.

Foods That Make You Happy

In general, people have been trained to think that “comfort” foods are terrible for the body and must be avoided. At times, if the comfort food is a sugary food or some other junk food, this is very true. Other times, comfort foods can be very nourishing and good for us to eat. Some foods actually do raise your mood when you consume them. When you are feeling a little down and are needing an emotional boost, try some of these.

Eggs, you might be surprised to find out, are great at fighting depression. Just see to it that you don’t get rid of the egg yolk. The egg yolk is the most essential part of the egg in terms of helping you cheer up. Eggs, the yolks especially, are loaded with B vitamins. The B vitamin family can be terrific for elevating your mood. This is because they help your neural transmitters–the parts of your brain that control your mood–run better. Consume an egg and jolly up!

Build a trail mix from seeds and/or nuts. Almonds, cashews, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and so on are all great for elevating your mood. This is because these foods are high in magnesium, which helps to increase your production of serotonin. Serotonin is the “feel good” natural substance that tells your brain how you feel at all times. The more serotonin in your brain, the happier you’ll feel. Not just that, nuts, specifically, are a terrific source of protein.

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You can see, you don’t need to eat junk food or foods that are not good for you so you can feel better! Try a few of these hints instead.