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Kajikit Jun 5, 2008 02:33 PM

Favourite peanut product/dish?

I've just started eating nuts again and I think I'm addicted - I'd honestly forgotten that peanuts could taste so good! what's your favourite way to enjoy peanuts?

  1. Miss Needle Jun 6, 2008 12:14 PM

    Bouchon Bakery's Nutter Butters!

    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/din...

    1. chocabot Jun 6, 2008 11:26 AM

      One of my favourites is peanut "salad" from Padma Laskshmi's Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet. Essentially it's raw peanuts boiled with bay leaf, drained and tossed with chili, diced tomato, lime juice, salt and lots of cilantro. I change the proportions to suit my taste. It doesn't sound like much but it's great.

      I also like peanuts in stirfries and as a garnish for vietnamese dishes.

      I've also heard of Senegalese peanut soup but haven't yet tried it myself.

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        dolores Jun 6, 2008 12:13 PM

        Yes, peanut soup. AB recently made that. And he made a peanut butter pie with pb from peanuts he roasted. Yum.

      2. davmar77 Jun 6, 2008 09:43 AM

        cold sesame noodles

        also,big daddy's restaurant in massapequa park,ny,used to serve a dish that was a combination of southern and oriental.it was called billy carter's crawfish.the main items were crawfish tails,peanut butter,honey,soy sauce and some crushed hot pepper.it's kind of a southern style sate.i still make it once in a while.

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          dolores Jun 6, 2008 10:07 AM

          Numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 -- peanut butter, with a spoon, first dipped in strawberry preserves.

          Then:

          Out of the can -- current fave, from the Peanut Roaster. OMG.
          On a salad, with honey mustard dressing.
          In a bowl, with honey mustard dressing, hold the lettuce.
          The butter again, on macaroni with cheese and sugar.
          Peanut oil.
          Nuts again, with chicken cutlets.
          Butter, on ice cream, Trader Joe's, because it's so very creamy.

          If there's another way, I hope to find it out.

          1. re: davmar77
            beelzebozo Jun 6, 2008 12:36 PM

            wouldn't cold sesame noodles usually be made with tahini paste, which is made from sesame seeds? i guess some variations call for peanut butter.

            1. re: beelzebozo
              Miss Needle Jun 6, 2008 12:48 PM

              Most recipes I see call for peanut butter just because it's easier to find. People say they're interchangeable (even cookbooks) but there's a significant difference in the taste for me. I prefer the sesame paste.

          2. misnatalie Jun 5, 2008 03:12 PM

            Chicken Sate with Peanut Sauce
            Crunch N Munch
            P.B. & Co. Cinnamon Raisin Swirl peanut butter- on just about everything from my oatmeal to my bagels or right out of the jar
            ANY Jer's Chocolate

            1. Catskillgirl Jun 5, 2008 02:57 PM

              100 different ways. But right now it's over french vanilla ice cream with a little chocolate syrup. Love the salt/sweet flavor!

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                beelzebozo Jun 5, 2008 05:03 PM

                this mystic combination is what makes dairy queen's peanut buster parfait so delectable.

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                  Catskillgirl Jun 6, 2008 10:13 AM

                  It's also the key to their Mexican sundaes! At least that's what they were called many, many years ago when I was a kid. And dinosaurs roamed the earth, lol!

              2. mrbozo Jun 5, 2008 02:39 PM

                Dry roasted by the handful, and natural peanut butter (no salt and no sugar) with Valentina hot sauce on toasted multigrain bread. OK, noodles with peanut sauce also schmeck.

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