Wow, I've never heard of keeping scrambled egg in the fridge before. I'm sure the cheese and bacon you add balances out not having the yolk. So you reheat it? What's the consistency like?

Any way this can be a sticky???? If someone already said that, sorry.

PamamaJane wrote: »

I pre-cook and pre-bake. Last week I did about 20 pounds of oven roasted chicken legs and thighs. The hack part is in how I freeze things. Using some large Tupperware containers, I put the chicken pieces in one layer in the Tupperware making sure the pieces aren't touching one another. When they are frozen I put them in plastic freezer bags and return them to the freezer. Since they are frozen separately, they don't freeze together and it's easy to take out one or two pieces at a time. I freeze fat bombs the same way. And burger patties, fish fillets, casserole servings, slices of quiche, and anything else that can be prepared ahead and frozen.

That's a great idea. I batch cook, but never thought of freezing the pieces individually. Thanks for the tip.

It's whole nut season! I think that this might be one of the best tips I've read recently. If you eat shell on nuts (walnuts are my choice), they are so much work to eat, you'll eat a whole lot less of them than pre-shelled nuts, which I find way too easy to overeat.

redimock wrote: »

It's whole nut season! I think that this might be one of the best tips I've read recently. If you eat shell on nuts (walnuts are my choice), they are so much work to eat, you'll eat a whole lot less of them than pre-shelled nuts, which I find way too easy to overeat.

Sure, but I also find nuts to be a great snack while driving. Cracking shells is a whole lot harder than just grabbing them out of a bag or tin.

Once, on a road trip (I try to do a road trip once or twice per year between 4K-8K, and 7-11 days each), I was going through GA and kept seeing these boiled peanuts at convenience stores. So I decided to get some to try them out. At first, I was eating the whole thing (shell and all). Then I decided the shell was too stringy and didn't taste very good, so started trying to squeeze the 'meat' out of the peanut. While driving that night, I made a bit of a mess in my car. Once I was eating them properly, they tasted very good, but just too messy. Better for a snack while sitting somewhere with a pile of napkins and a discard bucket handy.

kpk54 wrote: »

We call those "bolied" peanuts in our house. It's a bit of a joke. I traveled eastern North Carolina for work for years. Every spring when a local road side produce stand would open and the spray painted road signs went up, one of the things sold was "bolied peanuts". Same sign so same spelling. Love me some spicy hot "bolied" peanuts.

I'm not disputing they taste good (once I'm eating the right part of the peanut). I had some with a cajun spice blend of some sort... same brand was sold in all the convenience stores it seemed, and they had regular and cajun. But way too messy to eat while driving.

midwesterner85 wrote: »

redimock wrote: »

It's whole nut season! I think that this might be one of the best tips I've read recently. If you eat shell on nuts (walnuts are my choice), they are so much work to eat, you'll eat a whole lot less of them than pre-shelled nuts, which I find way too easy to overeat.

Sure, but I also find nuts to be a great snack while driving. Cracking shells is a whole lot harder than just grabbing them out of a bag or tin.

Once, on a road trip (I try to do a road trip once or twice per year between 4K-8K, and 7-11 days each), I was going through GA and kept seeing these boiled peanuts at convenience stores. So I decided to get some to try them out. At first, I was eating the whole thing (shell and all). Then I decided the shell was too stringy and didn't taste very good, so started trying to squeeze the 'meat' out of the peanut. While driving that night, I made a bit of a mess in my car. Once I was eating them properly, they tasted very good, but just too messy. Better for a snack while sitting somewhere with a pile of napkins and a discard bucket handy.

Ah yes - I definitely change the rules during long car trips. Then I eat ALL of the macadamias..... I am just so glad to have these in-shell walnuts in the house right now. All the yum without the guilt (that I usually feel after eating way too many nuts). My grocery store didn't have the only walnuts bags till yesterday, so I got a little bit overexcited. (The mixed nuts just don't do it for me).

kirkor wrote: »

redimock wrote: »

Then I eat ALL of the macadamias.....

Man, when I'm rich and famous I will be buying macadamia nuts all the time! Reminds me of this:

Sure, but the price to add guac at certain places (such as those rhyming with ih-po-tlay) is ridiculous. I'll still do it occasionally.

Yuummm...now I'm hungry....Love both of the soup recipes....Will try!

kpk54 wrote: »

midwesterner85 wrote: »

kpk54 wrote: »

We call those "bolied" peanuts in our house. It's a bit of a joke. I traveled eastern North Carolina for work for years. Every spring when a local road side produce stand would open and the spray painted road signs went up, one of the things sold was "bolied peanuts". Same sign so same spelling. Love me some spicy hot "bolied" peanuts.

I'm not disputing they taste good (once I'm eating the right part of the peanut). I had some with a cajun spice blend of some sort... same brand was sold in all the convenience stores it seemed, and they had regular and cajun. But way too messy to eat while driving.

I didn't think you were. My husband would dispute their "goodness" though. He doesn't like them-indicating peanuts should be crunchy not mushy.

I'm with your husband on this one. To me they taste more like wet blotting paper than a legume. Earlier today, my husband and I passed a stand selling "Jumbo Boiled Peanuts." DH's comment: "What's even worse than boiled peanuts? Jumbo boiled peanuts."

Thanks for this thread! Noob here, and I am about to go properly wash my lettuce now