Barriehie
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Great northern beans!
What produce/ingredients did you buy or obtain today (2025)?
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Beans for making baked beans, for the uninitiated (including me!)
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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JAS_OH1
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No, the arrow was pointed at the crawfish and shrimp boil...I have that in my pantry, too. Different brand.
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Ahhhhh! Ok.
What is that? Just boiled shrimp and crawfish, or does it have a sauce with it?
JAS_OH1
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No, it's just a seasoning blend. Most people make a cocktail sauce with horseradish, ketchup, etc. to use for a dip with the boiled seafood, except for maybe the crab, which might be eaten plain or with drawn butter. I like a butter, garlic, lemon sauce for crab/lobster.
Barriehie
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Crawfish Shrimp and Crab Boil! I bought that one since it was on sale but try to always buy Zatarain's brand; it's the best.
Zatarain's spices come in a pouch with holes in it but if you're old school you empty all of that into the pot and discard the plastic bag.
I use these to make boiled peanuts...
Barriehie
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I like to use smaller beans for baked beans since they cook faster.
JAS_OH1
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I thought it used to come in a mesh pouch? I haven't bought that brand in so long I forgot, but I don't remember a plastic pouch.Crawfish Shrimp and Crab Boil! I bought that one since it was on sale but try to always buy Zatarain's brand; it's the best. View attachment 122983
Zatarain's spices come in a pouch with holes in it but if you're old school you empty all of that into the pot and discard the plastic bag.View attachment 122984
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I use these to make boiled peanuts...
Barriehie
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Yes, used to be mesh. That pouch is petty restrictive, I think, for utilizing the spices so I just dump in the pot. Did the same with the mesh.
JAS_OH1
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I never thought about cooking times, it just seems like smaller beans are the right beans, navy beans/haricot beans usually. I guess great Northern aren't that much bigger.I like to use smaller beans for baked beans since they cook faster.
JAS_OH1
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My grandma (who was from Louisiana before she moved to SE Texas) always just left the mesh on, as did my parents/aunts/uncles/cousins, so I did the same.
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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It actually sounds like quite a nice blend!
I can just about go along with the boiling a prawn for 60 seconds but the instruction to leave it on the hot water for 15-20 mins - sacrilege
I can just about go along with the boiling a prawn for 60 seconds but the instruction to leave it on the hot water for 15-20 mins - sacrilege
Barriehie
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Sounds like a corp. CYA attempt on the directions for avoiding a lawsuit for people eating undercooked seafood...It actually sounds like quite a nice blend!
I can just about go along with the boiling a prawn for 60 seconds but the instruction to leave it on the hot water for 15-20 mins - sacrilege
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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Ah yes the received wisdom thing, cook it to death or risk food poisoning!