Edamame: the perfect food

[skra75]

I just steamed some for a late dinner. Added some soy butter and a shitload of salt.

I swear to god, it's the perfect food. Delicious and oh-so-good for you.

I just posted a thing about corn and soy on the Political board and got hungry.

[mikizee]

what the hell is it, how do make it, i want some now

[cosmo105]

edamame's yummy shit but don't overdo soy because the phytoestrogen in it will make you grow manboobs and then you'll never leave the house

[monkey]

i <3 <3 <3 edamame. it's the first thing i order at japanese places. :o

but i have never succesfully made my own. i just really dont know how:confused:

[cosmo105]

omg, it's the easiest thing. shit, just buy edamame frozen, put it in boiling water for like 5 minutes and then add salt. or don't. i usually just put a little in the water and then a shake on the beans themselves. seriously, that's all.

[steve-onpoint]

I have some Edamame in the freezer right now. Probably won't prep it till I get back from NYC next weekend. It's goodness. My friend used to pour pepper in the bag after it was steamed. It was a nice touch.

[skra75]

edamame's yummy shit but ... phytoestrogen in it will make you grow manboobs...

:eek: (!) (!) :eek: ohhhh nooooo! jesus holy thanks for the heads up.
*feels own chest in search of manboobs*
nope! none yet! just taught, sexy muscle.
sexy muscle.

[cosmo105]

dun worry, you'd have to be ingesting pretty massive quantities of it every day for it to happen. but it does happen, and i know of several cases.

steaming it is of course better. i usually steam everything, but when i want edamame i want it NOW so i just boils it :o

[HEIRESS]

BOIL FOR NO MORE THAN 2 MINUTES

STEAM FOR LIKE FIVE

[Bob]

hmm maybe i'll have to try this. i'm lazy and hungry and i live near a hippie food co-op.

is it generally expensive? do you just pour the beans into the pot and boil as such, or what? i'm a pret-ty bad cook, you'd be surprised what i can screw up

[Dorothy Wood]

I don't like beans. :(

[HEIRESS]

and you must have coarse salt, its just not the same with grain salt

[HEIRESS]

hmm maybe i'll have to try this. i'm lazy and hungry and i live near a hippie food co-op.

is it generally expensive? do you just pour the beans into the pot and boil as such, or what? i'm a pret-ty bad cook, you'd be surprised what i can screw up

and you don't eat the pod, you just use your teeth to pop the beans out into your mouth

well I guess you could eat the pod but that would just make you an odd bean

[befsquire]

we went out for sushi to celebrate our anniversary tonight, and had some edamame. it's delicious.

i think since everyone in this thread seems to agree that the frozen is good, i'll have bobby put it on the grocery list.

[Bob]

ok, i just bought some at the hippie food store and it's...boring. maybe i'm not cut out for eating soy, or maybe i'm doing something wrong, so give me suggestions.

i followed the instructions on the bag, it said to boil them in water for 3 minutes, then let stand in the hot water (off the heat) for another 2, then to drain and serve. i did that, and i shook a generous amount of seasoned salt on it (i like seasoned salt), and now i'm eating it and it's boring. it's like...hard peas.

what can i do better next time? it only cost like $3.50, so i don't want to give up just yet

[Planetary]

not with all that salt it aint good for you.

[Bob]

also, what's this business about pods? i'm thinking pea-pods, but there's none of that. here's what it looks like

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/8935/beansuf6.jpg

i'm not supposed to pop each individual bean out of its shell or anything, am i?

not with all that salt it aint good for you.

yeah, that's what i'm wondering too. it seems like i'd need to add way more salt for it to be tasty, but that would kind of defeat the purpose of eating soybeans (to be healthy), surely? how much salt am i supposed to use?

it's like eating wet peanuts, kinda

[monkey]

edamame tends to come in a pod. you got them podless.

salt on them is yummy. dont eat them for healthy, eat them for junk food!

[Bob]

oh, ok. i was concerned that i'd been eating pods. they did, however, come in a shell of sorts. like i found that if i squeezed the shell, the bean inside would pop out, and it was a little better in terms of texture, but i didn't really feel like eating the whole plate one bean at a time.

i dunno maybe i undercooked them. and maybe i need to use more salt

[HEIRESS]

its all about the couase sea salt brah

[Bob]

hmm. i used seasoned sea salt. it was sort of a reddish brown, what color is coarse sea salt? maybe i just didn't use enough.

also, how tender is it supposed to be? i followed the instructions on the bag, but it seemed a little tough. is it supposed to be really soft, or?

[The Notorious LOL]

pfft...everyone knows Shrimp is the perfect food.



I capitalized it because I feel it should be a proper noun

[HEIRESS]

hmm. i used seasoned sea salt. it was sort of a reddish brown, what color is coarse sea salt? maybe i just didn't use enough.

also, how tender is it supposed to be? i followed the instructions on the bag, but it seemed a little tough. is it supposed to be really soft, or?

yeah I like seasoned salt too, but to each thing a purpose

coarse salt is just the non-grain variety

and its better in the pod, because by sucking on the pod to get the bean out you get just the right amount of saltyness and the fact that you had to work to get the bean out makes it all the more satisfying!

[Bob]

pfft...everyone knows Shrimp is the perfect food.



I capitalized it because I feel it should be a proper noun

shrimp. is. for. faggots.

[The Notorious LOL]

so in other words you're a fan?

[Bob]

seriously though shrimp is like...it's not even real fish, and fish is pretty gay to begin with when you think about it

[ET]

Catfish is ungay.