Posted on 02/24/2022 1:53:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
I have never had them, but would love to try them. But I am thinking they couldn’t be any worse than slimy Okra? lol
Sounds like a job for dehydrating into fruit snacks. Mash em and spread it out to dry. :)
“I have never had them, but would love to try them. But I am thinking they couldn’t be any worse than slimy Okra? lol”
Hard to imagine anything worse than slimy, hairy okra. As a kid I puked when my folks forced it on me. They didn’t try a second time LOL.
In the fall we pick wild mushrooms along with other varieties of wild greens. If you know what you're doing you can safely pick and enjoy some very tasty wild foods. Go with a pro before going alone - take your time to learn what's in your neck of the woods and NEVER eat ANYTHING you're not 100% sure is safe to eat.
If the word gets out that you and your family are bug eaters, the govey will ship you off to the projects to clean it up!
Personally, I draw the line a bit short of 100%. It makes life more interesting that way.
I saw a local TV documentary a a few years ago about the old timers who basically live off the land here in east Tennessee. One guy was showing how he prepared and ate kudzu. If you can do that, you’ll never starve. Now, for the life of me, I can’t find that documentary.
Filet Mignon, Ribeyes, Center-Cut Rib Roast, Crabcakes, Smoked Salmon, Flounder etc etc etc etc... no freaking insects for me!
Ain’t that the truth!!!!! We got more Kudzu than even Japan, it’s homeland...
I don’t mind them sliced, breaded, and fried to a crisp. Lol
Time to break out the old Euell Gibbons “Stalking the wild (whatever) books.”
“Grapenuts cereal reminds me of wild hickory nuts!”
Or my old WILDWOOD WISDOM book by Elsworh Jaeger along with SNARES AND TRAPPING books.
Maybe some of those survivalist books from the 1980s! There are all over the place at second hand stores on line.
How to Stay Alive In the Woods by Brad Angier, or his FIVE ACRES AND SECURITY.
Back about 40 years ago I read that if you wanted to make it as an outdoor author you needed to write a outdoor survival guide as the market then was HOT!
I also found that Brad Angier, who wrote many outdoor survival books, was actually living in a condo in Los Angeles and not on the Peace River in Canada that he wrote so much about.
Okra can definitely be slimy, but breaded and fried or pickled ain’t half bad! Plus, it’s pretty good with stewed tomatoes or in Brunswick stew!
How about Tree Rats!
I go down to the nearest Family Dollar store to scoop up mice and rats. I only go for the fresh ones and leave the old disgusting ones for the buzzards. Occasionally you can get a live one if you are quick.
Search in the woods for those delicious Morel mushrooms. Fry lightly in butter and eat with a pinch of salt. Very tasty!
Sour oranges make a good marinade base for meat.
They come into season in October around St. Louis, and. they are very good there, like vanilla custard.
The ones I had were soft but not slimy. I ate mine while they were still green on the outside, though. The seeds were large but there was still as much fruit as you would get from an apple, because the pawpaws are larger than apples, 5 to 6 inches in length, as big as an average russet baking potato. The seeds were less than half of the total fruit, sometimes only a third. I still prefer the flavor of big bottomless wild persimmons to pawpaw, but pawpaw would probably be pretty good as a frozen treat.
At the Orchard Hills golf and country club where I was a member, there were Fig trees and plum trees galore. The golf course was carved out of a large orchard. In season, each fig tree would be loaded with low hanging fruit. Those were green outside and pink-red inside, and the most delicious figs I have ever tasted. I always filled my golf bag with figs every time my foursome passed by the fig trees. The plums usually had worms so I rarely indulged. And of course Southern WA state has black berries galore. We munched on those plenty, just avoiding the ones close to the ground for obvious reason haha. Those could taste a bit salty LOL
Cats and snakes do very well on rats and rodents.
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