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Cicada recipes: How to cook these once every 17 years delicacies
cleveland.com ^ | Updated Jan 11, 2019 | Joey Morona

Posted on 02/22/2021 8:36:30 PM PST by Kartographer

The 17-year cicadas have started to emerge from their underground homes and, soon, Northeast Ohio will be crawling with literally billions of these bugs.

While snacking on a cicada may not be your idea of a delicious treat, they're high in protein, low-fat, low-carb, gluten-free and, over the course of the next several weeks, will be plentiful and fairly easy to forage. The clock is ticking, though.

Jenna Jadin, an entomologist who wrote "Cicada-Licious," the definitive cicada cookbook in 2004, says the bugs are best to eat shortly after they've hatched, before their exoskeletons have hardened. Early morning is the ideal time to catch them. Cicadas with hardened shells should be boiled before eating. Never forage cicadas that are already dead.

So, how do they taste? Bon Appetit says cicadas are similar to soft-shell crab, "but with subtle overtones of boiled peanuts, the kind only a backroads gas station can really do right."

Holy yum, right!!?

(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...


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To: Kartographer

And you thought they were just bred to flush out weasels. Did I ever tell you about the Great Bavarian Cicada War of 1681? If it weren’t for legions of trained Scheißhunds, German beer would taste a lot different today...... ;-)


21 posted on 02/22/2021 9:11:09 PM PST by Viking2002 (The revolution won't need to be televised. It'll be on your doorstep.)
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To: Larry Lucido

I believe that you dehydrated them


22 posted on 02/22/2021 9:11:51 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
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To: Larry Lucido

We burned them with gASOLINE


23 posted on 02/22/2021 9:12:30 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Larry Lucido

We burned them with gASOLINE


24 posted on 02/22/2021 9:12:30 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Kartographer

The jaybirds in my part of Texas feasted on the cicadas and katydids. Their death cries are horrible.


25 posted on 02/22/2021 9:12:31 PM PST by DeFault User
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To: Larry Lucido

Like you, I think I confused cicadas with katydids.


26 posted on 02/22/2021 9:13:57 PM PST by DeFault User
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To: Kartographer

Bald peanuts is like salty gooey ***


27 posted on 02/22/2021 9:14:40 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Viking2002

LMAO


28 posted on 02/22/2021 9:16:24 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
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To: Viking2002


I believe this is a portrait of a hero of that war Baron Von Orkin
29 posted on 02/22/2021 9:24:00 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
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To: Lurker

Try the fermented Greenland shark. You won’t crave the boiled peanuts but you will prefer them.


30 posted on 02/22/2021 9:26:13 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: CJ Wolf

I am real sorry but I don’t think even bacon will make a bug taste better.


31 posted on 02/22/2021 9:28:35 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: Kartographer

Yes, that is his great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather on his Oma’s side. (I believe there was some Scottish terrier mixed in a few generations back, and he was too besotted with single malt to make much of a Hessian, but nobody’s perfect.)


32 posted on 02/22/2021 9:34:04 PM PST by Viking2002 (The revolution won't need to be televised. It'll be on your doorstep.)
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To: DeFault User

A cicada couldn’t “cry”, they have no vocal parts, the noise they make is with their legs. Last time those things came up I said to myself, “thank God I’ll probably be dead before they appear again”, they totally give me the heebee jeebies, I near wrecked my car on the interstate when one flew in my window and landed on my arm.


33 posted on 02/22/2021 9:34:44 PM PST by Segovia
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To: Larry Lucido
And why is it I remember cicadas EVERY summer in Texas?

Some species are annual which grow for years underground, but some mature and emerge every year. Then some are periodical where almost all come out at the same time.

We have some of the annual ones every year, but this is the big year for the 17 year attack.

It looks like you don't get very many of the 13- or 17-year swarms of them in Texas.

34 posted on 02/22/2021 9:35:31 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: Kartographer

Winter cicadas?

Ours are dead heat summer horror movie version


35 posted on 02/22/2021 9:37:17 PM PST by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG)
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To: cpdiii

Cajuns are America’s best most ardent hunters and can make almost any flesh taste edible or even very good

Raccoon

Possum

Nutria

And so on.....ground hig

Boney fish

One of associates is from Gonzales La

He hunts like a mad man

And cooks all of it

I’d eat cicada

I’ve had insects....usually wok style...not bad


36 posted on 02/22/2021 9:41:15 PM PST by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear; Kartographer

I do not like green bugs and spam, I do not like them Sam I am.


37 posted on 02/22/2021 9:42:07 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: DoodleBob

LOL!!


38 posted on 02/22/2021 9:44:27 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
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To: KarlInOhio; DeFault User; mylife; Kartographer

So if I did see 17-year cicadas in Texas, it was likely around 1986 or 1987 in Dallas (I was only there from 1986 to 1994).

If I did see them, I didn’t card them.


39 posted on 02/22/2021 9:45:50 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Kartographer

Do you pull off the legs, like you do shrimp?


40 posted on 02/22/2021 9:48:24 PM PST by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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