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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!!?
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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...... ;-)
I believe that you dehydrated them
We burned them with gASOLINE
We burned them with gASOLINE
The jaybirds in my part of Texas feasted on the cicadas and katydids. Their death cries are horrible.
Like you, I think I confused cicadas with katydids.
Bald peanuts is like salty gooey ***
LMAO
Try the fermented Greenland shark. You won’t crave the boiled peanuts but you will prefer them.
I am real sorry but I don’t think even bacon will make a bug taste better.
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.)
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.
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.
Winter cicadas?
Ours are dead heat summer horror movie version
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
I do not like green bugs and spam, I do not like them Sam I am.
LOL!!
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.
Do you pull off the legs, like you do shrimp?
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