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Posted on 05/07/2009 12:27:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
1/2 cup lemon juice
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon honey
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons minced fresh herbs—parsley, mint, thyme and/or tarragon
1/4 teaspoon salt
Pinch of freshly ground pepper
Kabobs
12 frozen katydids, locusts, or other suitably sized Orthoptera, thawed 1 red pepper, cut into 1/2-inch chunks
1 small yellow onion, cut into 8 wedges
Mix all ingredients for the marinade in a nonreactive baking dish. Add the Orthoptera, cover, and marinate overnight.
When ready to cook, remove the insects from the marinade. Pat them dry, for ease of handling. Assemble each kabob, alternately skewering the insects, red pepper, and onion wedges to create a visually interesting lineup.
Brush the grill lightly with olive oil. Cook the kabobs two or three inches above the fire, turning them every two or three minutes and basting them with additional olive oil as required. The exact cooking time will vary, depending on the kind of grill and types of insects used; however, the kabobs should cook for no longer than 8 or 9 minutes.
Note: Holding in Flavor (and Keeping Bodily Fluids Where They Belong)
Pierce the thorax and abdomen of a large-bodied edible insect with the tines of a pickle server or any small fork—a procedure easiest to perform while the insect's body is still frozen. This will allow the marinade to enter the insect, imparting its flavors while working away at the chitin from the inside. The holes don't have to be large or deep. In fact, smaller punctures are less likely to damage organ meats or permit the insect's precious bodily fluids to drain out.
Enjoy.
I know what you meant, I just couldn't resist ; )
It's estimated that the average human eats one pound (half a kilogram) of insects each year unintentionally," says Lisa Monachelli, director of youth and family programs at New Canaan Nature Center in Connecticut. For example, chocolate can have up to 60 insect fragments per 100 grams, tomato sauce can contain 30 fly eggs per 100 grams, and peanut butter can have 30 insect fragments per 100 grams (3.5 ounces), according to the FDA.
Now you can really hurl....
I’d been told about your fun facts a few months ago when I found a bunch of moths in my granola.
I needed the protein, I guess.
Didn't shock my fieldwork companion one iota either.
Didn't shock my fieldwork companion one iota either.
Maybe the gnat did have an effect. I just double-posted.
I don’t even bother to pull the sand vein out of shrimp. A little crunchy is fine with me.
I was eating salad at a Sizzler steakhouse in Dallas about 20 years ago. A black beetle the size of a June bug crawled out from under a lettuce leaf. At least I didn’t find half a beetle.
Gnats aren’t bad unless they fly straight into your throat and choke you, makes you want to barf when that happens!
Worst dining experience I have had lately was at a T.G.I. Fridays just outside Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven.
My family and I left with the uneaten meals still on the table.
Never go to another one.
lofl!
Paging Samuel L. Jackson...
Oh I’m sorry, the snake head was supposed to go in the OTHER dish!
Similar experience with Subway. I brought home a foot long tuna sub and opened half of it to add my own tomatoes, there was a long black hair on it. I picked it off and ate that half of the sandwich, opened the second half and a black bug came crawling out. I sorta lost my appetite for the second half.
“Gnats aren’t bad unless they fly straight into your throat” -—> A news reporter catches flies fly in his mouth during a story. Foul language alert. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUS6nKpddec
I can't even imagine how awful that was for this man. I would have thrown up. :o)
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