I have decided to start eating bugs. Here is a great recipe for cricket cookies. Try it...you will like it! Have a tooth pick handy as their hind legs do get stuck in your teeth. I am looking for recipies using worms. If anyone has any please let me know. I am looking for the recipe that uses deep crispy fried earth worms as the noodles for chop suey.

Chocolate Chirpie Chip Cookies
Ingredients:
2 1/4 cup flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
1 12-ounce chocolate chips
1 cup chopped nuts
1/2 cup dry-roasted crickets
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375. In small bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt; set aside. In large bowl, combine butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla; beat until creamy. Beat in eggs. Gradually add flour mixture and insects, mix well. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop by rounded measuring teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes.

dmatos

Where, pray tell, does one obtain the required 1/2 cup dry-roasted crickets?

magprob

That's the fun part. You go hunting! Pull the grass back along the fence, under stuff in the yard...they're every where! They taste great roasted.

valinors_sorrow

grooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooss MAGGIE!!!

You really are a poophead. You have, in a single post, put me off every cookie known to man for a while now. Gawd.
Worse yet, I am probably gonna have cricket nightmares now too.

dmatos

With the amount of cosmetic pesticide use in my town, I'd be reluctant to chow down on any insects I found in my backyard. *sigh*

Waiting eagerly for the day when a cosmetic pesticide ban is actually enacted in my municipality. A few dandilions never hurt anyone. A few aromatic esters have.

magprob

Val, dmatos, you both need to toughen up a bit. Go out in the yard, pluck up a big juicy worm and slurp it down like a bit of pasta. They are yummy!

binx44

i hear they are quite nutritious... i do know you can get crickets very cheap at pet stores that have not been around any pesticides.... its not my cup of tea eating bugs but hey to each his own.... hope you enjoy your tasty critter cookies

dmatos

Oh, yeah! Totally forgot about the pet stores! They're fodder for lizards there, but safe for human consumption as well.

binx44

yep. i get them there for my sisters lizard atleast once a week they are nice and cheap if i didnt mention that

have a good one

Thomas1970

Not sure about crickets, but grasshoppers can harbor tapeworms, so don't eat them raw unless you first remove the digestive tract. That's the theory anyhow. You don't truly expect me to test this. Pet store insects should be parasite free. Heck, I make people sick enough every time I order spicy octopus. Just a friendly bit of advice from the resident naturalist.