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.

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

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.

Grooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooss MAGGIE!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

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 going to have cricket nightmares now too.

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.

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!

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 ;)

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

Yep. I get them there for my sisters lizard at least once a week they are nice and cheap if I didn't mention that

Have a good one

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. :D

I prefurr the spicy eel. I find octopus quite chewy but so yummy!

I've only had eel sushi, but it was really good. I agree, octopus can be tough to chew, but I enjoy it. Another of my favorite dishes is Plear (Cambodian beef salad). The menu says, "it's an acquired taste", and they tell me I'm one of the only people who ever order it, as the dressing is made from lime juice and anchovies.
I have many odd culinary tastes.

Throw them in chocolate. You will never know the difference. Heck us Canadians use them all the time in cooking.

Cookies, I need cookies. I don't care what kind, or where they came from, I just need energy!!

Please pass the cookies.

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

I hope this helps you. This farm raises all insects and ship them live overnight if you want. Good Luck I just mad my second batch of cookies:)



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I hope this helps you. This farm raises all insects and ship them live overnight if you want. Good Luck I just mad my second batch of cookies





By Mail:
Fluker Farms Customer Care
1333 Plantation Ave
Port Allen, La. 70767-4087
By Phone:
Local (225) 343-7035
Toll Free (800) 735-8537
By Fax:
(225) 336-0671

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.

One thing you could have added is Crickets should be placed into a plastic baggie. Freeze them for a couple of hours to kill them. Wash in a small collander and place on paper towels on a cookie sheet in oven at 200 degrees for 2 hours to dry roast.

I'll stick with peanut butter, regular chocolate chip, oatmeal, etc,:D

When your husband is an exterminator, there are just some things you don't want to think about asking him to bring home for dinner. His victims are are very high on that list. :(

However, I did do a quick search and found a recipe for Mealworm Fried Rice. The site also has a lot of other very strange recipes covering a wide variety dishes and ingredients (titles alone are amusing) that I probably shouldn't read before starting dinner.

Mealworm Fried Rice (http://bertc.com/subfive/recipes/mealwormrice.htm)

Ahhh don't be like that Cat, I'm sure he could bring you home all sorts of things to expand your cooking repertoire!

I'm with Dahlia though, regular chocolate chip for me please!

Oh my dry-roasted crickets? :(
I like meat, but no bugs

This site has some great meal worm recipes.

FINL Vol. 9, No. 1 Mealworms: Raising Mealworms for Food (http://www.hollowtop.com/finl_html/mealworms.htm)

How do you prepare your crickets pray tell?
I normally buy mine in bulk from pet stores (believe it or not cricket baked goods sell very well. People are so curious to try them.)