Various garden bug recipes for you kids enjoyment.
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Dandelion Preserves
1 3/4 cups dandelion flowers
2 lemons
4cups sugar
Wash the dandelion flowers thoroughly and leave in water about 24 hours.
Drain and rinse with fresh water.
Cut lemons making half circles (don't peel them!)
Add dandelions and lemons in a pot with 4cups of boiling water. Boil for 15 minutes.
Strain and add sugar.
Continue boiling until the preserves becomes a thick honey colored syrup.
Enjoy some delicious dandelion preserves on homemade bread!
GARLIC BUTTER FRIED GRASSHOPPERS
Ingredients:
1/4 cup butter
6 cloves garlic
1 cup cleaned insects Directions:
Melt butter in frying pan. Reduce heat. Saute garlic in butter for 5 minutes. Add insects. Continue sauteing for 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
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DRY ROASTED GRASSHOPPERS
Directions:
Spread fresh, frozen and cleaned insects on paper towels on a cookie sheet. Bake at 200 degrees for 1-2 hours until desired state of dryness is reached. Check state of dryness by attempting to crush insect with spoon.
ROOTWORM BEETLE DIP
Ingredients:
2 c. low fat cottage cheese
1 1/2 tsp. lemon juice
2 tbsp. skim milk
1/2 c. reduced calorie mayonnaise
1 tbsp. parsley, chopped
1 tbsp. onion, chopped
1 1/2 tsp. dill weed
1 1/2 tsp. beau monde
1 c. dry-roasted root worm bettles Directions:
Blend first 3 ingredients. Add remaining ingredients mix and chill.
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SLUG FRITTERS
Ingredients:
10 freshly slaughtered slugs
(cleaned of all outer mucous)
1/2 c. of cornmeal
1/2 c. of high protein flour
3 eggs
2 egg yolks
1/4 tbsp. of butter
4 tsp. of sour cream Directions:
Chop slugs into fine mince, then beat the eggs and egg yolks with the heavy cream. Sift the dry ingredients and then cut 2 tsp. of butter into that mixture. Add the egg and cream mixture to the dry ingredients and whip with a whisk vigorously for one to two minutes. Melt one tbsp. of butter in a saute pan and pour the batter into 2 1/2 inch cake in two batches. Serve warm with a dollop of sour cream.
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Snacks
INSECT CRUNCH
Ingredients:
1/2 c. butter
1/2 c. honey
big bowl of popcorn
1 c. roasted insects
(crickets, grasshoppers, bees, ants) Directions:
Slowly heat butter and honey, mix well. Mix the insects with the popcorn and pour in the butter/honey mixture and stir well. Spread this out on a cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Cut into small pieces and serve.
BUG BLOX
POP-MOTH
Main Courses
LOCUST BISQUE
FRIED GREEN TOMATO HORNWORMS
MEALWORM FRIED RICE
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NATURAL TREAT (EARTHWORMS)
Ingredients:
1 1/2 lbs Earthworms
1/2 lg onion chopped
1/4 c. Chicken bouillon
1 c. Sour cream
3 tbsp. butter
1/2 c. mushrooms
whole wheat flour
Directions:
Thoroughly wash and flush the earth worms before using them.
To flush, boil the worms three times then bake them in the oven
at 350 for 15 minutes. Cover the worms with the flour and roll
them in butter. Add bouillon and simmer for
thirty minutes, stirring occasionally. Fry onions and mushrooms
separately in butter. Add both to the earthworms. Mix in
sour cream. Serve over rice or chow mien noodles.
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Chocolate Covered Grasshoppers
1 bar baker's chocolate
12 grasshoppers
Heat the baker's chocolate to melting in a double boiler.
Pour chocolate into a mold. Fill halfway with chocolate,
then add grasshoppers, pour the rest of the way up in the
mold. There will be a great surprise in every bite!
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GRASSHOPPER GOULASH
OAXACA ENCHILADAS
KUMBA
GRASSHOPPER GUMBO
SPIDER SALAD
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OAXACA ENCHILADAS
Ingredients:
About 999 grasshoppers
1/2 cup chili sauce
a pinch of salt
1 garlic
1 red onion
1 lemon
1 cup guacamole
6 corn tortillas
Directions:
Soak the grasshoppers in clean water for 24 hours. Boil them, let dry. Fry in a pan with garlic, onion, salt, and lemon. Roll up in tortillas with chili sauce and guacamole.
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Corn Bread Muffins
INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup soft butter
2 eggs
1/4 cup honey
2/3 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup cornmeal
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup milk
7 1/2 ounces (3/4 of 10 ounce package) frozen corn, thawed out
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a 12 muffin tin.
Use a large bowl to mix together butter, sugar, honey, eggs and salt. Stir in flour, cornmeal and baking powder; mix thoroughly. Pour in milk and corn and mix.
Pour or spoon batter into the prepared muffin tin.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean. Be sure to preheat oven.
Makes 12
If you cut the earthworms from the Natural Treat Recipe into lengths of 2" to 2 1/2"
you can add them to your hot buttered corn muffin.
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