Cicada cocktail anyone?

[bluemingidiot]

The winged, black insects are classified in “broods” according to when they emerge from underground and raise hell. This spring, we’ll be hearing from millions of Brood Xers — one of largest broods in the US — who will likely be surfacing in 15 states: Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, along with Washington, DC.



“Boiled, they’re going to taste a lot like shrimp,” said University of Maryland entomologist Mike Raupp, who penned the creepy-crawly cookbook “Cicada-Licious” after Brood X’s infestation in 2004.

There are no new creatures that will become a part of my diet.  In whatever time I have left I am sticking with the classics: cheeseburgers, chicken and dressing, chicken and dumplings, chicken fried steaks, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, biscuits, gravy, fried okra, enchiladas, guacamole, beans, rice, Mongolian barbeque, Texas barbequed ribs, potato salad, shrimp, scallops, oatmeal cookies, waffles, German chocolate cake, and homemade ice cream.

Like what person on their death bed ever said I wish I had had one more boiled cicada?

[Woodpecker]

Your last sentence is too funny.....count me out, too!😝

[bluemingidiot]

Cicada Recipes: Bugs Are Low-Carb, Gluten-Free Food

www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/5/130515-cicadas-recipes-food-cooking-bugs-nation-animals/#:~:text=Roast%20for%20approximately%2015%2D20,F%20(113%C2%B0C).

Bon appetit!

[bluemingidiot]

A Maryland candy company is selling chocolate covered cicadas to celebrate the emergence of the noisy insects that have spent the last 17 years underground.

Chouquette Chocolates is selling the cicadas -- dipped in either milk or dark chocolate -- online, but it also posted the recipe on its Facebook page for brave chefs looking for something to do with the bugs

[Woodpecker]

Yuck again!!!! They're not here yet...think they believe NY is too much of a mess right now they want to stay underground here

[bluemingidiot]

I believe that cicadas avoid the New York City Metropolitan area because it is too noisy.

[Woodpecker]

So who’s hearing the cicadas??? They’re numerous cicadas, along with the crickets here on Long Island. I recorded their nighttime sounds last night….hey I may never hear them after this year… I’d be 90 in 17 years. Only God knows if I’ll be here or be able to even hear them if I am.

[hobbitlady]

Woodpecker,I'm hearing them here in Oregon but I hear some every year. This year they are mixed nicely with the crickets and are not overwhelming. We had a huge hatch about 3 years ago. I could not Believe the twilight/evening loud siren going on all around the house,and am sure glad it's not usually like that! I never see them alive;but I never went out with a flashlight looking. DH and I laugh over the molts/shells the new adults emerge from though.When the sun hits one "just right" on the side of a tree or branch it looks like an orange Christmas bulb lit up!We just "admired" one yesterday while out playing with the dog. Another time 30 of them were left on the side of the shop and it looked like mini aliens had landed.

[susannah]

I read that we're too far north to experience their song - and that seems to be the case, because I haven't heard any. Last week we were in the southern part of the state, and dh and I might have heard them. Or it might have been crickets. I have nothing to judge by. We do have very loud bullfrogs, though so there's that.

Oh, and I might try a boiled cicada, if I had the chance. I've eaten a lot of things people consider strange. But the idea of chocolate covered cicadas leave me cold. That would be a hard pass.