roasting grasshoppers?

[pitdog]

Grasshopper Taco's:

1/2 lb - Grasshoppers
2 - cloves garlic, minced
1 - Lemon
Salt
2 - ripe avocados, mashed
6 - tortillas { corn or flour }

> Roast medium sized grasshoppers for 10 minutes in 350 degree oven.
Toss with garlic, juice from 1 lemon, & salt to taste.
Spread mashed avocados on tortilla. Sprinkle on grasshoppers to taste

 

[Keith_H]

I remember watching daily planet on how land will yield much more grasshopper meat than cow, sheep etc meat. They are high in protein (I think it was 45%)

 

[AeroNautiCal]

 

[PayetteRucker]

I lived on grasshoppers for a while, the green ones taste like lettuce-crunchy and watery. I never bothered to cook them, just rip the heads and legs off and down the hatch they go

 

[lukus]

Several years ago my aunt bought my uncle a "bug" cookbook. He stalked around the garden all year catching different bugs and trying them out. Out of all the different bugs he tried, he liked grasshoppers the best. He liked them fried in a skillet. Said the trick to cook them right was to sort them by size so they cook evenly. They would turn a reddish brown when cooked right.

A few years ago we had a freakin plague of grasshoppers. I used to catch the grasshoppers to keep them out of my vegatable garden. I wasn't eating them though, I would throw them in the refrigerator and feed the bass in the stock tank. The best way to catch a bunch of grasshoppers was at night while wearing a headlamp. They're asleep and relatively easy to pick off the plants. For storage, you just cut an X in a butter tub (or cheap tupperware) and push them through. You sqeeze the base of their big legs and they'll release like a lizards tail, just pop right off. After awhile I got pretty fast: pick, squeeze the legs, and push them into the butter tub. 15 or 20 minutes outside after dark and I'd have a butter tub full of them. The bass loved them.

 

[CWL]

I've eaten them in Asia where they were a traditional source of protein for the peasantry. They are usually caught in gauze nets, especially when they swarm.

The traditional method is to dry 'roast' them like peanuts in a hot wok. Some add them to dishes like any other meat, but I've only eaten them as a snack. I also did eat rice cooked in a bamboo tube with some sort of meat paste that I was later informed to be locust.

 

[stingray4540]

Maybe it's just me, but skinnyjoe's posts seem a little bit trollish. Or he is just having fun and baiting the "crazy" survival group?

Or, maybe it is a joke, and everyone knows it and is playing along, and I just missed it?

Anyways, just seems to me he's baiting you guys, your falling for it, and he is sitting back snickering at you guys...

I could be wrong, but that is the vibe I got from his 2 posts.

 

[CWL]

Maybe it's just me, but skinnyjoe's posts seem a little bit trollish. Or he is just having fun and baiting the "crazy" survival group?

Doesn't matter since the replies are legit and may actually help inform others. Skinny Joe is an X-ray tech, maybe he's been standing too close to the X-Ray machine without his tinfoil hat in place.

 

[Bushman5]

Maybe it's just me, but skinnyjoe's posts seem a little bit trollish. Or he is just having fun and baiting the "crazy" survival group?

Or, maybe it is a joke, and everyone knows it and is playing along, and I just missed it?

Anyways, just seems to me he's baiting you guys, your falling for it, and he is sitting back snickering at you guys...

I could be wrong, but that is the vibe I got from his 2 posts.

Nothing trollish about asking for methods on utilizing a viable and readily available source of of high protein food both for a survival situation, or for everyday cuisine.

 

[stingray4540]

Nothing trollish about asking for methods on utilizing a viable and readily available source of of high protein food both for a survival situation, or for everyday cuisine.

Oh, no, I agree with you 100%. It's just the particular questions he asked and how he asked them, that kinda made me raise an eyebrow.
Maybe he is being serious, it was just my observation.

 

[Andrew Colglazier]

It's too bad photobucket is down for me. I'd show y'all what some TX sized grasshoppers look like. Four of these guys and you'd have a family buffet!

You have to watch it when catching them, though. If you aren't careful, they'll end up eating you! (No kidding, they really do bite!)

Andy

 

[PayetteRucker]

It's too bad photobucket is down for me. I'd show y'all what some TX sized grasshoppers look like. Four of these guys and you'd have a family buffet!

You have to watch it when catching them, though. If you aren't careful, they'll end up eating you! (No kidding, they really do bite!)

Andy

I'll vouch for that, but after living in San Antonio and Houston and hiking thrugh NW Tx, I can say they are bigger here in Idaho.

 

[udtjim]

I have never been hungry enough to eat any kind of bug, Don't expect to ever be. Frog legs and rattle snakes? Yes Bugs NO.

 

[Normark]

Hey Esav

No, grasshopper tastes like ants.
Dinosaur tastes like chicken.

LMAO...

That's Great... LOL

BTW

A Great way to catch them is to lay a fuzzy blanket on the ground and then start a big circle towards the blanket..

Once they jump onto the blanket, Natures Velcro goes into effect and they get stuck to the blanket...

ttyle

Eric
O/ST