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- Bay Area Bug Eating Society (BABES)
San Francisco Entomophagists. Recipes, nutrition information, FAQs, and pictures. - Bert Christensen's Weird & Different Recipes: Locust Bisque
Cream soup recipe. - Bug-Eating
Various articles and links to using insects as food. - Bugfood!
Offers a variety of recipes and links to satisfy anyone's bug-filled food craving. - Cafe Insecta
Offers cooking classes and demonstrations. Includes photographs from several events and three sophisticated recipes featuring crickets. - Descending the Food Chain
An article in New Times, Broward-Palm Beach, Florida. - Dr. Frog's Recipe Page
Includes a 1687 description of a dish of Parcht Locusts, and directions for marinating bee grubs in coconut cream. - The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook
David G. Gordon shows 33 ways to cook grasshoppers, ants, water bugs, spiders, centipedes, and their kin. Buy, look through reviews, or read about the author. - Food Insects Newsletter
How-to articles about harvesting and preparing insects. - Fried Green Tomato Hornworms
Sample recipe from a cookbook by David George Gordon. - Grow-a-Brain: Entomophagy (Insect Eating) Archives
Weblog with links and photographs covering all aspects of eating insects, from recipes to newspaper articles to personal experiences. - Insect Snacks from Around the World
From the University of Kentucky Department of Entomology. - Insects as Food
Information on the current importance and the future potential of insects as a global food resource. - Insects as Human Food
Hosted by Ohio State University. Entomologists, farmers and chefs who are promoting edible insects, a foodstuff better known in academic circles as "Microlivestock." Article, recipes, and nutritional information. - Plutos Recipes
Small collection includes Mealworm Chocolate Chip Cookies and Stir Fried Cricket Curry. - Survival.com - Eating Bugs
Article from Hoods Woods Survival Training Center. - Weird Foods: Bugs
Includes a list of insects and other arthropods eaten in various cuisines, and a few recipes including Banana Worm Bread and Cricket Chip Cookies. - Weird Recipe List
Recipes for odd dishes some including insects. - Woodlouse Recipes
Part of a page developed as a resource for Y13 Biology students. Recipes with pictures of each completed dish. - CNN: University Lures Kids with Chocolate-Covered Crickets
Review of Penn State University's 10th annual Great Insect Fair. (October 6, 2002) - MSU News: If You Like Crawdad Jambalaya, Why Not Cricket Jambalaya?
Review of the Montana State University Enytomology Department's annual "Hopper Fry" event. (January 8, 2000) - Outside Magazine: It's Hard to Eat Just One
Author Ian Frazier waxes poetic about the joys of eating mayflies. (April, 1997)
Random Indian Recipes:-
- Stuffed Bangda
First clean the bangda.remove eyes and tail. Give cuts on stomach both the side. Apply lemon juice and little salt.keep aside for 10 min. In a bowl take red chilly powder,turmeric,ginger paste,tamarind pulp and salt. Mix well and apply this chutney to bangda. fill chutney also in stomach. Keep aside for 20 min. Dip bangda in rice flour and fry in hot oil on mid. flame. Stuffed bangda is ready. - Kheema
First cook kheema in pressure cooker with little water. Make onion paste and chop tomato and coriander leaves. In kadai heat oil and fry onion paste for 2 min. Then add ginger garlic paste and fry for some time. Now add chopped tomato and again fry for 2 min. Add red chilly powder, ... - Mutton Cutlet
Wash kheema and pressure Cook without water,by adding half portion of chopped onion, ginger garlic paste and garam masala powder. In a pan heat 1 cup of oil and add another half portion of ginger garlic paste,onion and green chilly. Fry for a minute and then add the cooked kheema,boiled potatoes green peas,red chilli powder,turmeric powder, garam masala powder, pepper powder,cumin powder,lime juice and salt. Cook on low flame for about 20 min or ... - Balushai
Make the syrup of 2 string consistency and add rose essence and lemon juice. In a plate sieve flour and baking soda together and keep aside. In a big plate take curd,2 tsp sugar and 1&1/2 cup ghee and beat finely for 4-5 min. Now add maida and soda. Knead the dough smoothly. Use curd if necessary.(no water) Make small balls off the whole dough and press them a bit. Make thumb impression in center. Cover with a damp cloth and keep aside for 10 min. Heat ghee in a pan and fry balushai on a ... - Vanila Ice Cream
Take 2 3/4 cup of milk in a pan add sugar and keep boiling. Add chinagrass and cornflour in cold 1/4 cup of milk and mix well. Add in hot milk stir and cook on low flame (cook untill thick). Remove from the heat and allow to cool. Add vanila essence and fresh cream.mix in mixture. Pour the mixture in aluminium tin and keep to set in refrigerator. When it will half set again mix in mixture and keep in refrigerator to set. - Potato Burfi
Boil potato and mash finely. Grate coconut. In a thick bottom pan mix mashed potato,coconut and sugar. Allow to cook on a low flame (appx. 45-50 min). When the mixture bacame thick remove from the gas. Add elaichi powder and mix well. Pour the mixture on greased platform. Roll out the mixture with roll pin to make 1 cm thick. Cut the pieces as shape as you want. Allow to cool. - Bhogichi Bhaji
Peel the carrots and potatoes. Make small pieces of ghevada. Cut potato,brinjal and carrot into pieces. Remove green chana from the pods. Make fine paste of coriander leaves and green chilly. Roast groundnut and sesame and make powder. Now in a pan heat oil and add mustard seeds and cumin seeds. Allow to splutter then add turmeric powder. Add potatoes,carrots,green chana and ghevada. Fry for a min. then add green paste. Cover the pan and allow to ... - Baingan Potato Curry
Make the pieces of baingan,potato and tomato. Chop the onion and coriander leaves finely. In a kadai heat 1 tbsp oil and fry half portion of onion till brown. Then add grated coconut and fry again till light brown on low flame. Keep aside for 10 min then grind in a mixer. In a pan heat 1 tbsp oil and fry onion till transperent. Then add tomato and baingan pieces. Fry for 1 min and add red chilly powder,turmeric powder and garam masala powder. Add 2 cups of water and allow to ... - Satyanarayana Prasad
Clean rava and fry in hot ghee till light brown on slow flame. In another pan mix milk and water and keep to boil. Pour the milk mixture on fried rava. Make pieces of kaju and almond. Chop the banana into small pieces. When rava cook add sugar and cover the pan. Add kismis,kaju,almond and banana pieces. Mix well and cover the pan for 2-3 min. Lastly add elaichi powder. Prasad is ready. - Smoke Chicken
First clean the chicken and apply ginger garlic paste,curd,salt and red colour and keep aside for 1 hour. After one hour in a pan take 2 tbsp oil and fry onion for 4-5 min. Add red chilly powder,turmeric powder and fry for one min. Now pour marinated chicken in pan and allow to cook. When oil started to seperate from the mixture add garam masala powder. Burn koyla on gas. When koyla burn fully put this koyla in ...