Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: twysted1 on May 31, 2006, 14:19
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i have been looking at the wealth of worms in my plot (millions), and i got to thinking that they actually look quite tasty. my question is does anybody have any olde worlde recipies for earth worms. i'm sure this must seem strange to some but hey snails are good eating and worms appeal more to me than a lot of shell fish thats about. i am going to collect some worms and keep them in some bran for a few days to get the grit out and then i shall try the recipies i hope you will suggest. i am also going to feed it to my flatmates without them knowing until they have finished.
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thats a pretty twysted thing to do to your mates man, funny though.
I'd chop them up small and make a kind of worm bolognaise type thing, I bet the texture's quite prawny. You could also dry them, crush and add to wholemeal bread rolls.
I've seen a survivalism recipe for worms in wood pigeon omlet (I'm guessing about the wood pigeon but was some sort of wild bird.) The worms were just squeezed to get the soil out.
I think using ant pupe as a kind of wild food might taste better but I have to admit, I've never eaten worm. :)
Nobody likes me, everybody hates me......
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How about tasty Banana Worm Bread? (http://www.ent.iastate.edu/misc/insectsasfood/wormbread.html) :D
Not sure how you'd go about dry roasting the worms mind.
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fantastic link thankyou
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the dry roasted bit i can manage ok.
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i decided to do a google and look at this it's great.
worm recipes (http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/jackhulland/classes/colberg/worms/recipes/index.html)
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:lol: Somehow I don't think those school children meant for their recipes to actually be used and eaten! :shock: :D
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no but it is fun
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I didn't know you were a Klingon - they love live Gak
lTwysted jaq law' John jaq puS as they say on Kronos
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actually john i'm sorry to contradict but i am BORG.
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I think worms do a great job in the soil, I can't imagine why anyone would want to eat them? unless of course you're doing a bush tucker trial.
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Pal of mine, way back when, was in the SAS. He told me that you can eat nearly anything that is alive and when it hits the stomach, it's protein.
The proviso was to avoid venemous creatures unless you could remove the bit with the poison. Like the snake's head.
I watched an episode of CSI New York where they had a posh restaraunt serving centipedes and deep fried big spiders. YUCK YUCK YUCK
I know our resident chef, Granny Dumplin, has eaten Guinea Pig in south America and honey ants.
French people eat frog's legs and snails (probably slugs as well)
Some African peoples eat insects and view eating fish as we view eating insects.
I reckon there are some very strange people out there, Ladybird, except for thee and me. And even thee's a little queer at times :)
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Hey, I'm interested in eating insects, prawns are like insects if you think about it. I haven't tried yet but am going to eat ant larve, they are supposed to taste like prawn.
I love the taste of Frogs Legs too but I don't eat them now since I found out how cruelly they are butchered. Snails are nice, I had them in France deep fried in bacon fat, lovely, my wife likes them too.
I think the majority of people, you know the ones who don't grow their own food, think milk comes from cartons and don't even know how to cook with raw ingredients, they are the strange ones. Normalcy is a minority passtime. :D
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Jake, you're a braver man than me :)
I know where my food comes from, but that doesn't mean I'.m going to eat snails. Early conditioning or something.
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I agree Jake that normalcy is a minority pastime...just ask my children!! .... but eating insects??? purleeze
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Hugh fearnly ate woodlice in his program cook on the wild side, the idea was that they are a land based prawny type thing, ( he's my hero). :oops:
I saw a program about marine training, and worm casserole was one of the things they had to make and eat :shock:
The british marines can eat all animals appart from rats, they arn't alloud to eat them because of the possibility of disease, but they can eat any thing else.
Has anyone eaten winkles or welks, they are just sea snails, MMMMMM, I love em
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Has anyone eaten winkles or whelks, they are just sea snails, MMMMMM, I love em
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Here in Scotland, what I grew up calling winkles in Norfolk are called whelks, whereas what I would have called whelks are dog whelks. Have gone picking them across the river at Tayport. You sometimes get people selling them round the pubs in bags. And the Scottish prawn trawler boats don't catch prawns, they catch langoustines.
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Has anyone eaten winkles or whelks, they are just sea snails, MMMMMM, I love em
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Here in Scotland, what I grew up calling winkles in Norfolk are called whelks, whereas what I would have called whelks are dog whelks. Have gone picking them across the river at Tayport. You sometimes get people selling them round the pubs in bags. And the Scottish prawn trawler boats don't catch prawns, they catch langoustines.
I collected my own mussels from a beach in cornwall once, they were good. very small but very sweet. Worry about polluted water though but it looked ok at the time and we weren't ill.
I hadn't seen that Hugh Fernley thing where he eats woodlice. Sounds horrid. It was Ray Mears who I saw eat ant larve and I promise it looked very good. He made his sound recordist try some and he looked like he enjoyed it too.
Oh lets not forget the beetles in Indiana Jones. Man I would not fancy that.
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If Ray Mears told me to eat something, ( I Would).
Would you argue with Ray ?
He would probarbly kill you and eat you as well, he would cook you in some wierd and wonderful way. :lol: :lol:
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i have liked all the sugestions so far, especially ant larvea. i will eat anything me so long as it's had it's bum wiped.
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I collected my own mussels from a beach in cornwall once, they were good. very small but very sweet.
This month's Field says that you must not collect mussels that are less than two inches long.
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I collected my own mussels from a beach in cornwall once, they were good. very small but very sweet.
This month's Field says that you must not collect mussels that are less than two inches long.
Thats terrible. :( I feel guilty now and wont do it again.
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I think Ray would probably make a birch bark canoe...
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Worms? easy -
collect them in a container they cant get out of, with NO vegatable matter, for a few days to allow them to 'clear out', then ...
dry them, preferably on a hot flat stone from the fire (dont use porous stone it'l explose in the fire if its wet). Once dried out, grind them up.
Worms are not much use as a main food. Use the dried worms as a thickener, rather like cornflour, in soups and sauces.
I have eaten them like this, but unfortunately another time we didnt have any sauce ingredients to go with the squirrel.
There is really very little on this planet that cant be eaten (unless its mineral). What we generally eat is what is easiest, tastiest and most abundent. The important thing is to make sure what you eat wont make you ill. A series of simple tests carried out over a few hours can work that out.
Martin
(incidentally, it was 'squirel au van')
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(incidentally, it was 'squirel au van')
Was it good? Was it anything like rabbit?
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Hmmm, now i come to think about it, it was a bit mediochre (is that how you spell it?), at the time it tasted absolutely fantastic. Strangely, it was a bit like chicken! Really i'd say a bit more rabbity though.
It was one of those moments of necessity. We had just been turfed off the back of a 4 tonne truck somewhere near Tal-y-bont, at the start of a survival exercise. We had no food or supplies other than a survival kit, enough to get a fire going (that was the idea of course, not much of a survival course if we could take tins of beans and a bottle of pinot grigio)
As we got off the truck, i spotted something a bit fresh looking under it. The daft driver had mowed this poor squirrel down. Well, fresh meat...
If i'd got spotted i'd have failed the course before i even got to the start line!
Martin
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Couldn't you have just visited the pub at Tal-y-bont to refuel or is this strictly not allowed?
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Definately not allowed. Unless i wanted to end up at a lower rank than i started!
The pub was visited after the exercise though!
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Eating slugs is probably a bad idea, there have been cases of slug munchers contracting meningitis:
Wikipedia Slugs Entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slugs)
Direct link to article:
Man contracts meningitis from eating slugs (http://abc.net.au/science/news/health/HealthRepublish_969551.htm)
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Interesting. I heard of this with people eating Giant African Land Snails as it's a concern for those people who keep G.A.L.S.s as pets. Most people don't eat their pets though :lol:
Ah and it's only a concern if you don't cook them well which I thought I had read similar about G.A.L.S.s
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I still don't fancy slugs to eat though. Slug kebabs anyone!? :lol: I think you would need to be pretty deperate? I don't think even good 'ol Ray Mears has eaten slugs.... could be wrong... I remember my old Jack Russel trying to eat a slug when she was a pup, the slug won..... :?
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No worse than snails, I imagine, though I've not ate either. Gordon Ramsey has an interesting method of "detoxing" garden snails so you can eat them.
Of course, living in a posh area, now I can't find any decent large snails. Coincidence? :lol:
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i have two ferrets who love to eat slugs. but only the small ones they never bother with the larger ones. maybe the smaller ones are more sweet tasting? :lol:
i can eat just about anything but you have to draw a line some where!
you must let us know when you have your first taste of worm though.
in my teenage years i was in the air force cadets and on one of our camps we had chopped worms in baked beans. i gave it a miss but all the boys eat it. :shock:
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i have two ferrets who love to eat slugs. but only the small ones they never bother with the larger ones. maybe the smaller ones are more sweet tasting? :lol:
Thats good to know, my brother is getting some ferrets this week (he hopes) I'd rather something got some benefit from the evil little blighters.
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NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED . gather em then strip em of soil, as ramsey would say , butter hot pan, garlic wild ,(jack by the hedge)frighten! just to the point of death ! infuse ( throw em in)! Watch em walk.squiggle a bit Dead eat em !yum yum! . Gritty not on our main menu
but a million badgers can't be wrong!!!! Try it out . Bet yer won't. GO ON ! WIMPS.
I GET MINE BY FLASHLIGHT ON A WET NIGHT on the grass( just saying eat me!) then I go fishing . not really for the beginner but they are 98% protein. Dare you.
Trapper
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I can think of better ways to cook a ferret!
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Reading about the Dig for Victory campaign today where people were encouraged to eat things from the wild. Delicacies such as Crow Pie and Squirrel Tail soup.No reference to worms though.
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I've just finished reading Tony Robinson's Worst jobs in history book and I'm sure there is a recipe in it for worm stew. The book is at work at the moment, If I remember I'll have a look tomorrow.
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Thats right,
It was an old wisewoman remedy, i think for chest problems. I saw the episode on telly. She didnt season it much though, so old baldrick there was none to chuffed by the flavour. The origins of the witches 'broomstick' are an eye opener (would have been if there were splinters!), but make perfect medical sense.
Great series that, i like those sort of programs that get right down to the real grit of history, Mark Williams Industrial Revelations is another good one.
Tony Robinsons series has him 'fulling' cloth, notice the similarities of how that was done and how we use 'organic accelerant' on the compost!!!
Martin
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eaten everything actually including rats and im ex marine . worms collect them up and put in a bag or pocket with some grass for them to crawl through, pick the tip leaves from nettles any time of year they are the sweetest and add to a small amount of water !/2 pint boiling .boil for 2 mins . take of the heat add worms whole the more you add the better the soup. the great big ones you find on the grass in summer are the best add a little salt or gravy browing if you have it , put back on heat and bring back to boil , then eat yumy yum
squirrel recipes can be found all over the net ,best i find is just to boil them with veggies .1/2 a dozen makes a great dinner and they taste gamey like well hung chicken. when eating any wild foods ,, follow one rule before any others , " if in doubt leave it out " you can get books and courses on eating from the wild , before you start i suggest you use these . oh and brown rat tastes like rabbit ,very tasty indeed black rats are found to carry the most germs etc