Just found this little PDF cicada cookbook and thought I'd share.

http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/pdf/cicada%20recipes.PDF

It's got 15 or so recipes, including appetizers, main dishes, and desserts. They're serious recipes, not jokes.

Some of them sound kind of good:

Shanghai Cicadas
Cicada Stir-Fry
Maryland Cicadas
El Chirper Tacos
Southern Cicada Tartlets
Banana Cicada Bread
Cicada-Rhubarb Pie (yum!)

Nothing about wine or protection, though.

Enjoy!

I would serve Cicadas with some fava beans and a nice chianti. (Insert slurping sounds here).

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Back to back World War Champs.

Id drink a light, but sweet Riesling wine. should off-set any bitterness LOL.

For music, id go with some Kenny G. the ambient but upbeat tunes should set the mood.

For attire, id go with a french blue polo/ beige khaki's and a pair of:

"What wine should be paired with cicadas?"

give your guests a choice.....

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There's nowt so queer as folk

So? Who Wins the Hat!??

Must be some law about having a contest that advertizes a prize and not delivering said prize?

I need to speak with a Lawyer.

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Still Running Against the Wind

What's the word? THUNDERBIRD! What's the price? FIFTY TWICE!

Friends, Romans, Countrymen and Country dogs,

First, an apology to all for the delay in announcing the winners (suffice it to say that I was forced to spend most of the last 3 months assisting some extended family members with various problems, mostly out of state and then trying to get a complex cardiac arrythmia issue straightened out -- I did figure out that those folks who use those V-fib paddles to restore one to a normal sinus rythym think that shocking with a gazillion volts is a hoot - but I digress)

The panel of judges was duly convened: a possum, an armadillo and a skunk on a country road in Cameron Parish -- this august panel of judges spent the better part of two months making a decision while they lay around on said road, not moving very much and talking very little. After much deliberation, the judges announced a 9 -way tie:

Vytoland, rocketdog, Snubbyfan, Rule 3, Shouldazagged, Straightshooter 2, A10, Mc5aw, and Cwspook -- said gentlemen and epicureans are hereby kindly asked to send me a PM with their preferred mailing address so that prizes may be mailed.

Thanks to all who took part -- the judges remain mute on the final deciding criteria but assured me it was a very difficult decision. Hence, the 9-way tie.

All the best,

Bernie

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Gunner, Sabot Up!

THIS WAS RIGGED!!! i hope you all choke on your cicadas!

Hi:
Wine: Keg of Beer with Jim Beam on the side
Dress Attire: Toga
Music: Rap
Weapon: Glock and Taurus

(have fresh donuts for the responding L.E.Os due to noise complaint, plus a stalk of bananas and sack of peanuts in case a certain individual learns that Glocks and Taurus is at the gathering)

[QUOTE=COL Jagdog;137221192]Friends:



Best response gets a "Chien Noir Farms" camo hunting hat
these are much-sought after in this venue - with an embroidered picture of a black dog (a "chien noir") holding a duck ("canard") in his mouth on the front of the hat.

Fixed that for you - - - as they say in Forked Island.
teesur.

Boones Farm strawberry hill for the wine.
Alabama for the music.
Cut off Ts and cut off jeans for the attire.
And a sawed off 12 ga. for the shooting iron!!

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Tom
NRA Pistol Inst

My mixed breed Jack Russell loves them. She sits outside and waits for them to come out of the ground. She believes they are at the peak of flavor at that moment when they are freshest. She prefers them raw - more land sushi than land shrimp. Being a teetotaler she prefers water, but thinks Perrier is good for special occasions.

Seriously, you haven't lived until you have chased be of them around the house. She has slipped in on several occasions with a live one.

Once when my daughter was still in high school she came in with a live one. Sarah had friends over at the time. The bug got loose. To say there was screaming is an understatement. I could not hear for two days. To this day I think Jackie did that on purpose.

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S&WCA 1729

OK Menu:

Appetizers: Toasted cicadas with a horseradish remoulade: Home gown and pickled horseradish, mayo, fresh herbs (basil & oregano) and a few deveined and seeded peppers of choice.

Also, served with a spicy guacamole for dipping.

Main course:: Fried cicadas with Thai Basil.
Fried cicadas mixed with Thai Basil leaves, red chili oil, red curry, shredded carrots, cabbage, green onion, all sauteed together (to A #4 or #5 in spiciness)


White rice

Sweet pickled cucumbers: THINLY sliced cucumbers and red onions, pickled in diluted rice wine vinegar, with ginger and a little sugar or honey, sweetened to taste.

Wine: a good Italian table wine like Riunite, cella or a grappa

Dessert: Hot fudge sundaes made with a good vanilla bean ice cream, hot fudge, whipped cream and sprinkled with toasted cicadas, topped with a cherry!

Forgot:

Dress something out of 1950's or 60's French Indochina-maybe a white suit and fedora al la Sydney Greenstreet. Sidearm: A Colt hammerless in 32 or 380 with a fancy stilleto. A good cigar. Music: Some 1940's torch song. Ceiling fan going in the background with a good cigar. Marlene Dietrich singing, of course. Or maybe Billie Holiday Yeah!! Billie Holiday.

Why, Thank You kind Colonel! I suppose now is not a good time to let you know I bribed the armadillo?

PM on the way!

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Even older, even crankier....

BumWine.com is always helpful.

Arms: Short Bbl. SXS 12ga
Attire: Sleeveless T shirts & cut off jeans
Music: CCR or maybe Doctor Hook
Wine: For "the shrimp of the land" the "wine of the people"=PBR

Best whine IMO would be, "Why are there so many buuuugs?"

I missed the deadline, but it would be homemade dandelion wine for sure!

LOVE it!! I can only hope I'm invitged to the party.

night train...will do the job.