The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out

[venta]

For reasons which now escape me, at work yesterday we were talking about eating insects. Someone posted a link to this recipe, for "oatmealworm cookies", made with both oatmeal and mealworms. (NB That link goes to a blog about insect-eating, you have been warned

Comments

[ewx]

Do you have an opinion on the flavor of almonds, in particular, as compared to flavor of things that are said to taste of almonds?

[venta]

They're both nice, but quite different. Like banana and banana flavour, or real coffee and instant coffee.

Almond-flavoured things are often very sweet, which makes a big difference (though possibly the same difference as I see with peanuts and peanut buter).

[feanelwa]

Just imagine what it will be like to find you still hate peanut butter, and then find the jar a year later with one knife-ful taken out of it, going mouldy in the cupboard, and then have to scrape the mouldy gunk out of the jar and wash the jar up with all those bits of gunky horribleness floating in the water.

If you are one of these despicable people who throws out glass jars into landfill instead of recycling them if they have even mildly unpleasant things in, do not tell me. Let me keep my illusion of respect.

[venta]

No, I don't throw out glass jars :) Where I live at the moment I can't recycle plastic tubs (bottles yes, tubs no, even if they're made from the same type of plastic - no, I don't understand it either).

I already have a minor army of plastic tubs to use as fridge boxes, so I'm reduced to throwing them out which seems bad enough :(

If I buy peanut butter to try it (unlikely, admittedly) and find it's still disgusting I shall make it into lovely peanut butter cookies instead of having to do the mouldy washing-up dance in another twelve months.

[motodraconis]

I've spent the majority of my life utterly loathing peanut butter, including many of the same reasons you've described, which I utterly understand.

Then 2 years ago I had to buy some in order to trap vermin. This coincided with me being so short of cash I had to eat anything I could find in my cupboards (admittedly, this is a regular occurrence.) This could have entailed peanut butter and/or the trapped vermin, but the peanut butter won. I sort of don't mind it now. I don't love it, but I now keep a pot in the cupboard as emergency spreadable on breadable rations to eat when there is nothing else available. (Being as I don't care for sweet spreads.)

So ah, in times of desperation, one can build an immunity to the horror, and it sort of can grow on you.

Whether it's worth the hassle for you to build an immunity is another matter!

[venta]

I think my emergency spreadable savoury requirements are already well-covered by Marmite, so don't feel I really have a peanut-butter shaped hole in my life. Nice to know that the loathing can be overcome if necessary, though!

[sea_of_flame]

But - even if you don't like peanut butter, you can use it to make your own satay sauce (definitely involves lime juice. Can't recall other ingredients - instinct tells me some nice finely diced mild red chillies would be nice, and maybe a tiny bit of palm sugar depending on sweetness of peanut butter...)

[venta]

You can use it to make all sorts of lovely things, but doing so doesn't seem to be built into my cookery regime at present :)