Year of the Cicada (Yummy!!!)

In Pennsylvania, it's soon time for the 17 year Cicadas to swarm again.



In honor of this, I offer up this recipe for Cicadas I found on the internet:

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Cicadas are a delicacy in the city of Shanghai, China, where this creative recipe originated.

Ingredients
Cicadas, anises, salt, rice wine, mashed garlic, celery, turnip greens.

Recipe
1. Boil the cicadas and anises in salted rice wine for five minutes, then remove the cicadas.
2. Sauté the mashed garlic, adding water and rice wine to make a paste.
3. Deep-fry the cicadas, then skewer them with bamboo picks. Arrange them on a plate with the turnip greens, celery, and garlic paste to look like the cicadas are climbing out of a mud pie onto green foliage. Bon appetit!
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No kidding, I used to know a girl who ate these things... alive.