Is it the same as eddoes? If so then yes I've used it and eaten it.
Is there an ingredient you have never used?
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Is it the same as eddoes? If so then yes I've used it and eaten it.
madebyyouandi
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Just to make sure, you do know I'm joking, right? Talking about spiders as being a reason NOT to visit Oz but then talking about spiders as an everyday occurrence...Err, that's not what I'm saying and i don't understand how you came to that conclusion either. I'm a Scot, married to an Englishman, taking out Australian citizenship, after his work offered to pay us to live and work in Australia 6 years ago. Until 5½yrs ago we lived and worked in the UK when not attempting to cycle settings the world.
I'm exactly what you're saying I don't want!
Look up "fried tarantulas" in Cambodia. Been there. Did NOT eat that -- talk about forbidden ingredients. Might be the perfect topic for this thread.
Well, ya'll were advertising for new topics/discussions...
Yes!!
I think I last ate them when I lived in London - I lived near Ridley Road market in Dalston which sold a lot of Afro-Caribbean vegetables. I used them in curries and stews I think.
Yeah - we had a thread about that sort of thing before and I think I may have posted this there - but hey, whatever you think of Gordon Ramsay, he is certainly up for it!
I´ve got a chef friend in Venezuela who cooks everything from the Amazon jungle. Including these:
madebyyouandi
Senior Member
Lord, they really blew that out of proportion. If you go down any street in Phnom Penh, street vendors have piles of freshly fried spiders all ready to eat. It's not a rare or specialty. (lol)
Talking to the locals, the Cambodians started eating tarantulas during the Vietnam War when supplies were scarce and they developed a taste for them. From what they said -- for I was not having any -- they likened it to crab. I have a pic somewhere of a stall with those tasty Vietnamese sandwiches right next to one of the spider vendors. It was like Fear Factor next to Mc D's.
madebyyouandi
Senior Member
Speaking of ingredients I've never used, I have a Spherificaion Kit in my pantry that I bought from Modernist Pantry last year. Still haven't gotten around to spherifying anything. Anyone done it?
Yes. Not for a while though. Its quite fun if you are in the mood.
