I won’t deny it, when I look at the title I can’t help thinking that butterflies in a light tempura batter would make an interesting dish. It would also be likely to result in an outcry, and possibly a prosecution. All in all, I think I will give it a miss. They probably don’t taste that good anyway. I remember Number Two son describing chilli-coated scorpions (he doesn’t mess about when it comes to street food) when he came back from China – no meat, no taste – just chilli and crunch. I suspect butterflies, in the absence of a chitin shell to crunch, will just taste of batter. Here is some research on the edibility of butterflies.
We have had a lot of small tortoiseshells in the last few weeks – up to eighteen on the red buddleia, which seems to be the new bush of choice. Despite dead-heading the blue one is fading. That’s good to see after not seeing one small tortoiseshell for months in the middle of summer.
As I dried a cloth out on the decking a Speckled Wood dropped by for a drink. I had no camera, of course.
I ended the week with a splurge of 200 salt dough shapes – all farm animals for Flintham Show next week, but lost a considerable amount of time when the Farmer’s Sister turned up to set up the cafe. Not sure why feeding people bacon cobs takes precedence over educating the nation (though colouring salt dough shapes isn’t going to develop many Nobel Laureates, I confess) but that’s how it is. She won, the nation lost. Blood, they say, is thicker than water, and if this happens again we may get a chance to test that observation.
We also carried on with the cheese scone experiment, and finally seem to have nailed the flavouring in the Stilton and date variety, which is good news as there is a limit to the number of scones you can test. In my case it’s a higher limit than you may think, but there’s still a limit.
On Pies and Prejudice (also known as “the other blog” I’m already running into a problem with pie reviews – I just don’t want to eat another pie. Or Scotch Egg. It isn’t a problem at the moment because I have a couple of reviews already written, but in a week or two I’d better have recovered my appetite or I’m going to start wishing I had used another title.
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The cheese scones look good!
They were! 😉
I could eat the pies and let you know until you recover your appetite 😉
You are very kind! 😉
Your usual quirky fun. Have you tried frog’s legs? The advantage of the point and shoot camera is that you can keep it in your pocket. 🙂
Yes, I’ve tried frog’s legs – more meat on them than a butterfly! Yes, despite the spot on the sensor I must start carrying the old camera about.
It was the word “butterflies” in the title that got me in, but I don’t like the idea of eating them. The article you linked to was interesting. I thought birds didn’t eat monarchs because they were toxic from eating the milkweed plant. How interesting to find it is not so. Thanks.
I’m amazed at the things scientists will do for publication. Like you, I thought it was to do with eating poisonous plants.