By Catherine Craig | President
In our last report we introduced you to mofo-gassy (Malagasy bread), a delicious flour-pancake. The pancakes are similar to the Danish treat, aebleskiver made with apples. We now challenge you to try our new mofo – cricketskiver made by CPALI Walla Walla volunteer, Walla Walla volunteers Theo and Eric Gryler, in our home kitchen. Delicious cannot describe the concoctions - cricketskiver with cherry jam, cricketskiver with pear preserve, cricketskiver with honey, and the “traditional cricketskiver”with apple. Our next mission will be savory cricketskiver with hot sauce!
Great Grandma’s Danish Aebleskiver is made with 2 cups of flour – cricketskiver (or maybe grylskiver in honor of the field cricket, Gryllus, and Eric Gryler) is made with 1.5 cups of flour and 0.5 cup of cricket flour (or ground-up crickets). The flour has a delicious nutty flavor and adds extra protein to a favorite Malagasy breakfast food. I can hardly wait for our next visit to SEPALI Madagascar where we will introduce cricketskiver – served with cinnamon bark tea!
Our insects for food farming group continues to plan for a Madagascar meeting in April. Our goal is to have identified a suitable species for farming in addition to gathering together all individuals interested in introducing insect farming for nutrition and profit. Our model so far is to organize a central insect factory for processing and farming as well as introduce home farming of insects to interested families living in villages. Since most subsistence farmers are not eager to take on any project other than rice production for food, or projects that don’t yield money, we hope to design a system where farmers will be able to sell their crop to the processing center for grinding, packaging and distributing. Since insects have both high protein and iron content, and both are accessible to the human gut, we hope that we will be able to help improve childhood nutrition.
Be the first on your block to make cricketskiver! We will let you know how the SEPALI Madagascar team likes criskiver as soon as they return from vacation!
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