…No, really, I’m serious…
Some of you may remember our leech special issue. Well a few months have gone by and the leeches needed to eat again. I googled around online and found virtually nothing really authoritative about feeding leeches…one suggestion said to put them on a blood soaked towel…that didn’t go well. Another suggestion was to feed them with purpose made blood sausages. This worked and since there’s no other source online, I present my guide to the care and feeding of leeches. Perhaps not as humorous as we’d like but…it’s late…
First buy beef blood. This is easier than it sounds. If you go to any butcher, they’ll freak out and look at you like you have six heads. This has probably been the case since Carrie came out. People only want blood for Halloween pranks and your local butcher doesn’t want a visit from the Sheriff. Fortunately Beef blood is important in various cuisines and can be easily purchased online.
http://filipino-store.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=275
Buy sausage casng. Your butcher will sell you that. Or you can order it online too. That’s intenstine…
Knot the sausage casing at one end…or it’s not going to work very effectively to hold blood. Natch…
Now…stretch the sausage casting with the tip of your finger.
Pour your blood into a test tube, or other long cylindrical container.
Work the sausage casing over the tube.
Work a finger or a hollow object like a straw in to release the suction…and pull the tube back out.
Mmmm…blood filled sausage ball…it’s going to leak a little.
Tie it off…
Now you microwave it…this is the only part where you need to be really careful. You need to microwave it for about 5-10 seconds. Check it. If you go over, you’ll get a nice brown blood pudding the consistency of liver. It’s actually kind of tasty, but…it’s not useful to the leeches. Start over…it happens very quickly so…check very often…
Hungry leech…
Dinner time..
And we’re done. Eat your heart out Iron Chef…
