{"id":68243,"date":"2025-05-23T14:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=68243"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:32:32","slug":"digging-for-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/05\/digging-for-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging for dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under a blazing sunTwo lasses satDigging out roots<\/p>\n<p>knowing where \u00a0they were at<\/p>\n<p>The Cossid moth<\/p>\n<p>grubs<\/p>\n<p>big juicy souls<\/p>\n<p>wriggling quietly<\/p>\n<p>each having roles<\/p>\n<p>of juicy expression<\/p>\n<p>witchitty grubs<br \/>\ndigging and digging<\/p>\n<p>under the shrubs<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a fine Lepidoptera<br \/>\nsqueezed, \u00a0out of a stalk<\/p>\n<p>eaten raw or baked dry<\/p>\n<p>watch the soul walk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>sort of peanut buttery with a<\/p>\n<p>fishy taste<\/p>\n<p>jolly bush tucker<br \/>\ntheir table be graced<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>carry on digging<\/p>\n<p>goanna \u00a0be true<br \/>\nGrabbed in its burrow<\/p>\n<p>and cooked how you do<\/p>\n<p>squeeze out its guts<\/p>\n<p>its remnants and bake<\/p>\n<p>bash it to smithereens<\/p>\n<p>for nobody sake<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>burnt in the embers A lizard cake<\/p>\n<p>Makes a fine picnic<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s give and take<\/p>\n<p>from the sandy red soil<\/p>\n<p>where the tall grasses be.<\/p>\n<p>asleep in its burrow<\/p>\n<p>Deep down Come \u00a0and see<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under a blazing sunTwo lasses satDigging out roots knowing where \u00a0they were at The Cossid moth grubs big juicy souls wriggling quietly each having roles of juicy expression witchitty grubs digging and digging under the shrubs &nbsp; a fine Lepidoptera &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/05\/digging-for-dinner\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[646,89,357,659,356,374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aboriginies","category-australia-and-the-epic-journeys","category-bushtucker","category-countryside-wisdom","category-goanna","category-lepidoptera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68246,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68243\/revisions\/68246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}