Speaker: Hi, everyone. I am in Columbus, Ohio in the United States. It's currently April 19, 2007 and today I am going to be looking for the Reticulated Central Ohio Lizard.
Now, I don't know if you know a lot about this but the Reticulated Central Ohio Lizard is fairly rare, however, it does leave eggs and mons (ph) that are overgrown, such as mine. The eggs are only about that big, the size of my thumb, but unfortunately for the reticulated lizard, its eggs are very tasty.
So today we are going to attempt to find some of its eggs and eat them. The Central Ohio Reticulated Lizard often finds its eggs in small banks of grass that are overgrown. The best way to find it is simply to dig through the grass. If you have dogs, you might want to wear gloves. I don't wear gloves because I am not afraid of a little poo poo but some of you may want to. So we are just going to check around here, stick down, see in, and here we go.
This right here is the egg of a Central Ohio Reticulated Lizard. There are only about 200 of these laid every year in Central Ohio and here's one of them and we are going to try to find some more. I found a whole nest of them.
Some people like to boil these eggs or braise them, them sauté them. You can put them in the microwave, tastes horrible. But what I prefer to do is fry them. Note that the stove is in fact off and that you should not put your head or beard this close to a hot pan.
As we wait for the pan to heat up, let's take a moment and examine this egg. It is smooth and white on all sides. It has a round end and a more pointed end. However, you should note that this is an optical illusion. I am simply holding the egg close to the camera. The egg is much smaller than the pan itself.
We are going to be using a teflon lined pan, so to prevent damage to the pan I am going to use some vegetable oil, but as you'll note I am holding it slightly out of frame, so as not to provide free advertising for vegetable oil.
When you go to pour your vegetable oil in the pan, be liberal with it. Pretend you are a blogger. Note how the oil spreads out a little bit as it heats up. It's a not pretty swing, it just spreads out, like it doesn't give a crap.
I think this oil is getting pretty hot, wow, so I think this oil is getting pretty hot now, so I want to go ahead and crack one of these eggs into the pan.
The shells of the lizard eggs are rather -- you see it may have a hard time cracking them. It looks like we are frying a bit of the egg shell here.
Let me try another one. I don't know if you can see this, but it doesn't look like the shells are breaking at all. Perhaps, we can just sort of set them. Yes, can we do that? This could be a new way to cook these eggs. Roll them around, have oil. There are different things you can do, and they smell wonderful.
Look like these are about done, what do you guys think, yeah, let's clear them up.
There we go. Doesn't that look delicious? Now you probably going to want about four of these to feed one person or somewhere around eight if you wanted to feed two people and so on. You can do the math accordingly. Thanks for watching my cooking special on the Central Ohio Reticulated Lizard.
Remember, come back next week. We might have a different kind of weird lizard egg.
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