BREAKING NEWS – Miami, Florida – An enterprising Florida snake catcher has devised a festive way to combat the Everglades’ ever-growing Burmese python scourge — by using the reptile’s eggs to make ssssscrumptious Christmas cookies, among other dishes.
“Heading out to hunt tomorrow with some fresh rocky road & chocolate almond python egg cookies,” wrote Donna Kalil alongside a recent Instagram pic of the unorthodox baking ingredients. Since joining South Florida’s python eradication program in 2017, the Everglades crusader has bagged 470 of these Southeast Asian invaders, and often employs their body parts in various dishes, the Miami Herald reported.
“It’s a great source of protein and pythons are not poisonous,” Kalil explained.
Among the most prized are the python’s leathery eggs, which the unconventional chef boils, makes into frittatas and, of course, freezes for baking cookies. One of her more recent holiday-friendly creations was gluten-free rocky road and sugar hiss-mas cookies in the shape of little snakes.
“During the holiday season, I always send python cookies to friends and family members,” stated Kalil. “But for the friends and family members that I don’t particularly like, I also send them cookies, not from pythons that kill by constriction, but from rattlesnakes. And those are the ones I never hear from again… and neither does anyone else.”