I'm proud of myself - I'm cooking today. I just put a pan of pigs-in-the-blanket into the oven.

I've blogged before about my shortcut recipe for pigs, and today I made another small change: in addition substituting buffalo meat for the ground beef, I used a mixture of brown and wild rice in place of white rice. I still think my Slovak grandmother would be proud of me.

My other news is also about how good some things taste.

Wild raspberries are starting to ripen. I forage for them along the driveway when I come home from my morning and evening walks. I nab the berries as soon as they're ripe because I figure I'm in competition with the black bear that showed up here at the house a couple weeks ago.

A couple of tree frogs cling to the kitchen window almost every night so they can eat the bugs and moths drawn to the kitchen light. I like to watch them hunt. The frogs creep very slowly across the window toward their prey, and when they're close enough, they dart forward with open mouths. Sometimes they have to use a front foot to stuff the moths into their mouths.

All of which makes me wonder: what do moths taste like to a tree frog? Do different moths have different flavors? What kinds of taste buds do frogs have?

I know my gray cat likes to eat June bugs and dragonflies, and I can only guess that she likes the taste or perhaps the feeling of crunchiness in her mouth. Maybe dragonflies are like Doritos to a cat.