Apply any standard meat pie recipe. The matter here is finding a meat that one thinks has the right consistency/taste of Paramite.
Paramites, though very bug-like in form and habitat, are clearly made up of large thick muscles (at least in the upper body). It stands to reason that given their musculature, they are red meat. I feel the only esculent part of its body is indeed it's upper-half. Using the shoulder shanks and arms as parts for thick chuck, and perhaps what little knuckle-meat there may be for more fine cuisine.
As for it's lower half and the ends of its anterior claws, I imagine they are made up of something similar to the connective base you find at the end of a bundle of snow crab legs. Individual chambers filled with tendons and some stringy, dirty meat separated by a waxy exoskeleton. This meat, and the crab-like meat in the legs is assuredly edible but, because of it's potential difficulty to remove without including large chunks of exoskeleton, are likely discarded.
I'm such a freaking nerd... so yeah. Essentially I would use a red meat, probably pork (justify it away with the god awful pig sounds they used in MO if you must). If you feel like getting the true experience, spoon a little of the "toss-away" crab meat into the mix and perhaps even a few flakes of the shell. Cook it in a filthy oven and try to enjoy.
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