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boisdevie1

Joined: 11 Aug 2006
Posts: 3897
Location: Lancaster

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 10 3:45 pm Post subject: Just eaten the snails
Hope I'm not dead in the morning. Tasted yummy. And free.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35056
Location: Devon

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 10 3:56 pm Post subject:
Gosh. Ordinary brown garden snails? So how did you prep/cook them? eta, I don't understand why it should be less acceptable than eating sea snails like winkles but it is some how.

boisdevie1

Joined: 11 Aug 2006
Posts: 3897
Location: Lancaster

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 10 3:58 pm Post subject:
Not ordinary garden snails. The really big roman types. Purged em for over a week then followed dpack's method - sprinkle salt over them and stir for 30 mins, boil for 30 mins. Took them out of their shells and friend them in garlic butter. Seemed to work but might be dead tomorrow!!!!!

Duckhead

Joined: 24 Oct 2009
Posts: 2069
Location: Up the hill, Italy

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 10 4:07 pm Post subject:
I ate snails once, not bad, a bit mushroomy I thought. Why though, when there are all sorts of less ugly things to be had? I'll save snails till there's nowt else left

boisdevie1

Joined: 11 Aug 2006
Posts: 3897
Location: Lancaster

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 10 5:10 pm Post subject:
They were free. And tasty. And here in France it's a bit of a tradition.

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 11405

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 10 7:36 pm Post subject:
I admire you BD - a friend once gave me some pickled sea slug to eat... I didn't like it and have never tried anything like that ever again

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 10 7:43 pm Post subject:
Snails are lovely, lots of garlic butter and crusty bread - yum!!!

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 10 8:36 pm Post subject:
Had a corporate trip to the Vienne Jazz Festival a few years ago and loads of garlic snail vol au vaunts and snails wrapped in parma ham, they were fantastic! The waitresses kepyt saying "But Sir, you do realise that you are eating the snails...."

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 10 8:38 pm Post subject:
Yummy! Trouble is, what with the amount of butter you tend to slurp down with them, they're probably on the banned list for those with cholesterol problems.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35056
Location: Devon

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 10 9:57 pm Post subject:

Penny wrote:

Snails are lovely, lots of garlic butter and crusty bread - yum!!!

Do you eat garden snails?

linz71

Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Posts: 119
Location: N.E.Lincolnshire

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 10 4:40 am Post subject:
My kids had two dozen garden snails sauted with panchetta a dash of chili and served with salad. They loved them!

boisdevie1

Joined: 11 Aug 2006
Posts: 3897
Location: Lancaster

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 10 6:15 am Post subject:
Over 12 hours later and I'm not dead- must have prepared em right.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 10 8:12 am Post subject:
We usually have lots of these large Roman snails round here but have hardly seen any this year with the dry weather. The French called them Escargot de Bourgonne and love them. How did you prepare them? Did you purge them? Mind you if anyone is thinking of foraging for them in the UK, they are a protected species.

AnnaD

Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Posts: 2777
Location: Edinburgh

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 10 8:33 am Post subject:
I have been tempted to try snails from our garden, but I've yet to get the courage to actually do it.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45515
Location: yes

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 10 11:18 am Post subject:
roman are nice but the large garden snails are fine you just need three times as many giant african ones are nice but need 4 hours boiling tiny ones are ok by the pint with a pin like winkles or even shell on with the softer types glad you enjoyed them

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