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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Dec 30, 2014
MMMM... exactly... lots of butter and garlic Hmmm... actually, thinking about it... even having eaten them, I'm not entirely sure what snails taste like/of.... other than.... garlic and butter
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swl Posted Dec 30, 2014
My recipe for snails
12 snails, freshly caught
1/2 pt chicken stock
2 cloves garlic
sprig parsley
Juice of 1 lemon
piece of muslin approx 6" square
salt and pepper to taste.
Bring the stock to a slow simmer and add the snails, garlic, lemon juice and muslin cloth. Simmer for 15 minutes then ladle the mix into a serving bowl. Fish out the snails and throw them away, garnish the muslin with the parsley, season with salt & pepper and eat that.
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Maria Posted Dec 30, 2014
Butter and garlic and herbs are said to be the best accompaniments to snails.
It depends on the snail. The terrestrial(?), those that live on earth and eat plants taste of nothing so you need a good sauce. Actually it´s the sauce what many people enjoy most. I like one with toasted and grinded almonds, garlic, pimentón, herbs (fennel, laurel, cumin...), a bit of serrano ham or a stock cube, water, white wine and hot pepper.
The marine ones need nothing, they are very tasty, can´t imagine anything added. Heresy!!!
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Pink Paisley Posted Dec 30, 2014
'12 snails, freshly caught'.
An exhausting morning's work!
PP.
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Florida Sailor All is well with the world Posted Dec 30, 2014
Down here most people hunt with dogs, due to the thick underbrush of palmettos. The secret of teaching them to heard snails is training them not to run.
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You can call me TC Posted Dec 31, 2014
I am reminded of one morning, many decades ago, on a campsite in France. Well - I say campsite. It was a field with a primitive sink in the middle with a cold tap. Cost us all of 8 francs the night. Anyway, upon my first visit to the tap to get water for the kettle early one morning, I encountered two ancient, rotund French ladies with buckets overflowing with snails which they had obviously been collecting since dawn.
All of which must be the absolute opposite of luxury.
I wonder if they ate the snails themselves or sold them to restaurants.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Dec 31, 2014
"I encountered two ancient, rotund French ladies" [TC]
Are you sure they were French? Mireille Guiliano wrote a book called "French Women Don't Get Fat," and I would hate to think that Ms. Giuliano would lie to us .
Also, do dogs really herd snails? And do snails escape capture? They can't move very fast, except for the title character in "Turbo."
I would just as soon leave snails alone, unless they are ruining my lettuce or tomatoes. Something must eat them [besides humans I mean], since they don't seem to have overrun the Earth.
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Deb Posted Dec 31, 2014
I had a whelk recently. It was very chewy - after a few minutes someone very kindly handed me their used coffee cup! I imagine snails to be a similar texture and will therefore avoid them like the plague.
Luxury to me is time to do all the nothing I want. I've been enjoying that this week.
Deb
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Florida Sailor All is well with the world Posted Dec 31, 2014
No paulh, I just had an amusing vision of a pack of dogs trying the nudge the snails onto the path with their noses Although dogs here are not just used to retrieve birds, but for flushing deer and running down wild hogs. In the opening of 'The Yearling' there is an interesting event of hunting a bear with a pair of dogs. I am not supporting the practice, only reporting about it.
On the subject of eating snails, I have had some very tasty ones, but as the others have said, they seem to be just a convenient way to get to the butter and garlic
I think a great deal of the taste and enjoyment depends on the preparation of mollusks. I would not think of visiting the Caribbean without a few dishes of conch. On the other hand I have never had them in the US that I was not reminded of used pencil erasers Just my
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loonycat - run out of fizz Posted Dec 31, 2014
Molluscs aren't my idea of luxury
The farmhouse \ guesthouse where I stayed for my sister's wedding was fairly luxurious by my simple standards
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 1, 2015
Over the years I've occasionally found great restaurants where I could get fried squid. In the 1970s there was a Greek restaurant that had the dish. More recently, there was a buffet-style Chinese restaurant that was equally adept. Sadly, both places have closed.
I have a friend who used to have a colony of snails in an old aquarium [minus the water, of course]. Now that I think of it, when I had water and fish in my own aquaria, I sometimes had snails in with them, to eat the algae that grew on the sides.
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- 21: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Dec 30, 2014)
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- 23: Maria (Dec 30, 2014)
- 24: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Dec 30, 2014)
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- 27: Florida Sailor All is well with the world (Dec 30, 2014)
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- 31: Deb (Dec 31, 2014)
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