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Hungry? ...no need.Eat snails

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chicken little

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I know I'd need to be fairly starved to do this but here's the way do "do" snails for dinner should you feel inclined.
Gather fat juicy snails;if you haven't got a garden,well someone has.Go looking.
Feed the snails with bread and water for 3-4 days,the prison diet,until their poos are bready.
Plunge into a pot of boiling water and cook 5 mins only.Drain.
Using forceps, extract the poor little creatures from the shells.This is called the forceps delivery method as opposed to C/S or natural delivery.
Stir fry in HOT garlic butter for 2 mins only.If you cvercook the little blighters they will resemble garlic-flavoured rubber bands.:smartass:
Serve immediately with crusty bread and a glass of fine New Zealand cab.sav.
ps...if you don't have forceps at hand,a bent safety pin will do -but this method lacks a certain finesse.
pss ...if you are of the French persuasion,you will probably know all this already. Cheers.
 
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Thank you Chicken Little I always wondered how to cook snails :D

I don't suppose you know how to breed them too, my chooks love snails :D

Is it snail season for you?
 
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AnneZ ...easy.Just go the the local plumbers yard and ask for broken ceramic pipes...hand span diam. ideal.When you are next in the supermarket,fill a bag with the discarded lettuce etc. greens that are always found binned in the vege. section.If you feel awkward at checkout just say you have to look after your kid's rabbits.If you lay the pipes in a shady/damp part of the garden and scatter veges about,you will soon find them colonised by armies of snails.For err,extraction purposes,:eek: this is where the pipe diam. becomes important.Good luck.
 
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Chicken Little, My hens thank you.

Did you know, the tastiest egg comes from a hen the day after she has eaten a snail.
 
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Escargots, they call them here...and they are very, very good to eat. We can even buy them canned or frozen, with empty shells on the side.

Stuff the little dead critters back into the shells and cover them with a mashed-up paste of butter, garlic, salt, pepper, and parsley, then bake or broil. There are even special plates with little holes for each shell to stand in, and special shell-graspers to hold the shell, and special long skinny forks, to dig the critters out of the shells with. Sop up all the juice with fresh bread.

I've had snail soup...a thin white sauce with white wine, shallots, wild mushrooms, and snails. And chicken with snail sauce...Mmmmm!
 
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Anyone have a suggestion for preparing widjeree grubs (millenium-old fare of the Aussie aborigines)? I came across several dozen finger-sized ones this evening digging in the garden. And who knows, if the going gets tough, they may make an easy (umm... pleasant?) meal. So is it your place or mine?...:D
ps who said the French had a monopoly on good cuisine?
 
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runninghorses; when I see you biting the head off a live wriggling huhu grub and sucking out the contents of its maggot-like body,I will become the Easter Bunny and start laying chocolate eggs.Errrrr mate,at least my snails were cooked and disguised with parsley or some such.:whistle:
 
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CL: Said one Aborigine to a balanda (white man) "when I see you biting in half a live oyster and sucking out the contents of its maggot-like body, I will become the Rainbow Serpent start laying opal eggs.Errrrr mate,at least my witchetty grubs were cooked and accompanied with native redcurrants or some such. Good luck disguising your cooked snails." :p
 
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susieM ...Frogs? NO NO NO.I remember a cartoon featuring a couple dining on frog legs in a restaurant looking to a door-way and seeing a legless frog on a wheel-chair looking at them very sadly.
 
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chicken little said:
susieM ...Frogs? NO NO NO.I remember a cartoon featuring a couple dining on frog legs in a restaurant looking to a door-way and seeing a legless frog on a wheel-chair looking at them very sadly.
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That was only a cartoon. If you need to eat frogs' legs, shake the in some seasoned flour and fry them with garlic.

Let's see, now....snails, caterpillars, barfbags, frogs' legs....I have a friend that eats sparrows, but there's not much meat on em. Guinea pigs are said to be delicious butterflied and barbecued. There is a thing called an edible doormouse.
 
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AnneZ said:
Hedgehogs anyone?
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Cook them gypsy-style...wrap in muddy clay and bake in hot coals, the spines and skin will come off with the clay. This method works for fish and fowl as well.
 
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I moved this because snails and other bugs are a viable option for a food source.
 
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My dad tells stories of his childhood when neighbors hunted and ate racoons, opossums and squirrels in Alabama, USA. Presumably with cornbread and "greens" on the side.

Sorry, I don't have any recipes :p . A google search will yield plenty.:eek:
 
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Had to eye those snails in our front garden this morning. I will try snails. I did some years ago when a friend from Monterey took a bunch of ours and grew them in his backyard in Monterey for consumption. They were good the way he prepared them.

How about banana slugs? He have some HUGE ones.
 
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If you don't mind the wild taste, woodchuck makes a good stew- slow cooked all day long. It has been some time now but squirrel gravy bets out most every other kind of gravy. IMO :)
 
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