Comments on: Cooking Garden Snails

By: scott

scott — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 10:29:28 +0000

bobhiploss: I’ll tweak my print style in the next few days so it chops the comments when printing. Thanks for the input!

By: bobhipkiss

bobhipkiss — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:32:38 +0000

U need a printable version without the comments

By: scott

scott — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:21:36 +0000

Hi meredith: Without reading your entire blog I couldn’t find that article Love your photos though – I wish I could live there!

By: meredith

meredith — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:00:55 +0000

I blogged about where I found a snail a couple of weeks ago. After that, I don’t think I’ll be eating any more of these slimy creatures, free or not

By: scott

scott — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:42:21 +0000

peabody: I’m not sure they’re all that popular over here (UK) either. They’re only occassional in restaurants, to be honest, rather then a regular feature.

By: peabody

peabody — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:43:41 +0000

My uncle did this way back in the 80’s. Since snails are not all that popular here in the states his idea did not take off very well.

By: scott

scott — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:04:28 +0000

Nick: I found the same thing when reading a book about Mushrooms – I was scared to pick any after reading that. It even cast doubts in my mind over the “safe” boletus mushrooms such as the slippery jack. Still, the same with any food – it’s best to be safe and not sorry. Great site and thanks for posting it!

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:26:12 +0000

Thanks for the tip about tights – I once tried purging some deliciously fat Roman snails on vine leaves but they all escaped! Meanwhile, your aside about most snails being edible aroused my curiosity. Around here (deepest Suffolk) there are hundreds of variously coloured Cepaea nemoralis – though they’re really too beautiful to boil.
Looking for a list of edible species, I found the wonderfully named Man and Mollusc website – http://www.manandmollusc.net/molluscan_food_files/molluscan_food_mp.html – with its database of edible molluscs of land and sea. Enough warnings to put anyone off though!

By: scott

scott — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:38:33 +0000

Susan: Everyone except my wife. The variety in our garden is very strong tasting and not to her liking

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:58:31 +0000

Doesn’t everyone like wild rocket? I suppose you are right, though. They could be picked off by birds, too, so it might as well be you.