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  • Getting Your Own Back...Snails With Wild Garlic.

    Snails with wild garlic


    They are available year-round but best found in late October and November, when they start hibernating in nooks and crannies. Yes these are the very same snails that eat our veg.



    If you are collecting snails before their hibernation, store and starve them for a few weeks, or feed them salad leaves to clear out any unhealthy residues of poisonous plants. Then boil them alive before removing them from their shells, gutting and washing. To cook, fry them with butter and wild garlic. I don't know if I'm brave enough to try them though .

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    yuk .......where's the sick bucket?
    S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
    a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

    You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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    • #3
      Originally posted by binley100 View Post
      yuk .......where's the sick bucket?
      So does that mean your not coming to the barbecue at Jeanied's ???
      Last edited by ginger ninger; 10-06-2011, 01:41 PM.

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      • #4
        We'll pass on the snails if you don't mind......... anyway I thought we were meant to be keeping you in the dark about that
        S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
        a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

        You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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        • #5
          Originally posted by binley100 View Post
          We'll pass on the snails if you don't mind......... anyway I thought we were meant to be keeping you in the dark about that
          I was only guessing....

          Last edited by ginger ninger; 10-06-2011, 01:52 PM.

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          • #6
            Now that is waaaaaaay to sneaky ...............norty step now if you don't mind

            OMG now I'm in trouble.......
            Last edited by binley100; 10-06-2011, 01:57 PM.
            S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
            a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

            You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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            • #7
              Yuk, Yuk, Yuk. Pass the sick bag please. My grandchildren spent the afternoon collecting snails in a bucket and I promised I wouldn't kill them, so I have released them in the gap behind the compost bin. I couldn't possibly eat them, though I am prepared to either give them flying lessons or drown them in salty water.

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              • #8
                Big bunch of Wusses! Plenty of crusty bread to mop up the garlic as well and a nice glass of plonk. But then again I love whelks, oysters etc as well.

                I've looked into it before but the book I have advocates cooking them for hours and hours. Not sure I could be bothered for one good mouth full.
                Fantasy reminds us that the soul is sane but the universe is wild and full of marvels

                http://thefrontyardblog.blogspot.com/

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                • #9
                  If anyone wants to try eating snails feel free to come and collect mine
                  Location....East Midlands.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Bren In Pots View Post
                    If anyone wants to try eating snails feel free to come and collect mine
                    Mine too, PM me for the address

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                    • #11
                      I know a man with a wood full of wild garlic if that helps
                      He who smiles in the face of adversity,has already decided who to blame

                      Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by bearded bloke View Post
                        I know a man with a wood full of wild garlic if that helps
                        Does he want my snails?

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                        • #13
                          I could never deliberately cook something alive - so barbaric - even for those bladdy slugs/snails. Mind you I feel guilty squishing aphids, especially if you happen to get a good look at their faces first.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Shadylane View Post
                            I could never deliberately cook something alive - so barbaric - even for those bladdy slugs/snails. Mind you I feel guilty squishing aphids, especially if you happen to get a good look at their faces first.
                            Luckily my eyesight is so bad that I can't actually see aphids' faces

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by binley100 View Post
                              Now that is waaaaaaay to sneaky ...............norty step now if you don't mind

                              OMG now I'm in trouble.......
                              .......

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