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Old 20-04-2007, 05:51 PM
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Fed up of slugs and snails in the garden and have taken a leaf out of Gordon Ramsey's book...

If anyone saw The F Word in the week he collected snails from the garden to eat. So at the moment I have 50+ snails in an old fish tank that I'm cleansing to eat!
You wash them with water only for a couple of days to wash toxins out and then feed them carrot. When they're excrement is orange they are ready to eat....
Once I've eaten them I'm gonna crush the shells to keep the slugs off!!
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Old 20-04-2007, 07:42 PM
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Yuck!! I know it's poetic justice, but I really could not eat snails!
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No! No way! Never!

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that is so wrong on many, many levels.
don't think i will be doing it, the thought of studying snail poo, isn't my idea of fun
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What kind of snails do you use Berksmike. Is it just the big brown ones or are the wee yellow stripey ones any use. Are you going to cook them in garlic and wine - or what ?
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MMMmmmm Garlic butter!!!!
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Old 21-04-2007, 12:43 AM
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Oh and how do you wash them Berksmike. Do you just spray them over with a hose. Do you feed them anything in the two days before they get the carrots.
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Old 21-04-2007, 12:52 AM
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I use the big brown ones....I washed them b4 putting them in the fish tank by puting them in an old ice cream tub with holes in and regularly wash water over them.
Then they go in the tank... Feed them carrots so you can see when they are purged of toxins. You can feed them things like dill to make them taste better.

To cook them its very much like any other shellfish... either cook them for seconds or ages... anything in between and they go really rubbery...
From what ive read either 60secs in boiling salted water or 1 - 2 hours poached in stock and then mixed with garlic butter or other sauce.

They are the same snails served in restaurants so why not...
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Old 21-04-2007, 12:58 AM
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Why not indeed Berksmike - and now I see the point in the carrots. I don't have too many of the big brown ones - but if they turn up, well...... maybe.
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Just water the edge of your borders and near any walls.. they soon venture out
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Old 21-04-2007, 09:11 AM
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you could try them in a paella. Please let us know what they were like.

I don't do meat myself but do take great pleasure feeding slugs and snails to my chucks, my rhode island red LOVES them.
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fantastic!

i thought i was mental collecting snails last night to eat but im not alone! good old gordon!
i always thought that they had to be special snails!
dont know what ill make yet but willl let you all know!
cheers buttercup
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