Re: Att. Ray -- of snails and slugs

En réponse à Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> >
> They're nice, too.  As a child, I had a multitude of pet frogs and
> toads, so
> wouldn't touch frog legs-- until I went to Indonesia 1971 and had them
> deep
> fried Chinese style.
>
He he, the first time I ever ate frog legs, it was in an Italian restaurant in
Eindhoven, the Netherlands :)) . So much for the legend of the frog-eating
Frenchies :) .

>
> SOMEWHERE (not Julia Child, apologies) I've read that wild snails should
> be
> kept first in a box or container with corn meal for several days--
> that
> apparently purges their systems of anything nasty they might have
> eaten
> (??).  But it's much easier to just buy them canned at a specialty
> store.
>
Never heard of this method. I wouldn't trust it if I were you. At least with the
salt method, you actually see all the bad liquids coming out :) .

>
> That's about it. Julia Child's recipe calls for:
>     1/2 cup butter
>     1 Tb. minced shallots or green onions
>     1-3 cloves [or more!] mashed galic
>     2 Tb. minced parsley
>     (Salt and pepper)
Yeah, shallots too, that's true. Never heard of using green onions, but again
they are not that easy to find in France.

> She says you should twist the shallots in the corner of a towel, to
> extract
> their juice-- but she's a big fan of twisting things in towels.  AFAIC
> it
> just wrecks a towel.  The butter is also recommended for broiled meats
> and
> fish, for basting baked/broiled fish or mushrooms; for broiled
> mussels,
> clams, or oysters.
>
I tried it with mussels but I found it really bad. The taste of the mussels
doesn't match at all with the taste of the butter!, But with meat (or simply on
bread) it's quite nice.

>
>  Have lots of good French bread handy, to sop up any extra butter!
> Then
> spend a few days at the gym working it all off.
>
:))) Yeah, don't forget the French bread, very necessary!!! As for working it
off, well the French have the best average life expectancy in the world, so it
mustn't be that bad :)) .

Christophe.

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