Chitchat thread #24

[Florence Fennel]

Good Morning Nicos, CG and anyone else who is up and busy like those two Me? Waiting for Frankifurter. Still raining here. Have a good day

[Containergardener]

Oh enjoy your visitor FF

[Bren In Pots]

Morning

Rain due till lunchtime then dry after that its rather blustery though. Some potting on in the GH then erecting the bean frame later.

Nicos pick me up some fresh warm Croissants please.

enjoy your day

[greenishfing]

Good morning all.

It's cold, windy and drizzling here. It feels like November.

Oh Nicos, I'm jealous.....a French market. I'm usually a firm believer that all holidays for me should not involve any cooking or cleaning, etc. However, after walking round the market in Marseilles once, and the quay, where the fishing boats were selling their catches, all I wanted was the use of a kitchen.

Bren, you have just reminded me about the frozen croissants in the freezer. Mmmmmm!

CG, maybe you should collect your snails and munch them??

[Bren In Pots]

It's cold, windy and drizzling here. It feels like November.
Bren, you have just reminded me about the frozen croissants in the freezer. Mmmmmm!

GF I've not tried frozen croissants can you let us know your verdict please.

[greenishfing]

GF I've not tried frozen croissants can you let us know your verdict please.

Definitely.

[Snoop Puss]

Morning all.

Sunny and no rain forecast here. Mr Snoop is out with the dogs and I'm at the coal face of the computer. Not that sorry, as no work for a month and more is a bit worrying.

As for the smiles, no idea when they left. Possibly gone off to the market with you, Nicos?

Have a great day, everyone.

[Nicos]

And I’m baaack!
I’ve not been to a market since probably before Xmas - and really enjoyed having a good look around- and people watching!
Blue clouds as we set off but it’s threatening rain now ….pity , cos I wanted to play with my new water pump!…yup - it has arrived! ( Be interesting to see if a second one arrives and our postage is returned as promised )

[Containergardener]

CG, maybe you should collect your snails and munch them??

ewwwwwwww think I will give that a miss

[Jay22]

Morning, rain here and forecast for the entire day.
Nicos, mussels and French bread sounds lovely! I like them cooked in garlic and white wine although I usually buy them
pre-cooked as don’t fancy doing it myself! I know, I know I shouldn’t eat anything I can’t k*** but….
Anyhoo enough of that, hope you all have a fab day. x

[Containergardener]

Returned from shopping. Always spend more when OH is with me, funny that.
Theres alot of flooding, rivers have completely burst their banks. Must've have had more rain there than here and whether it was a high tide too I'm not sure but that usually causes it.
Right am off to pick my poppies off the ground even though its still drizzling.

[greenishfing]

Jay, for some weird and whatever reason, I never associated steaming mussels, and them then opening, with killing them.😱🤯

However, I will have to live with this. I prefer them with red wine, onion and garlic myself.😋 I know that I was considered "not normal English" in Spain as I loved rabbit, mussels and snails. My Spanish was never fluent, but I used to be used by waiters in my favourite restaurants as a translator as I certainly knew my way around a menu. It always amazed my how unadventurous lots of my fellow countrymen were.

[rary]

CG, maybe you should collect your snails and munch them??

Apparently if you collect snails and feed them on vegetables for a minimum of three weeks they should be safe to eat, the "should be" bit is NOT a thing that I consider safe enough, the only snails I would eat are whelks as they are known here, wulks

[Jay22]

Sorry GF!!!!

[Nicos]

We have edible snails in our garden!…they are massive!
The first are escargots de Bourgogne - or Roman snails
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_pomatia
…. and the huuuge white ones ( Gros blanc) which are even bigger
I guess they were bred on purpose by previous residents and some escaped, but by heck they don’t half do damage.If you put the tip of your thumb to the tip of your first finger, they’re too big to pass through that hole!

Nope- we don’t eat them - but apparently they should be starved for several days as far as I’m aware to purge them, then fed mashed carrot so when that passes through them you know they are ready to eat. People look excited when we tell them we have them….bit like finding truffles I suppose?

I’ll take a photo for you to check them out.

Lets hope the weather picks up soon - we keep getting tastes of summer- then it starts raining