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

[ginger ninger]

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 .

[binley100]

yuk .......where's the sick bucket?

[ginger ninger]

yuk .......where's the sick bucket?

So does that mean your not coming to the barbecue at Jeanied's ???

[binley100]

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

[ginger ninger]

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....

[binley100]

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

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

[rustylady]

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.

[dave_norm_smith]

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.

[Bren In Pots]

If anyone wants to try eating snails feel free to come and collect mine

[rustylady]

If anyone wants to try eating snails feel free to come and collect mine

Mine too, PM me for the address

[bearded bloke]

I know a man with a wood full of wild garlic if that helps

[rustylady]

I know a man with a wood full of wild garlic if that helps

Does he want my snails?

[Shadylane]

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.

[rustylady]

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

[ginger ninger]

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

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

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