Escargots (Snail)

No, I have not made this. Yes, I have eaten this (in Paris) and yes, it's good....

Ingredients

• 24 snails, canned
  
• ½ lb. butter, softened
  
• 1 Tbs. shallots, minced
  
• 1 tsp. garlic, grated with a micro plane or finely chopped
  
• 1½ Tbs. fresh parsley, chopped
  
• salt and pepper, to taste
  
• 24 snail shells, with snail serving dishes, and snail tongs, OR
  
• 4 glazed indented earthenware snail serving dishes, OR
  
• 24 small mushroom caps, trimmed and de-gilled
  

Preparation

1. Preheat oven to 400ºF.
   
2. Drain and rinse the snails.
   
3. Combine the butter with the garlic, parsley and seasoning and blend well.
   
4. Sauté the mushroom caps, if used, in a small amount of garlic butter until cooked but still firm. Remove from the heat.
   
5. 
   1. If using snail shells, place a snail in each shell and fill the rest of the space with garlic butter.
   2. If using a snail dish without the shells, place a snail in each indentation and fill the rest of the space with garlic butter.
   3. If using mushroom caps, place 2 or 3 snails in each cap and top with a generous amount of garlic butter.
   
6. Heat the snails in the oven for 5 to 7 minutes and serve with copious quantities of French bread for soaking up the garlic butter.
   

Snails?

They're actually pretty good. They're really buttery and garlic-flavored more than anything.

Yuck!

catbox_9 wrote:

They're actually pretty good. They're really buttery and garlic-flavored more than anything.

Maybe if i drank enough French wine


I don't know;

GoGetEmTigers wrote:

Yuck!

Have you tried them? Don't knock it until you try it.

catbox_9 wrote:

GoGetEmTigers wrote:

Yuck!

Have you tried them? Don't knock it until you try it.

GoGetEmTigers wrote:

catbox_9 wrote:

GoGetEmTigers wrote:

Yuck!

Have you tried them? Don't knock it until you try it.

Try them again maybe? Maybe they didn't make them right I had them at some cafe in Paris where nobody spoke any English. I was quite a ways away from the city center.

catbox_9 wrote:

GoGetEmTigers wrote:

catbox_9 wrote:

GoGetEmTigers wrote:

Yuck!

Have you tried them? Don't knock it until you try it.

Try them again maybe? Maybe they didn't make them right I had them at some cafe in Paris where nobody spoke any English. I was quite a ways away from the city center.

Do you speak French Cat?


I sure as heck don't


I be afraid to order something in a language I don't understand

They might bring me so fried Monkey Brains or something

that looks like poop in a shell.... nasty!!!

catbox_9 wrote:

GoGetEmTigers wrote:

Yuck!

Have you tried them? Don't knock it until you try it.

I had that a couple of times already. It's quite yummy i think!
The snails don't have a dominant flavor (if they have one at all) - it's the sauce that's very tasty.

gs78 wrote:

Do you speak French Cat?

I can say a few things....

S'il vous plaît
Merci
Bonjour
au revoir
Comment allez-vous?
Parlez-vous Anglais?
Je suis américain
Je ne parle pas français

I can also count to like 15 or so

Some things not to say...
Mon Dieu, que vos enfants sont laids
Combien de vos clients sont morts?
Ce restaurant n'est pas aussi bon que le Mc.Donalds
Vive l'Algerie

cool u kan speak french

detroitwings82 wrote:

cool u kan speak french

Not really. Just Spanish and English for me.

same here

catbox_9 wrote:

detroitwings82 wrote:

cool u kan speak french

Not really. Just Spanish and English for me.

Paso Robles is a Bilingual City

Isn't It?

gs78 wrote:

catbox_9 wrote:

detroitwings82 wrote:

cool u kan speak french

Not really. Just Spanish and English for me.

Paso Robles is a Bilingual City

Isn't It?

There's no such thing (at least in California). While Paso Robles (and California in general) has lots of people who speak Spanish as a native language, very few native English speakers speak any Spanish. The United States is probably the worst nation in the world in terms of teaching kids to speak multiple languages in school. Heck, you can't even start until 9th grade here. Most developmental psychologists agree it is much easier to learn a language at a young age than it is to learn one in high school and beyond.

catbox_9 wrote:

Most developmental psychologists agree it is much easier to learn a language at a young age than it is to learn one in high school and beyond.

Definitely true. We start with french in 3rd grade (age of 9 or 10) with french. Then you can add italian, english, spanish, etc.

Two couples i know educate their kids bilingual because one part of the parents is not native in Switzerland. One is from Greece and one from Spain. They started right from after birth to talk both languages with the kids. And the astonishing part is, the kids don't mix up the languages. It's so easy for them to learn it at this early age. What a gift for the kids i think.

swiss_tiger wrote:

catbox_9 wrote:

Most developmental psychologists agree it is much easier to learn a language at a young age than it is to learn one in high school and beyond.

Definitely true. We start with french in 3rd grade (age of 9 or 10) with french. Then you can add italian, english, spanish, etc.

Two couples i know educate their kids bilingual because one part of the parents is not native in Switzerland. One is from Greece and one from Spain. They started right from after birth to talk both languages with the kids. And the astonishing part is, the kids don't mix up the languages. It's so easy for them to learn it at this early age. What a gift for the kids i think.

Speaking lots of languages is a neat skill. I wish I was mutli-lingual. I mean sure, I speak Spanish and English, but who cares? I should have picked a different language. Sure, Spanish comes in handy, but people often ridicule people that bother to learn Spanish here. I don't think people realize they speak Spanish in Spain. I should have learned French or German....then I could watch those movies without subtitles. Thanks to Franco (or something), Spain has very little significant cinema compared to Germany, France, and Italy.

catbox_9 wrote:

I can say a few things....
Some things not to say...
Vive l'Algerie

:lol: I love that one! Where did you get this line from?

catbox_9 wrote:

Speaking lots of languages is a neat skill. I wish I was mutli-lingual. I mean sure, I speak Spanish and English, but who cares? I should have picked a different language. Sure, Spanish comes in handy, but people often ridicule people that bother to learn Spanish here. I don't think people realize they speak Spanish in Spain. I should have learned French or German....then I could watch those movies without subtitles. Thanks to Franco (or something), Spain has very little significant cinema compared to Germany, France, and Italy.

I have never thought about that but you're right, there are not many spanish movies i know. Don't ask me why.

true very true

swiss_tiger wrote:

catbox_9 wrote:

I can say a few things....
Some things not to say...
Vive l'Algerie

:lol: I love that one! Where did you get this line from?

I found it online somewhere. Let me find it again....
http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~mongoose/french/phrases.html


Some more useful phrases:
Vos enfants sont très beaux. Ils sont adoptes?
Je préfére l'Espagne

IM CONFUSED NOW

I only know one language


English


AND I AM FAR FROM AT EXPERT AT THAT

OW OK

gs78 wrote:

I only know one language


English


AND I AM FAR FROM AT EXPERT AT THAT

Yeah, me too. I took 2 years of Spanish in High School and forgot everything. When you have no reason to use something, you forget it.

ya i knw like im in spanish now i a havent learned anything

Actually;


I know a little bit of Spanish

Jose Cuervo!


and Yo Quero Taco Bell