Corn Meal & Mussels??

[Peachcreek]

In the summertime I have made bean and cheese burritos wrapped in foil and left them on the dashboard of my car and come back a few hours later to a hot lunch.....

[Suzanne]

Starting a new thread on Car-b-que ...

[kokopuffs]

When I lived in Berkeley, California, residents told me to soak the free roaming local snails - for escargots - in cornmeal to relieve them of any accumulated poisons from insecticides, herbicides, snailcides, etc. that gardeners would put in the garden. Dunno' if this helps.

[Athenaeus]

Since we are off topic

Kokopuffs how do they cook the snails there??

We do them here with two MAGNIFICENT ways.
Stifado, tones of onions in red sauce
Boubourista ( from Crete) braised with wine and rosemary...

* the song that's on the radio now...BTW snails are excellent source of Ferrum for pregnants

[kokopuffs]

For scargots in those days we'd saute them in clarified butter, garlic, shallots and parsley.

[Athenaeus]

Hmmm

Very French. Pas mal, pas mal

[kokopuffs]

That was in 1976 when I worked for a wine importer; Chez Panisse had just taken off, and Berkeley's "gourmet ghetto" was still in it's infancy. Pig By The Tail was located down the street. I could get entire sheets of pork fat back for lining pate terrines and breasts of roasting hens procured at Lenny's Meat Market. Narsia's Restaurant, a very chi chi place, was the ultimate in east bay dining experience.

Mmmm mmmm. The dayze of long hair and flaired levi's, and gasoline costing around a dollar. Tuition at Berkeley amounted to only about $1000 a year, only $200 at Cal State. Sigh.

Sorry for going off topic.

[shroomgirl]

Narsi Davids....my little brother after hearing the appetizers asked if they had anything but entrails to eat.....I could have killed him. Siblings sheeesh. Boy that was long ago and far away.

[kokopuffs]

Shroomgirl:

In the late 70's/very early 80's Narsia's opened a gourmet deli next to their restaurant. Patronizing the establishment every Saturday morning was always a great adventure, new flavors and aromas. I miss it. I learned about Narsai's thru Dr. George Linton, owner of Winetaster Imports, for whom I worked in his warehouse.

Here in Denver we have Tony's in Englewood and Cook's Market in Greenwood Village. Quite comparable to Narsai's Deli.

Did you live in the east bay? When? Where? Just curious.