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| Articles about Snails |
| Snails | | 2008-07-11 02:09:06 | | A wife and her husband were having a dinner party for all the major status figures in Rome, Italy. The wife was very excited about this and wanted everything to be perfect. At the very last minute, she realized that she didn't have any snails for this dinner party, so she asked her husband to run down to the beach with the bucket she was handing him to gather some snails. Very grudgingly he agreed. He took the bucket, walked out the door, down the steps, and out to the beach. As he was collecting the snails, he noticed a beautiful woman strolling alongside the water just a little further down the beach. He kept thinking to himself "Wouldn't it be great if she would even just come down and talk to me." He went back to gather the snails. All of a sudden he looked up, and the beautiful woman was standing right over him. They started talking, and she invited him back to her place. They were at her apartment ways down the beach, and they started messing around. It got so hot and heavy, that | | By: 1 Joke a Day | | |
| | Snails - hibernating | | 2008-02-13 20:02:00 | | So far it has been a mild winter. We often use old house bricks to balance the flowerpots on. This serves two purposes - it increases the height of the pots and helps prevent them from being attacked by slugs and snails (at least sometimes). We have been cleaning out around the pots when this clutch of snails were spied squashed in the airspaces of one of the bricks. This is the first time that I have ever witnessed snails hibernating!
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| | Contributing to the delinquency of snails… | | 2008-02-08 10:52:12 | | So, once again, irrefutable proof that I am a bad person… I have recently noticed a proliferation of large garden-snails […big enough to be Escargots actually] congregating around my apartment’s front door.
At first I just thought they were loitering as young snails are known to do, but then I started to get suspicious. I mean, [...] | | By: Trouble's Island | | |
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| Sweet Snails, Sleeping | | 2006-07-26 19:30:00 | | Sometimes sleep seems an impossible task. These are quiet times in the night, requiring quiet work to tire both mind and body into a readiness for slumber. Breadmaking by hand is quiet, busy work. As with insomnia, patience is needed. It was during last night's late night, while replying to emails and catching up with familiar websites, that I found this simple recipe, for Pain Aux Raisins and Cream Cheese Snails, from Floyd at The Fresh Loaf. So sweet and charming, I knew I simply had to bake these delightful little treasures as well.The base is conveniently the same for these two recipes, both taken from The Village Baker , written by Joe Ortiz. While I prepared the base last night, the majority of this project actually took place early this morning. I cannot praise this dough enough. It works beautifully and I was more than pleased with my sweet little 'snails,' as they slept peacefully during their final rest, before being baked in the oven. Then, while still warm from the oven, I immediately sampled one of each. And, "Oh My!" It is nearly impossible to attempt a proper description. These lovely little pretties must be baked and tasted for oneself, in order to truly appreciate how delicious they really are.Pain Au Lait(recipe courtesy www.thefreshloaf.com) Ingredients:1 package (2 1/2 teaspoon) active dry yeast or 2 teaspoons instant yeast3/4 cup water3 1/2 cup all-purpose unbleached flour1 1/2 teaspoons salt2 Tablespoons powdered milk4 tablespoons sugar3 eggs6 tablespoons butter, softenedIf using active dry yeast, proof it in 1/2 cup of warm water for 10 minutes. (Alternately, instant yeast can be mixed in with the dry ingredients in the next step. )In a large bowl combine the flour, salt, powdered milk, and sugar. Add the yeast, water, and eggs and mix until ingredients are combined. Add the softened butter and mix or knead until the ingredients are thoroughly combined. You should have a fairly sticky, satiny dough.Place the dough in a greased bowl, cover | | By: The Suburban Apron Company | | |
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