I like escargot. I rarely have it though. The last time I had it was in a little restaurant across town. It was just okay. But the time before that I had it ona Carnival cruise ship, and it was the best escargot I had ever eaten. It was so good, that I considered passing on the rest of dinner, and just ordering more escargot. I didn’t. I did talk my brother into trying it, and he thought it was great to.
I was at the local grocery store looking in the canned fish section and saw cans of snails. Wow! It hit me that I could make escargot at home. I didn’t buy any at that time. But I started looking through my library of cookbooks looking for escargot recipes. I didn’t find anything in the many low-fat cook books. I kept looking. I was surprised to find escargot recipes in only two of my many cookbooks! Cookbooks that I thought for sure would have escargot, didn’t!
I looked around online and found some recipes. It seems like almost every recipe I found had tons of butter. Like a stick or two of it! Well that’s not low fat. But I have been formulating ideas of using Molly McButter or spray butter. I have a small spray I can use.
Snails in a can don’t come with shells. You need to buy the shells separatly, but they can be reused. Of course the grocery store doesn’t sell the shells. But I found them online.
I also need escargot dishes. I know I have had escargot not in shells. I was looking around on ebay and I found some escargot dishes with 6 little holes to hold the snails. I think I might be able to use these to cook the escargot without the shells. So I bought a pair of them.
I bought a can of the snails last night at the grocery store. So when I get the dishes, I will play with some ideas I have. What I may do is cook half a batch using regular garlic butter (non-low-fat), and half a batch with my low fat ideas. Then I can compare them.
