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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8086121" data-attributes="member: 19675">Same here.&nbsp; My Mom’s cousin used to make crawfish pie with store-bought puff pastries.Which reminds me...my folks and I were once invited to a private party that was catered by a local chef.&nbsp; No, seriously, tall white hat, owned a restaurant, the whole deal.&nbsp; The dish that stood out to me were his escargot tarts.&nbsp; Usually, escargot is served in the shell with a wonderful buttery, garlic sauce.&nbsp; Frequently, there’s more sauce than the mollusks morsel can deliver to your mouth, so it goes to waste...This chef, however, eschewed the shell and made his dish into bite-sized tarts.&nbsp; The light crust contained the snail and the butter-garlic sauce that had been thickened to a soft paste- almost like peanut butter.&nbsp; So in something the size of a mini-Reese’s peanut butter cup, you got EVERYTHING!&nbsp; I confess, I made a pig of myself on those things, including repeatedly grabbing them from the platter in the front hall as we were chit-chatting before leaving.I’ve never encountered anyone else doing escargot even remotely the same way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 8086121, member: 19675"] Same here. My Mom’s cousin used to make crawfish pie with store-bought puff pastries. Which reminds me...my folks and I were once invited to a private party that was catered by a local chef. No, seriously, tall white hat, owned a restaurant, the whole deal. The dish that stood out to me were his escargot tarts. Usually, escargot is served in the shell with a wonderful buttery, garlic sauce. Frequently, there’s more sauce than the mollusks morsel can deliver to your mouth, so it goes to waste... This chef, however, eschewed the shell and made his dish into bite-sized tarts. The light crust contained the snail and the butter-garlic sauce that had been thickened to a soft paste- almost like peanut butter. So in something the size of a mini-Reese’s peanut butter cup, you got EVERYTHING! I confess, I made a pig of myself on those things, including repeatedly grabbing them from the platter in the front hall as we were chit-chatting before leaving. I’ve never encountered anyone else doing escargot even remotely the same way. [/QUOTE]

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