I've eaten (loved) heaping plates full of marine snails (and proper "escargot" in restaurants)... It would be neat if I start gathering these and cooking them up.
Anybody know?
Thanks.
michael
Maybe he should have gone with the fried Spam samich.
I just drove in from UPMC Childrens Hospital in Pittsburgh. My son, Owen, who is 11, just had the "Nuss Procedure", a surgical procedure that corrects a severely depressed sternum by raising it (markedly) with a metal bar. The bar is about a foot long, attaches to ribs on both sides, and stays in for about a year. I had to return to work / Mommy will be "camping" w/ O for the rest of the week.
Owen's chest looks beautiful. Yesterday morning, he woke up by running his fingers over his new chest form. He only whispered, "my sternum is awesome". Short version: If you know of any boy who has this condition, please recommend this amazing procedure. It is well-known for its very painful recovery period, but it works! (fingers crossed here that the bar doesn't slip out of place, but... so far so good).
One time, while in college, my girlfriend (now wife) paid me a surprise visit. I wasn't there when she arrived but anyway... She looked in the oven and found a shrivelled hunk of pink meat laying in a congealed puddle fo white fat. A few cloves laid amongst the fat.
This is what happens when you're alone for the holidays and you cook a SPAM like a real ham (scored with diagonal marks and with a garnished with cloves).
I think she cried.
blue wolf's Link
Just did a speed read on "History of Pectus Excavatum" by Dr. Nuss...
Also just realized I have it though not pronounced...3 lower ribs on left side...or maybe just a deformity..has never had negative effect of any kind..big rib cage....
Owen is a tough Guy for sure...And it's amazing what modern medicine can do...
(Right in their with when a Doc super glued off a greatly enlarged blood vessel in my brain....or gamma knifed brain tumor #2)
Wonderful and amazing.
Looks great and wishing Owen well...
DON'T go feeding him any snails. ;)
Just saw this..... Dale, I am glad to hear that Owie is mending... never even knew of such a condition...
and I hope, no, I know he will enjoy fishing/camping/hunting with you and may only miss football a lil...
Tell him, we is all pullin for him....
Tom
