For the Love of Garlic

Sigh.

Does anyone (besides my mum) hate garlic?

people who hate garlic are weird.

The resulting paste.

Crushing > chopping?

Roasting > frying?

Garlic bagels are the best thing ever.

I chop when I'm in a patient mood.

Lurpac with Garlic is num too.

Doesn't work for me, I get my usual stock four colds a year despite consuming garlic and chillies with almost every meal.

I have. I've also roasted several garlic bulbs in the oven to accomplish this.

Also I like it raw on peanut butter on bread.

Vast amounts of it raw, mmmm. But I do worry about the smell - sometimes it puts me off myself when it comes out of my skin (lasts for about a day!) and makes me not smell like myself.

The squeezing it out of the skin is my favorite part. One "whole thing" inevitably gets squeezed directly into my mouth.

-- mummy wrapped in bacon (nickaliciou...), June 9th, 2006 12:59 PM. (nickalicious)

I totally wanted to ctrl+c this to the "ilx out of context" thread, but the search function is being an asshole.

How about some pickled garlic, eh?

I got a bunch of cloves in the friggo marinating in balsamic vinegar. Most of the recipes I've seen call for boiling the garlic first, but I'm not sure I want to risk destroying garlic goodness, and I'm happy to cold-pickle. What's the best way to pickle garlic?

I bought Lazy Garlic, which is pickled - it took a lot to convince me that the rancid vinegar would cook off when my garlic was cooking.

I just chuck it into whatever I'm cooking and the garlic survives.

Dinner last night - slices of tomato with fresh garlic and cheddar cheese, nicoise olives, cornichons, bread. YUM

my garlic breath is kickin right now

OMG you all are making me hungry for its savory roasty kicky goodness. I want tapas and pickled garlic!

I made chicken with forty cloves of garlic tonight! Garlicky!

I make that in the slow cooker sometimes. Awes.

Me: Garlic are you the best thing ever?

Garlic: Although I am inclined to humility, it would be dishonest to disagree that I am, in your words, "the best thing ever."

Me: And you only cost like 17¢ each, but you improve the state of my life by 10^17.

Garlic: Ah, I don't want to get a swollen head. The lime is a fine food as well.

Me: Dear god you have no idea. But you're my first love.

lime and garlic, two cheap as chips ingredients that improve meals no end.

Preach it! Keep PREACHING the truth!

I mean, it's amazing how much difference a small lime makes to a chili's depth of flavours.

Mashed potatoes now taste tearfully bland without like 3 heads of roast garlic.

Got some tofu marinating right now in lemon + tahini + hell of garlic...I am so stoked to cook this shit UP.

I didn't know garlic was so modest! I expected it would be all French and looking down on lower condiments, but your conversation has opened my eyes. Will get some now, next time I go grocery shopping.

It lives in the dirt its whole life and then gets sold for very cheap, it can't evade its roots (if you will).

Can you believe some people don't even like garlic?

They are no friends of mine !

How weird; I was very close to starting a garlic thread about a fortnight ago. I love the stuff, and cook with it very often; a greengrocer near me has the best bulbs ever. My parents, and Em's dad, all hate it. Swines.

I propose we create the garlic haters haters club!

(None of you like Brussels sprouts though, right?)

i do liek brussel sprouts oven roasted to almost burnt with GARLIC

My tip of the day: if you don't have roasted garlic on hand but you want garlic mashed potatoes, throw the cloves into the water to cook with the potatoes. They'll get soft and smashable about the same time.

I microwave the heads in olive oil for abt eight minutes; gonna have to try your method bcz it's surprisingly easy to f this up in the microwave.

Garlic (vs Onions) thread from years ago.

TS Garlic vs. Onion

The ultimate no-win situation.

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 03:59

you OTM

my gurl loves to mince garlic, and gets all smiley when she finishes hyperventillating on her fingertips; so kyoot!

garlic, i lurve u

your gurl sounds like the coolest

gee-ya, she a'ite

Just ate some peanut-garlic curry thing. Garlic is pretty damn awesome.

Its very sad, here the cheap garlic is chinese-grown stuff. They flooded our market with their crappy cheap, flavourless buttons, so now the quality, locally grown stuff (with the fat fat cloves and the purply outer skin) costs $25 a kg. Yes thats right.

I pay it. Garlic is important, man. I'm gonna try growing some I think. Apparently fresh "spring garlic" (the green shoots on young bulbs) is nice in salad? Never tried it though. I guess it would be like chives.

I live in the SF south bay and man, sometimes in the early morning you can actually smell Gilroy. Mmm.

... I grew up there.

I never smelled you, I don't think. )

probably not ... the thing is, not all of Gilroy smells like garlic. Growing up, you could trace north/south movement on the old highway by smell. First, there was the mushroom compost, then the egg farm, then the tomato cannery, and finally the garlic.

Do you guys think babies at the age of starting to eat non-leche food items would like roasted garlic?

too farty

Tonight was a good night for roasted garlic, bread and too much wine.

eat garlic while breastfeeding so yr babby develops good palate

i want to know more about gilroy. i've only smelled its charms en route to/from the bay area.

I think I eat garlic in maybe 2 out of 3 meals every day. is it dangerous to eat too much garlic. I'm kind of afraid all my sweat and bodily fluids are going to become garlic flavored.

because people are clamouring to taste yr sweat and body fluids?

iirc lots of garlic = a good thing.

no, I just wonder if people are like "there goes that guy who smells like garlic...or worse" whenever I walk by

hmm i see your point.

ask randomly, it might be a neat icebreaker

http://api.ning.com/files/QPb73Plz-Kv50saKQ5hJO6asD0OUlp0uGzj6BFb-yIJc6eo2XoS2iwKREnAJQrH60hvbJ-C1wQrCEFWhaDTui-Q4axfgH1d4/garlic.jpg

those are some active mothers

is garlic as good as ten cougars?

will eating cougars attract or repel ten garlics?

wait I mean will eating ten garlic attract or repel cougars

1 garlic = 10 mothers
10 mothers = 1 cougar

1 garlic = 1 cougar

The Romans used to insert whole cloves of garlic into their anuses, you know. I forget why.

If I have 10 cougars and go to the market, how many garlics will I be able to purchase? Answer must be shown in mothers.

xpost WAHT

iirc lots of garlic = a good thing

not necessarily, according to Chinese medicine there is a balance. too much does something to your yin; or is it yang....
xpost

I made arabic garlic sauce (one and a half heads of garlic, a half cup of olive oil, some lemon juice, salt and black pepper) the other night and have put it on everything. FFFFFFFUCK!

i made a bunch of black-eyed peas and chard w/ tomato and stuff and the recipe suggested yogurt/garlic sauce and it is great but the raw garlic really sticks w/ u

I got elephant garlic in my delivery this week. I had to send a picture of it to /\/\/\/\/\/\ this ILX poster to identify for me

i have a black bean chili going in my crock pot right now... it has an entire head of (sauteed) garlic in it.

My boyfriend says when he washes my cutting board that it unleashes a history of past garlic smells. ?!??!!!
I am eating some hummus I made that is SO full of garlic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKntZJ_TZPA