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Garlic lovers of the world, unite!

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It's a good start. Needs a bit more....
It's a good start. Needs a bit more....

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I've just assumed that people get confused about the words -- bulb and clove. Surely they meant it needs two bulbs of garlic, right?!
 
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I love garlic! But I rarely eat it because my mother hates it :( so I planted it everywhere around my garden, both regular and ornamental varieties, and it looked so beautiful!
 
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Flora Eerschay wrote:I love garlic! But I rarely eat it because my mother hates it :( so I planted it everywhere around my garden, both regular and ornamental varieties, and it looked so beautiful!



I recently made a fantastic pesto from garlic scapes.

Oh, and I never once ate anything with garlic in it and uttered the words "There's too much garlic in here"...never will either ;)
 
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Kyle Hayward wrote: Oh, and I never once ate anything with garlic in it and uttered the words "There's too much garlic in here"...never will either ;)


Nope. Me neither :D

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Christopher Weeks wrote:I've just assumed that people get confused about the words -- bulb and clove. Surely they meant it needs two bulbs of garlic, right?!


Everything does! :D
 
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Want to know what goes best with garlic? More garlic!!!

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I like garlic but only occasionally add it to recipes, at least the bulb. I look forward to ramp leaves in spring as well as garlic leaves and scapes. Maybe it is because of laziness or just a sense of the preciousness of a single bulb.

I think that each clove is a bulb. The aggregate formation is a head—for lack of a better term. In the wild (or feral) garlic will split into cloves (bulbs) and by winter time the outer skin will have weathered and sloughed away, and the new bulbs will be rooted firmly in the earth, each an independent new plant.
 
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Here is the link to one of my favourite ways of roasting a chicken using the new season’s freshly harvested garlic for all you garlic lovers out there

https://permies.com/t/274665/Chicken-Recipes-Share#3212155

 
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Anyway, like I was saying, garlic is the fruit of the soil.

You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. There's garlic-kabobs, garlic creole, garlic gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple garlic, lemon garlic, coconut garlic, pepper garlic, garlic soup, garlic stew, garlic salad, garlic and potatoes, garlic burger, garlic sandwich.

That's about it.



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When I'm baking something in a medium oven, like apple crisp, I will put 6 bulbs in a small casserole dish with a lid and let them bake. Then I peel them all, and freeze them, so I have baked garlic to add to pesto, bean dip, garlic bread etc and it's easy to grab as much as I want.

As I've gotten older, I'm a bit more sensitive to raw garlic, so having baked garlic quick to grab, works for me.

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M Ljin wrote:I like garlic but only occasionally add it to recipes, at least the bulb. I look forward to ramp leaves in spring as well as garlic leaves and scapes. Maybe it is because of laziness or just a sense of the preciousness of a single bulb.

I think that each clove is a bulb. The aggregate formation is a head—for lack of a better term. In the wild (or feral) garlic will split into cloves (bulbs) and by winter time the outer skin will have weathered and sloughed away, and the new bulbs will be rooted firmly in the earth, each an independent new plant.



Ramps, YES!

The terms can be confusing. I agree with yours with this added...when I speak of it from now on I will go with whole head, that's hard to get folks confused. Individually, if it's going to be planted it's a bulb, if it will be eaten, clove. They are all possible future bulbs until I've decided they are cloves. They are precious so it can sometimes seem like work and destruction to break perfection up and eat it.
 
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Jay Angler wrote:When I'm baking something in a medium oven, like apple crisp, I will put 6 bulbs in a small casserole dish with a lid and let them bake. Then I peel them all, and freeze them, so I have baked garlic to add to pesto, bean dip, garlic bread etc and it's easy to grab as much as I want.  



Yesssssssss!!! Roasted garlic is soooo good. I have to cook a lot at once, because we will eat a whole head of it each in one meal, given the chance.

I'm only 65! That's not to old to learn to be a permie, right?

 
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Have you? Have you really? This dude has 132 varieties of garlic for sale, grown better than organic. And he's in Missouri too!

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Once, many years ago, I decided I needed to start cooking instead of eating out all the time.  I was young, newly in the military, and pretty much could only cook toast or frozen pizza.  I did what anyone would do, went to the library (no internet in those days), got a cookbook, looked at the pictures and decided to try garlic chicken.  The recipe called for two chicken breasts and a clove of garlic.  Well, I love garlic, so I decided two cloves would be better right?  Problem is, I thought a bulb was a clove, so I chopped up two full bulbs of garlic and covered my chicken breasts with it.  I couldn't even eat it.  The house stunk like garlic for a week or so.  Fast forward to about 15 years later, my brother starts telling me how he decided to try this recipe he saw that called for a clove of garlic...

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Joylynn Hardesty wrote:Have you? Have you really? This dude has 132 varieties of garlic for sale, grown better than organic. And he's in Missouri too!



Holey Guacamole! That's a lot. I topped out at 14 once. I only have 3 now but 1 that he doesn't have. I better contact this place.

One particular one that sounds very interesting to me is number 71 "Jessie's girl ( swamp garlic ) H".
Tolerates wet conditions. After a quick search I found this...

https://www.facebook.com/GatewayGarlic/posts/todays-garlic-of-the-day-is-the-one-the-only-jesses-girl-the-river-garlic-named-/3112553192161368/
 
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Flora Eerschay wrote:I love garlic! But I rarely eat it because my mother hates it :( so I planted it everywhere around my garden, both regular and ornamental varieties, and it looked so beautiful!



This sounds a mite like subtle revenge, eh?  Certainly very sneaky.  :)

"Won't eat the garlic?   Then you can stare at it.  Everywhere you turn, garlic everywhere.  Bwah haha."

No vampires tho.
 
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I just now cooked up a pasta recipe for the very first time. It calls for four cloves of garlic. Because I always follow a recipe exactly the first time I make it, I used four cloves, kind of surprised because I figured the garlic was supposed to be a main ingredient.

You know how when you taste a dish and it's lacking that certain "something"? Next time I make this recipe I'll be doubling the garlic... at a minimum.

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Pearl Sutton wrote:Garlic lovers of the world, unite!

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Some English people are suspicious of garlic, but I'm not one of them!
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The first time I tried babbington leek I was unfortunately surprised how garlicky it is! I still use it but in more moderation. It is useful, because true garlic doesn't really grow well here on Skye, but I can pick babbington leek almost anytime for a garlicky sensation.
I gather there is a related plant - perennial leek - with more onion and less garlic in the taste. I would like to plant some of that (and make sure I don't get them muddled up!)

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my husband caught me doing the "garlic calculations" the other night as i was cooking.

"recipe calls for 3 big cloves, my cloves are small, so use 8, then multiply that all by 2ish, ah just peel the whole damn head."
 
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Tereza Okava wrote:my husband caught me doing the "garlic calculations" the other night as i was cooking.

"recipe calls for 3 big cloves, my cloves are small, so use 8, then multiply that all by 2ish, ah just peel the whole damn head."


The garlic I grow is quite mild, so I don't get any where near that complicated with my calculating:

Recipe calls for 3 big cloves = use a bunch

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And if you like a good read where garlic is at the centre of a love affair, I recommend
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres,, although it is set at a terrible time in human history I have to say, as a garlic lover, it is quite memorable!
 
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