Garlic Bread!
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Not got into garlic bread yet... but the idea of a cheesy garlic bread with tomatoes and pepper on top is making me salivate... a spread of freshly roasted garlic sounds like it might make a great addition to an already good sourdough bruschetta... 
I put unpeeled garlic cloves in with roast potatos too, and peeled and halved ones into the meat.
For lasagnes, mousakka etc I do cheat and use the tubed garlic paste, thou ~ saves on the smelling fingers
Anyway someone did go to all the effort of peeling those cloves and forcing them into a little tube, would be rude not to use lol
For lasagnes, mousakka etc I do cheat and use the tubed garlic paste, thou ~ saves on the smelling fingers
Anyway someone did go to all the effort of peeling those cloves and forcing them into a little tube, would be rude not to use lol
^ That's how I look on garlic infused olive oil. I drizzle it over bruschetta instead of making garlic bread...
You guys are so mean. I have an intense craving for garlic bread now, a craving which cannot be satisfied in my little cubicle!
It doesn't help that I was chopping some garlic cloves on Saturday and the smell is still under my fingernails...mmmm....
It doesn't help that I was chopping some garlic cloves on Saturday and the smell is still under my fingernails...mmmm....
As the late Frugal Gourmet, Jeff Smith said once, "If your lover doesn't love garlic, leave her".
^ Let them have a tiny taste too, even if they're not partial to it, then all is well. 
If my boyfriend didn't like garlic it just wouldn't work out. It's bad enough that he doesn't like onions (though I have been slipping them into the meals I cook for us so he doesn't actually know that he is fine with them...), but garlic would be too much. Sometimes we have a whole loaf of garlic bread as a meal itself.
^I'm sure the taste of garlic is in the mind! My grandparents went to their grave without experience something so 'exotic'. It is a slightly 'acquired' taste, but once you've fallen for the 'clove of life' ~ in health terms as well as taste sensation, you're happily devoted to it 
Raw, no. (Though, I tried once.) Roasted, certainly.
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Garlic bread is required eating. Especially at weddings, for some reason. 
(Gave me a little heartburn, but that's chili powder for you. 
) My dad then tried making some of his own - it wasn't the same. 
Apparently it goes well with mixed nuts and chili, but only if done right. I once received a shipment of the stuff from Sri Lanka, and it was simply divine.
(Gave me a little heartburn, but that's chili powder for you. ) My dad then tried making some of his own - it wasn't the same.
My great grandmother was raised in the Yemen, and in her final years, she used to ask me to bring her garlic "leaves", not "cloves"... and I searched for them at all sorts of veg markets and never succeeded in locating anything relating to the garlic apart from the cloves themselves... can anyone shed some light on this?
Yes you can buy it. it's called "wild garlic". You can often find patches of it growing wild in woodland.
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Yes you can buy it. it's called "wild garlic". You can often find patches of it growing wild in woodland.
Thank you so much. I'll have to present that to my grandmother in honour of my great grandmother, sometimes soon.
Yes you can buy it. it's called "wild garlic". You can often find patches of it growing wild in woodland.
Thank you so much. I'll have to present that to my grandmother in honour of my great grandmother, sometimes soon.
I think it's asda do a dried variety of it, and they call it garlic leaves. I don't know if that's any use to you, but if you can't find the fresh.
What about street markets? They have those in London don't they? You could ask one of the fruit and veg sellers about it. I expect they'd know better than most supermarkets.
Or as a gift, you could buy her bulbs, and she could grow and harvest her own
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My mum always used to grow garlic cloves in the kitchen every now and then, just by placing the individual cloves (bought from the supermarket) and growing them in a small dish with water. I even used her technique as part of my final year biology science project looking at plant hormones. The garlic stench in the classroom was silent but effective.
She also made her own garlic bread using homemade garlic butter, mixed up in a dish, refrigerated, then served on hot bread. No cheese though. (This was at a time in my life when I hated cheese.)
She also made her own garlic bread using homemade garlic butter, mixed up in a dish, refrigerated, then served on hot bread. No cheese though.
(This was at a time in my life when I hated cheese.)
