I throw it in salt form over french fries and mini pizzas. I use garlic powder on meat loaf and fettucine. I eat it raw. I cannot think of more instances than I have fingers that I’ve refused any dish that had garlic in its name.
I’m surprised more women haven’t run away from me. Though, I haven’t encountered too many vampires since my garlic binge the last few years.
Garlic addicts, or garlicaholics, unite! Si se puede!
Garlic bread=delicious. Garlic enhances the flavor of any non-sweet dish to which it is added, provided that it is added correctly.
Dammit, now I want another sammich.
When I was about 4 months pregnant and just over my morning sickness, I had a taste for garlic. I wanted garlic on everything. And it just so happened, we drove up to Northern California at this time, and we made a little stop in Gilroy, where I came across Pickled Garlic Cloves, which were the most delicious things I had ever encountered in my life. I bought a few jars, and we spent the next few days with friends, where the jars were eventually emptied. And so, on our way home, I bought more. They also threw in a few bags of Roasted Garlic Jelly Belly jelly beans, because no one was buying them, and hey, I was pregnant, and pregnant women will eat weird things.
I still crave those pickled garlic cloves to this day. The jelly beans, not so much–they kind of tasted like the toasted marshmallow ones, with a bit of garlic powder thrown in. Not very impressive.
It’s garlic harvest now, and all around Gilroy Foods on 152, it looks like it’s been snowing as the garlic skins get blown off the trucks, and they gather in drifts along the road.
And the smell!
But… Jelly Belly is making garlic jelly beans? Urff… Garlic ice cream is weird enough. For those that have never had it, it starts out tasting more or less like vanilla, but that soon gives way to a garlic flavor. I love garlic, but garlic ice cream is one of those “OK, cross that off the bucket list!” things after you’ve had a spoonful. (or one of those cute micro-cones that they pass out for free at the Garlic Festival)
Mince fresh garlic (none of that stuff in jars) very finely, mixing it with minced fresh parsley. Sprinkle it on sizzling hot French fries fresh out of the fryer. The heat cooks the garlic a bit to lose some of that raw flavor. Heavenly.
I love pickled garlic so much I used to grow and pickle my own. I really miss that-perhaps I ought to plant some this fall. I put garlic and it’s cousin onion into almost everything that I cook. Delicious! You ought to try garlic jelly and smoked country sausage patties on fresh biscuits. What a snack!