Guides To Garlic Garlic Lovers

Guides to garlic

notyourmomma 16 years ago

Rules from my former cooking teacher, MaryAlice LaForest. (1976 The Stock Pot cooking school)

Never cook garlic fast, never cook it alone.
Chop in a little salt and the pieces won't stick to your knife or your cutting board. The pulverize with the tip of your knife to make it dissolve.
Don't use a garlic press, you lose the best part of the garlic clove.
Garlic should be as fresh as your salad greens. If you let it sit around to long, it becomes dry and tasteless.
Garlic scented fingers: can be sweetened two ways; if odor is fairly mild, rub your fingers with a ripe tomato, which you can use later in a salad; if the scent is very powerful, rub your fingers in cold coffee grounds.

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tnacndn 16 years ago said:

Thanks for the garlic info. I love garlic but have never cooked with it very often, except for garlic salt or garlic powder.

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marges 16 years ago said:

Nice tips, thank for the post.

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divaliscious 16 years ago said:

Also - smashing some garlic cloves into your hot oil - but TAKE it OUT once they start to brown, will give your frying oil a garlic essence - say when you are making chicken cutlets, or like today with my eggplant parm...

2) also another trick is to put your fingers into a cut lemon (so many times they are together in recipes anyhow) and have the lemon clean your fingers - this works really well too!

3) If using cloves of garlic that have already been pealed - not you will have to add at least another clove to get the same result as your garlic that you peal yourself.

4) Mincing the garlic will make it stronger - even in your dishes and sauces, if you slice it large (say like Mario Molto ) -though not as fast as he, we'd be cutting our little fingers off - people can easily identify the garlic culprit and not eat it...

5) any raw sauces like dressings, salsas, brushetta when fresh garlic is used will get way stronger as the dressing start to sit and meld...so when you taste it after you have just made your dish - know that the taste will get stronger in one hour as it sits...

6) Raw garlic clove cut into half - when in a dire emergency with a tooth ache - good way to help the infection to calm down a bit prior to getting yourself to the dentist - just put the cut garlic on the tooth causing you pain - also hot sauce directly put on tooth will help ease pain...

7) want to grow garlic? - grab a full head of garlic - gently break apart, and put into ground in very early spring (now) for august bulbs - bulb with the paper still on into the ground 2 inches in. step on ground to firm...you can use greens that comes up as chives...

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