Garlic

[Northern Light]

I love garlic, but garlic has ceased to love me.

Poor you!

 

[donna]

I say too bad too. Love garlic in so many recipes.

 

[donna]

Bumping for National Garlic Day, April 19th.

 

[Study the Past]

You can never have enough Garlic, that's for certain, but maybe that's the Italian side of me talking.

Garlic & Mushrooms are our favorite toppings on a pizza, and it's always nice to see places offer fresh garlic as a topping, although it's very hit and miss, sadly.

 

[nitrofd]

My wife makes her own pizza at home and our favorite topping is garlic,onions and leeks.it is a white pizza.

 

[donna]

One of my prized Cookbooks is "Cooking With Garlic". It has wonderful garlic recipes for beef, lamb, pasta, pork, poultry, seafood, sides, and soups.

Two great soup recipes from book are White Bean Soup and Sweet Pepper Garlic Soup. Book is copyrighted in 2001. If any interest in recipes I could PM them.

 

[donna]

It is national garlic day. What would we cooks do without garlic?

 

[Northern Light]

I noticed my garlic is sprouting up in the garden, always a good thing to see!

 

[nitrofd]

It is national garlic day. What would we cooks do without garlic?

I would die,really

 

[mofederal]

I like it, but do not use it a lot. It keeps the vampires at bay. I use it more than the head chef, She uses it sparingly. An interesting history, that I did not know. Thank you @donna for this great thread.

 

[donna]

Time to bump as today, April 19 is National Garlic Day. It is so yummy added to so many recipes.

 

[Stone in the wall]

Time to bump as today, April 19 is National Garlic Day. It is so yummy added to so many recipes.

I"m thankful that you bumped this seems I overlooked it in other years. To me he only thing that even comes close to garlic, is cooking with horseradish.

 

[weasel]

I"m thankful that you bumped this seems I overlooked it in other years. To me he only thing that even comes close to garlic, is cooking with horseradish.

Black garlic is incredible as well. It's got a fantastic umami-ness that isn't quite like anything else.

 

[donna]

Love garlic so thought bump this thread.

 

[donna]

April is garlic month so bringing this thread back up.

 

[KianGaf]

Black garlic is incredible as well. It's got a fantastic umami-ness that isn't quite like anything else.

I've seen it in stores and wasn't sure what to do with it. Is it used in Stir Fry ?

 

[donna]

Black Garlic is garlic that has been aged from 15 to 90 days. It has less a bitter taste. It is used spread on bread, in soups and sauces and can be used to make a vinegar dressing.

 

[Missouri Swampfox]

Then, there's the medical use of garlic that big pharma doesn't want you to know. During the Spanish Flu of 1918 people who worked around mines, tin smelters, anywhere sulfur compounds were present didn't get the flu. Also, in rural areas people wore garlic cloves around their necks, put garlic in their fireplaces and cooked everything with garlic; and they didn't get the flu. Until recently no one addressed why? Then Japanese scientists back in the '80s began to study garlic and other plants that contain organo-sulfur compounds. Guess what? They found those compounds prevented influenza and the common cold. Now, in March of this year a Vietnamese research group found that garlic essential oil prevented SARS2 or Covid-19. Have you heard anything about this in the US? No, because big pharma can't patent plants and make tons of money off them. We still need to pay attention to 3rd world countries and their use of plants. Due to necessity, the Confederates used many indigenous remedies to treat their soldiers and civilians. They even constructed seven laboratories to produce those medicines. We could learn allot from the past and our neighbors in under-developed countries.