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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

No, you quadruple the recipe and thus sixteenruple the garlic

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget to replace most or all of the stock in the recipe with garlic stock, roasted garlic stock

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is garlic stock stock made entirely from garlic? So no onions, carrots, celery, ...?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I just looked at the ingredients for the Better than Bouillon roasted garlic stock and the only veggie in the stock. There are thickeners in the ingredients of that but if you were to make your own you could skip or add other veggies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Garlic is a pain to peel but the more you peel the more worth it it becomes. No pain, no gain.

If a recipe calls for one clove and you peel just one clove then you will hardly taste it. If a recipe calls for one clove and you peel and mince four, then now you can taste it and now it was worth it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If you put pressure on the garlic cloves before peeling then the dry skin will fall off, and the remaining peeling will be very easy. I achieve that by rolling the garlic cloves several times on a hard surface under hard pressure from my hands. Another method with nearly similar results is putting the garlic cloves in a container (empty marmalade jar) and shaking that container vigorously. I prefer the rolling as it works faster and more reliable.

Applies to onions, too, by the way although they need less pressure.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know the tricks, I've been peeling garlic for decades. There's just something really satisfying about thin, visible slices of garlic in some recipes though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

the shaker method is the absolute game changer if you are peeling a lot at once

https://youtu.be/Dc7w_PGSt9Y

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

If you have ingredients other than garlic you do not have enough garlic

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Never trust a recipe, you measure garlic with the heart!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'll be that person then, please don't do this, garlic is disgusting when its more than an accent.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

GARLIC BREAD. garlic knots. fried garlic. garlic confit. garlic parmesan wings. garlic and herb dip. garlic stuffed olives. etc etc etc

one of my all time favorite recipes: fry onions and garlic in a pan and then decide what you're having for dinner.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Here's a killer garlic bread recipe.

Grab a demi baguette from your grocery store's bakery. Cut it in half both lengthwise and crosswise. Throw them on a sheet pan, cut side up. Drizzle with olive oil, season with salt and pepper. Put in the oven at 350 for 12 minutes or so, so that they're lightly toasted and the cut side is crisp. Remove from the oven.

This is where the fun begins. Peel a few cloves of fresh garlic... and rub that shit directly on the baguette. Keep running it across the bread until it is gone. One clove total for a balanced taste of garlic, two cloves total for a strong garlic journey, and one for each piece if you are become garlic destroyer of breath.

Garlic spread? Pre-made frozen garlic bread? All trash. Have this once and I guarantee you will never, ever make any other inferior substitute again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Quadruple? And you call yourself a garlic lover. Poseur.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

People who do this are disgusting. It is ruining the food, it's exactly like the people who let all the ice melt in a drink.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

People having different preferred flavour profiles is a wild concept to you?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Look at this thread. Which one is the different preferred flavour profile?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well the people who aren't Toes in this thread all enjoy more garlic than recipes suggest. So they have a different preference of flavour to Toes. Unless that's what you were trying to imply?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And Toes has a different preference to them all, which is also valid.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You'll note I never made any judgement on their preference :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

That's true

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You and I might as well be worst enemies, then. You can never have enough garlic in the dish, and I let the ice melt because I want more fluids, and chewing on ice is unsatisfying and annoying.

FWIW I mostly do this with tea and juice. Never with carbonated beverages. I prefer them straight out of the fountain/fridge with no ice at all, cause melted ice in soda ruins the taste.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I don't understand ice in drinks at all. It displaces what I want (a delicious cold beverage) with what I don't want (blocks of ice and watered-down drink).

Cold brewed coffee: delicious. Iced coffee: no thanks!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Easy there, partner.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Story time.

When my wife and I were dating and in high school, she decided to cook a meal for her parents. She found a recipe for some kind of baked penne.

My wife's family weren't terribly familiar with making Italian food. They are Pennsylvania Dutch, and her mother wasn't all that interested in cooking. The only garlic my wife ever saw growing up was garlic powder. This was her first time cooking with real garlic. Her mother never bothered because it was too much work.

My wife (well, girlfriend at the time) called me up to tell me she understood why her mother never used real garlic. She said the recipe called for one clove, and "it took forever to peel all those little things".

I had to explain to her that each of those little things were the cloves. What she added to the recipe wasn't one clove of garlic. It was the entire bulb.

There must have been vampires just dropping out of the sky over their house that night.

The smartest thing my dad did in his life was marry my mom. Luckily for me, my wife found inspiration in my mother's cooking. The whole reason she wanted to make the recipe she made was because she wanted to learn to cook like my mom. Over the years she learned my mom's recipes (lots of ethnic food: Italian, Slavic, Greek, Jewish, etc.).

She is still a big fan of garlic, although she doesn't typically include an entire bulb in the recipe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

My MIL did something similar in a soup.

Gotta say, I fucking loved that soup. Had to sleep on the couch for a few days, was 100% worth it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Garlic bread? No, no, sweetie. Breaded garlic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Fried individual cloves, like cheese curds

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Exactly. There is little reason to live without garlic. And the more the better!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Stop giving my fiancee ideas. I'm fucking Italian and even I think she overdoes it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Another good idealist to leave the garlic bigger or cook the garlic less than most recipes state.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I make a shrimp dish that layers all the flavors. Slivers of almost burnt, chunks of well cooked, and slivers of near raw at the end. I love garlic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Sounds awesome. I'm also a fan of garlic confit and black garlic. Have you tried those?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Never had confit but I do like black garlic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is this referring to the standard quadrupling, or does it mean to quadruple the standard quadrupling?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

4 cloves, pfffft. 4 HEADS of garlic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My wife: "Those are rookie numbers"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Are you secretly married to my sister? I just sent her this picture and that was her exact response.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is pretty much my go to. If a recipe calls for 1 clove, u know that person is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Once I had a recipe call for half a clove. Half. A. Clove. If you don't like garlic why put it in the recipe!