Big day tomorrow! April 19 is National Garlic Day, our annual opportunity to celebrate the stinking rose.
If you're in New York City, you might want to hit the garlic celebration at Broadway Panhandler tomorrow at 1 p.m. Are there other garlic events going on tomorrow that we haven't heard about?
Today's Baltimore Sun has an article about the special flavor of hardneck garlic, while today's Washington Times has a recipe for potato and garlic soup.
We'll be back tomorrow with a review of new garlic gadgets we found at the Housewares Show. If you have garlic related photos, please Flickr them over and we'll get them on the site (here's how).
There's more garlic goodness in our Kitchen archive ...
In that case I'll celebrate by making one of my people's favorite soups--sopa de ajo (garlic soup). It's quite possibly the BEST way to use up stale bread, and despite all the garlic, the breath afterward is not bad at all :)
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I have a stalk of green garlic and a handful of fresh parsley in my CSA box, so I think I'll make a batch of garlic-parsley pesto tomorrow. :)
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Laura, your soup is making me think of a white gazpacho I had a few weeks ago in DC: bread, almonds, garlic. It had that bracing raw garlic flavor, totally diferent flavor than when cooked.
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gochrisgo--I really enjoy white gazpacho! I'm originally from DC, and I have to say (as a Spaniard), it's still my favorite city for Spanish food. Where did you try it?
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Laura, Happy Garlic Day :-)
I wish I could remember the name of the place I had the white gazpacho. It is outside of Chinatown near the new stadium. It is across the street from an interesting Mexican place that opened recently that serves a Mexican-style small bites stuff.
Both are inspiring for recipes to de-code for home cooking. Next time I'm in DC, I'd like to get to both spots again and take careful tasting notes for recipe inspirations.
The white gazpacho does a great job of framing the "bracing" part of the raw garlic flavor.
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